Cat No:
SRE604LP
Release Date: 07 April 2023
Label: Svart Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 6430080231119
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
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Description
Gargantuan volcanoes erupting with primal force, fountains of molten lava bursting sky high and massive boulders hurtling capriciously through the air. These potent and violently alluring images in the documentary series The Living Planet captivated Raoul Bj?rkenheim's imagination in 1986. The search for a band name had come to an end. -"I was mesmerised. The name Krakatau sounded like a drum fill to me". After studying at the Helsinki Conservatory for a year and the Berklee College of Music in Boston for three, Bj?rkenheim relocated to Finland where he played in bands with Jone Takam?ki, Antti Hytti and Tom Nekljudow, and later went on to work with composer and drummer Edward "Eetu" Vesala (1945-1999). His always original and highly demanding Sound & Fury workshops were a pivotal hotbed in the local improvised music scene, but after four years of Vesala's strict leadership Bj?rkenheim felt a need to leave Sound & Fury behind and direct all of his attention towards Krakatau. The lineup on the first album "Ritual" consisted of reed virtuosos Jorma Tapio and Tapani Rinne, the bassist Sampo Lassila and two drummers, Michel Lambert and Heikki "Lefty" Lehto. "Krakatau's debut album was very challenging to make, as I felt that it might be my one and only chance to record my own music, so I wanted it to be as intense and effective as possible", says Bj?rkenheim, "I was lucky enough to work with an incredibly talented cast of musicians. I can still listen to the album and feel satisfied that it really works. The first guitar solo illustrates what was to become my modus operandi: to try and play the electric guitar in unexpected ways." Svart Records will release an expanded double LP version of Krakatau's Ritual. Limited to 500 copies and due out on March 24th, the album contains an album's worth of previously unheard material recorded in 1987 in Studio Helsinki and at the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation studio. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Foot Talk
- 2. La Lluana
- 3. Matinaal
- 4. Epilog
- 5. Go
- 1. Dog Honk
- 2. Ritual
- 3. What?
- 4. New Day
- 5. Ray
- 1. Helsinki Delta Blues
- 2. Dig Hunk
- 3. Threatening Clouds
- 4. Freerokk
- 1. N'Baoudi
- 2. Nooah
- 3. Ritual
- 4. Villin raskas
Disc 1
Side 1
Side 2
Disc 2
Side 3
Side 4
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