Kuupuu
and
Tsembla
Thursday June 19 @ 8PM
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark Street
Albany, NY
Kuupuu is a solo-project of Finnish artist/musician Jonna Karanka. She's been involved in such psyche/improv/neofolk groups as Hertta Lussu Ässä, Avarus, The Anaksimandros, Kukkiva Poliisi, Hockey Night, Olimpia Splendid, Way Of The Cross etc. Kuupuu plays partly improvised spooky boogie with tapes, loops, samples, beats, keyboards, effects and voices. Her live sets are time travels through unfound galaxies, deserted huts, nightmares, dirty doghouses, sweet cakes and cranberry lakes - letting the melodies find their own ways and settle or unsettle in the whole. Kuupuu has released records from 2003 onwards on such labels as Dekorder, Time-Lag Records, Cabin Floor Esoterica, Threshold Tapes and Foxy Digitalis. Two latest Kuupuu releases (Sous Juju & Sisar) were released by Japanese EM Records in the summer of 2013. Next Kuupuu 7” will come out this summer from Jan Anderzén’s Vauva label.
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Tsembla is the musical work of Marja Johansson, a Swedish-Finnish artist living and working in Turku, Finland. Utilizing a wide range of instruments, electronics, objects and samples, the music of Tsembla rides on waves of warped melodies, fluttering rhythms, abstract voices and mutating textures, crossbreeding the known and the imaginary. Nouskaa henget (Spirits, rise!, 2013) is her third release, after the 7” Tuplafiesta, released by Jan Anderzén’s Vauva label in 2009 and the LP Fauna on the Finnish Ikuisuus label in 2011. Loosely assembled, rough edged compositions, rich in details, come together into odd instrumental miniatures in an almost-pop format, venturing into fourth world territory from a lattering, wheezing and boiling DIY kitchen inspired by Moondog, Ruth White, Raymond Roussel, LAFMS, Jon Hassell, Anton Bruhin, René Daumal, Suzanne Ciani and folk musics of the Andes and Asia. Two of the tracks on the album are made in collaboration with flute wizard Antti Tolvi (of Rauhan Orkesteri, Lauhkeat Lampaat etc.) layering up Tolvi’s overdubbed flutes with hand percussion, tape snippets and electronics.
KUUPUUhttps://soundcloud.com/kuupuu
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kuupuu/
http://jonnakaranka.tumblr.com/
http://dreck-magazine.co.uk/kuupuu/
http://vimeo.com/64732630
http://vimeo.com/49750677
TSEMBLAhttps://soundcloud.com/tsembla
http://tsembla.bandcamp.com/
http://tsembla.com/
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/tsembla-nouskaa-henget
http://vimeo.com/49947862
SEE YOU THERE!!