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Päivänsäde
12+ albums
free folknew weird finlandpsychedelicfinnishfree improvisation
about
Päivänsäde was a Finish freak folk improvisational outfit formed in 2004 and split (for recording purposes) about two years later. They featured many members of Finland's other-wordly inner explorers in their time: Niko-Matti Ahti (who has played in Kemialliset Ystävät and Kiila), Avaruuskatti, Pauliina Haasjoki, Pekko Käppi (who has featured in Office Building and Kiila), Laura Naukkarinen (aka Lau Nau and has played in Hertta Lussu Ässä and Kiila amongst others), Sun Pa and Antti Tolvi (Lauhkeat Lampaat and Rauhan Orkesteri). Their sound was all acoustic and deeply primitive, favouring archaic wooden instruments like the jouhikko, an inelegant knee-fiddle, and the kantele, a zither-like construction that generates high stinging tones. Both traditional Finnish instruments, they have roots that reach deep into the soil and a design that facilitates all sorts of rude accidentals. Unlike many of their associates, the currency of the player’s exchange draws most of its logic from free jazz and their dialogues are primarily defined by supernaturally inspired textural congruity, even when it seems that all the players are headed off on mutually incompatible flightpaths. At points on Puhalluspelto, their debut LP, they sound like an orchestra of Don Aylers, firing blue bugle calls into a furnace of drums. Side two’s opener, “Hiljaa Herätään”, sounds exactly like The Shaggs covering Coltrane’s A Love Supreme using only drums, bells and some soft singing strings. Elsewhere the musi
