芬兰民谣乐队Subaudition的首张大碟The Scope!!
乐队由2个男人组成,Antti Korpinen 负责vocals, acoustic and electric guitars and piano,Roope Niemelä 负责piano, electric guitars, bows, fretless bass, keyboards.
Subaudition – the band’s name has been chosen very carefully by Antti Korpinen and Roope Niemelä. It reflects the mysteriousness of their music, which features not just the clearly apparent sounds, but also a "ghostly play" that develops beyond the readily audible. These are almost dusk-like melodies, created by numerous instruments, tranquil vocals, all woven together by an extraordinary sensitivity.
Following a self-released demo in 2004, the two multi-instrumentalists along with some guest musicians have now recorded their debut album "The Scope" featuring nine harmonious and balanced songs.
"With 'The Scope' we're going right to the core of ourselves," Antii explains self-consciously. "It's all heart-blood." But even he is at a loss when it comes to describe their music just by words. "I'm perfectly aware that these days the term 'cross-over' could be attached to most bands, nevertheless, few of them combine styles on a level as deep as we do," says the young Finnish musician who prefers to conjure images to depict the far-floating sounds of piano, acoustic guitar, saxophone, or Hammond organ. "Imagine a spring morning, how the mist intoxicates you as you walk towards the lake shore. The water surface isn't covered but with a mere inch of ice. You think to yourself that any morning now the ice will be gone, the waters will be flowing boundlessly. As you inhale the cool spring air once again, you realise that the answer has been in plain sight all along - a moment of release."
Already with their demo, SUBAUDITION have garnered comparisons to Sigur Rós and Tenhi -- not, however, because they copy these bands, but because there is a similarity regarding an uncommonly open kind of music. With "The Scope", the two Finnish musicians free themselves effortlessly from any external influences, but on the other hand, they might evoke memories of all those pioneers of music whose interest wasn't in the all too obvious and superficial, but rather in the essence deep below - the "Sub-audible" so to say.
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