pekka airaksinen “one point music” long playing record

• pleni sienikonsertto • a little soup for piano and orchestra op 46,8 (1970)
  
• mo-on-ing (1971)
  
• sadetta • somerain (1968)
  
  
• music for the play sisyfos (1968)
  
  skata
  s rock
  fos 2

o records press release...

pekka airaksinen one point music orolp-035 pekka airaksinen started making music in the late 1960's group the sperm who combined performance art with experimental music of the day. on their records influences such as john cage, karlheinz stockhausen, free jazz and psychedelic pop were filtered into rough anti-music that resembled the early industrial music and noise that would emerge elsewhere in the world some ten years later. in the early 70's when the sperm had withered away, pekka airaksinen became a buddhist and stopped releasing music for almost a decade. airaksinen, who was regarded as a recluse, returned to the public eye in the mid-80's under his own name and with a brand new but equally futuristic vision. his album buddhas of golden light is an incredible mixture of sun ra’s cosmic free jazz and twisted rhythms programmed on a roland 808 drum machine. at the end of the decade techno elevated the 808 to a fetish object and airaksinen disappeared for another five years. in the 90's airaksinen released a large number of cd's and cd-r's on his own dharmakustannus label, on which the style of each track varied wildly - breaking every rule of the niche-group marketing concepts of the era. all his recordings, whether they are his unique interpretations of contemporary music, new age, ambient house or jazz, are characterized by a sense of improvisation and casual roughness that is rare in electronic music. the most avant-garde pieces of his recent output continue his earlier work with the imaginary "anthropoid music" of the future. one point music is his shining moment. originally pressed in an edition of 120, this reissue has been needed for a long time.

the sperm “shh !” long playing record

• heinäsirkat ("locusts") (16:10)
  
• korvapoliklinikka hesperia ("ear clinic hesperia") (3:50)
  
  
• jazz, jazz (8:45)
  
• dodekafoninen talvisota ("dodecaphonic winter war") (11:45)

de stijl press release...

sperm shh ! ind 039 lp it's taken a long fucking time, and finally, a fully legit lp ~ only reissue of this amazing helsinki monsterpiece from 1970. shh ! is highly collectable in it's original form on the band's own o records imprint (home of 3rd erection, samsa trio, one point music, etc). in a non ~ dream state, i've seen 2 copies and both were in a condition slightly more well kempt than "hammered ++" .. shh ! is primarily a document of pekka airaksinen's experimental compostions, consisting of primitive samples, guitar loop feedback and musique concrete. probably inspired by a cage / stockhausen / et al, but actually more easily peeped in pre ~ lafms world, perhaps sitting aside ju suk reet meate's do unseen hands make you dumb?. also involved were jan olof mallander, who has been active in and around art in several roles; as the editor of iris, writing reviews for hufvudstadsbladet, contributing to taide, and as the art critic of dagens nyheter. inspired, perhaps, by gordon matta clark's food he converted his cheap thrills gallery into a restaurant and instead of art, served the public vegetarian and macrobiotic cuisine.. and mattijuhani koponen, a poet, composer, musician, painter, photographer, performance artist, a gardener, activist in men's postmodern liberation movement (the what?!), he was the primus dramatic motor for the sperm. in december of 1968, during a symphonic poem of reconciliation made by cain and abel, he fucked atop a grand piano and, for it, spent 8 months in the clink. aside from serving a brief stint in wigwam, i know little of vladimir nikamo but his presence makes sense; wigwam's first lp is titled hard n' horny. you get the idea. ooh la la..