add to cart
add to wantlist
email a friend
 
PRICE:
$17.00
IN STOCK
01. TOMUTONTTU - Tteema
02. TOMUTONTTU - Kohtublues
03. TOMUTONTTU - Live In EU I
04. TOMUTONTTU - WOW NO OHO
05. TOMUTONTTU - Oksat Pois
06. TOMUTONTTU - Live In EU II
07. TOMUTONTTU - King Of Nu H
ARTIST
TITLE
Tomutonttu
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
FR 066CD FR 066CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/7/2009

Fonal Recods re-releases this long sold-out debut by Tomutonttu, originally released in 2007 by Beta-lactam Ring and previously only available in a 400 copies-only 220 gram vinyl format. Tomutonttu ("Dust Gnome") is a human called Jan Anderzén, a visual artist and the leader of respected avant-garde sound group Kemialliset Ystävät. Toy reed streams, mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are some of the colors used to create the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. It is like a confused and confusing detail of the Kemialliset Ystävät freedom-flow -- a microcosmos of strange sound creatures and dirt flying around in the stereo space, interacting with a logic all of their own. Harkening early electronic experimenters and avant composers of the past such as early Die Tödliche Doris and Meredith Monk, this album is like listening to 500 library records all at once, or walking through a labyrinth of motherboards, or laying on a scientist's table with electrodes attached to your body while you are exposed to every noise, light, and color in their various range of spectrums. Tomutonttu has collaborated live with Mike Bernstein (Double Leopards, Religious Knives), Joshua Burkett, Tara Burke (Fursaxa), The Skaters, Glenn Donaldson (Jewelled Antler), Sami Sänpäkkilä (Es) and Clay Ruby (Davenport), and has recently played a series of concerts for school kids at the planetarium in his home town of Tampere, Finland.