Paavoharju–Laulu Laakson Kukista
The new album by the Finnish group Paavoharju is my clear choice for an album to drive snow covered roads to. Listening to this is like listening to a radio tuned between three stations, where one is playing the most beautiful melodies you have ever heard, another is playing organ music recorded in a gothic cathedral, and yet another is playing nordic-techno. The music is of a crystal fragility, and it is layered beneath dissonant statics and hisses. It is also utterly entrancing. I haven’t heard their first album, but I will. A lovely find.
Italialaisella Laivalla.mp3