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PAAVOHARJU

LAULU LAAKSON KUKISTA

By David Day

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GENRE | FINNISH PASTRY

VERDICT | DARK, CRISPY

RELEASE | 7.22.08

LABEL | FONAL

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Consider this a ballet about a building. Bubbling up from rural Finland, Fonal is one of the finest boutique labels on the planet. Of all their strange and wonderful sounds, Paavoharju is by far the loveliest ... and the hardest to describe. Dowerbirds mourning the sunrise? A waterbug skimming a zero-gravity liquid bubble? The unveiling of the Milky Way from a nighttime thundercloud? It's warped-wood ambient beats and backwards static and the sound of rain. Two brothers (Lauri and Olli Ainala) make up the core of the combo, but occasionally the dark and delicate cooing of one Leena Uotila breaks through like a time-lapse bloom. That the entire album is composed and sung in Finnish (a language of which I admittedly know not a single word), does draw comparisons to Icelandic-speaking Sigur Rós, but the two are actually quite different. This is digital folk music from the other side of the world.

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