Älymystö – new web page, free goodies!

November 23, 2008 · Posted in Band Projects · 1 Comment

Just a short note – our band Älymystö has a new web page. It was far more than just a simple facelift, since there’s a on of material that has previously been scattered around the net or on their way to oblivion as old computer hard drives gave up the magic smoke.

So, here’s some of the stuff you can find – more info in the official release notes:

Downloadable songs and the Atomgrad-album as a torrent. We firmly believe in the “try before you buy” philosophy of music sales. So download the songs, listen to them and if you want to compensate us for our efforts, head over to the shop.
Our first music video!
Lyrics, up on the net for the first time.
A shitload of photos from our adventures.
A band bio with information about us merry gentlemen.

Ok, ok – here’s the video embedded. Sorry for the errors in the grammar, it was too late to fix them.

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Radiokatve Jam Session

August 19, 2008 · Posted in Band Projects · Comment

Our band projects Älymystö and Radiokatve have been leading a rather quiet time for the last year or so, for various reasons. With Älymystö we are still working on the new release, but for Radiokatve Ripa and I have been too busy. We would have had a gig last spring, but I happened to get a nasty goddamn ear infection from diving. Playing on a noise gig with an ear that’s too painful to even touch, nooot a fetching idea.

Today we finally managed to kick together a jam session in Ripa’s place. Ripa had replaced the handheld radio with a bigger one and he had rigged a metal bowl on a stand, which made nice and haunting noises when played with a violin bow.

Well, playing takes practice – news at eleven. What I got out of the theremin sounded godawful at first. We played for or five pieces, which we also recorded. The last two started sounding bearable. I managed to find singing birds from the theremin for one of them and cavey windy sounds for the latter. Who knows, maybe we’ll manage to come up with some kind of an EP or something before the end of the year.