ZetaBoo
MediZine (Aito)
16.99
Experimental music from Finland features bassist Pekka Lehti (Värttinä), Anna-Mari Kahara (accordion), Jarmo Saari (theremin, keyboards, vocorder, guitars) and Marko Timonen (drums, percussion). Quirky to say the least, this Finnish band drifts thru reggae, rock, jazz, folk roots and fronds and a distinctly late-60s, early seventies pop sound. The vocals are edgy, odd (and in Finnish), and everything develops a familiar feel (Zappa, Frampton, Veloso, Lo Jo) that suddenly takes an unexpected turn into the completely original.
Listen to "Tonto"
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| "[MediZine] is finely crafted, melodic, and often accordion driven. Beginning with reverse haiku joiks and moving on to synthetic vocals, the mood softens smoothly yet swings schizophrenically. The rugged, theremin infiltrated "$$$" could be the film score for "James Bond On Jupiter." "Tonto" is reminiscent of Lhasa's "De Cara La Pared"; "Hiisi-Dickens" evokes The Progmatics (with whom Timonen has played) or Jimi Hendrix as polska. In "Gecko II," you've got the tropical, electro-voice of the vocorder and a lot of other stuff. Stuff is the word. Zetaboo has a lot of inventive stuff here. Somewhere on "Gekko II," the vocorder becomes a chicken's voice!... The jazz and easy harmonies could send Coltrane resistors diving under the table at select moments. Not everyone will like this album, but then some will like it a bunch." - Judith Gennett, Hollow Ear |
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