Various Arktinen Hysteria cd

cd
2001/1961-73
new
Avant garde madness hits Helsinki. Really, the only thing you need to know about this excellent disc is that it has a song made out of burps on it. And if that's not enough to convince you, you should really be shopping someplace else anyhow. But so as not to give short shrift to the rest of the tracks, there's also: mechanical orchestras made out of oscillators & photo-resistors, chicken squawking over piano, plunderphonics, retarded Cream ripoffs, early electronic studio mishaps, nests of commie free jazzers, performance pranksters who like nudity & coffins, dada protests of Finnish presidents or Spiro Agnew, much more. Notes in both English & Finnish, and they basically tell you that Erkki Kurenniemi & Pekka Airaksinen were the hometown champs. Tracklisting: M.A. Numminen/Tommi Parko/Pekka Kujanpaa-Eleita Kolmelle Royhtailijalle, Sahkokvartetti-Kaukana Vaijyy Ystavia, Tommi Parko-Hysteriablues, Erkki Salmenhaara-Information Explosion Prologue, Blues Section-Shivers of Pleasure, Erkki Kurenniemi-Antropoidien Tanssi, Jukka Ruohomaki-Mika Aika On, Jouni Kesti & Seppo I Laine-Vallankumouksen Analyysi, Sperm-3rd Erection, JO Mallander-1962, Sperm-Kuoleman Puutarha Live, Pekka Airaksinen-Pieni Sienikonsertto A Little Soup for Piano and Orchestra, S Albert Kivinen-Spirea.