Kruununhaan Dynamo

Kruununhaan Dynamo

Genres: psychedelic, experimental, finnish, Avant-Garde, acoustic

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About Kruununhaan Dynamo

Love Records was one of the labels in Finland involved with the changes of the times in Finland. Like in Denmark (hippie movement), and somewhat in Scandinavia (more jazz-rock/freaky long tracks) also Finland adapted their own more sparsely spread weird and freak-out movement. What the compilation showed was not the immediate going for the kill, but some moments where serious non-serious music crossed a border. But these are also the least attractive moments of sing-a longs and parodies with the standards. Much more interesting and really convincing were the psychrock freakouts with heavy fuzz, bluesy or a few times jazzy jams and wild screams, from pop to heavier Americanised rock, shown on several tracks on CD1 (including Wigmam, Charlies, Baby Grandmothers, Apollo, Hector,.. besides a different, eastern folk improvisation by Pekka Streng). I very much loved the post Pink Floyd inspiration of Blues Section. I also chose for airplay the spiritual-psychedelic intro by Topmost. The second album shows a different side. The psych-folk freaks sounds as if this was predating the Finnish freak-folk movements of today, in a more primitive and unstructured way. Very interesting here were Those Lovely Hula Hands, a band who only released two singles and of which two tracks and a rewarding unreleased live track was included. The early tracks reminded me a bit of the Swedish Algärnas Trädgard. Appe Vanajas was involved in this as well as in the band The Sperm, also included. Comparable to Those Lovely Hula Hands as folk psych hippies were Kruununhaan Dynamo with an excerpt of a recording where the band jams thinking they are stoned native Indian singers with hand percussion and flute, and Skiött of which two long tracks were added, of which the first is less interesting musically, but of which the second is more enjoyable and interesting as a tripped out tribalistic amateuristic hippie jam. Also included on the second CD were two more avant-garde experiments with exaggerated space effect vibrating reverb and guitar, endlessly stretched and taking its time, again a bit too nowhere land and primitive to sound really ground breaking, while historically and locally they made a statement. Alone for the rather complete recordings of Those Lovely Hula Hands this second CD is already worth checking out.

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