Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa

by Kemialliset Ystävät

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Death Itself Honestly cannot say it enough...one of the best albums I've heard beginning to end.

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Matt Misso get the vinyl. Highest possible recommendation. Favorite slab in my collection. The label even replaced my digital download. I pray for more of these

ian lepp My poor words cannot do justice to your masterpiece. I look forward to more amazing music in future but take however long you need to make it so special. Ian Lepp

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1.	Alempana Kuin Enkelit 03:35	buy track
2.	Arkistorotat / Risuilla Täyteyssä Salissa 04:28	buy track
3.	Nijura 04:07	buy track
4.	Roiske Ruudukolla 01:45	buy track
5.	Naderbux & Sundergrund 04:55	buy track
6.	Vettä Yarahille 07:07	buy track
7.	Hetkinen 02:33	buy track
8.	Ei Millään Kielellä 04:39	buy track
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Jan Anderzén and his partners celebrate the transcendental power of ecstatic music. Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa is the first Kemialliset Ystävät album in four years. It is the result of chance enhancing online collaboration methods, desire to get lost in the sound archives and the high art of meticulous editing. The album title is from visions of rivers running down from Heart of Darkness to the City of Joyful Noise. If contemporary music is a high speed train passing by then KY's music would be an orgy of light under a railway bridge.

A band member Lars Mattila experiences the music of Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa in spatial terms:

”There are worlds accessed only through our auditory system. I hear a Wunderkammer of freestanding sound objects. Rhythms like sequences of seemingly random stuff laid out on the forest floor: a pair of thrones, a Henry Moore sculpture, a watermelon, two thrones, a Moore sculpture, a melon... I trust the path to go on even if I can't see behind the hill. There's motion, wether it be drunk driving or super human rapid eye movement. The sheer amount of detail makes it impossible to take everything in at once. One's perception and shifting focus reshape the experience on each listen. I remember my visit to Cappella Palatina in Palermo where Normann architecture, Arabic arches and Byzantine dome form a harmonious whole. Various cultural and spiritual influences are recognized as equals. The sense of space also brings to mind the end scene of The Lawnmower Man when the dude is trying to escape the virtual world.”

2012 - 2013

JAN ANDERZÉN
JEREMY COUBROUGH
LARS MATTILA
MARJA JOHANSSON
NIKO-MATTI AHTI
JOSHUA STEVENSON
ROOPE ERONEN
JEFFREY ALEXANDER
STEVEN WARWICK
LAURENT GERARD
GOODIEPAL
JIMMY VIRANI

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released May 12, 2014

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