Alamaailman Vasarat

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Alamaailman Vasarat
Jarno Sarkula at the 2009 Roskilde Festival
Jarno Sarkula at the 2009 Roskilde Festival
General information
origin Finland
Genre (s) Progressive metal , folk rock , experimental metal
founding 1997
resolution 2014
Last occupation
Jarno Sarkula
Jarkko Niemelae
Miikka Huttunen
Tuukka helmets
Violoncello, theremin
Marko Manninen
Santeri Saksala
former members
Drums
 Teemu Hänninen
Erno Haukkala

Alamaailman Vasarat was a Finnish progressive metal and folk rock band that was formed in 1997 and split up in 2014.

history

The band was founded in 1997 by the multi-instrumentalist Jarno "Stakula" Sarkula and the drummer Teemu Hänninen as a side project to their former group Höyry-Kone . The cellist Marko Manninen, also Höyry-kone, the organist Miikka Huttunen and the trombonist Erno Haukkala joined as further members. After a few months the line-up had expanded. In 1998 the band wrote new material before producing a soundtrack for a short film later that year. In 1999 the band began to perform for the first time. From the year 2000 the group held regular international concerts. In the same year the debut album Vasaraasia was released , which was followed by Käärmelautakunta in 2003 . In 2005 Kinaporin Kalifaatti , a collaboration album with singer Tuomari Nurmio , was released. The band also contributed film music for the film Elukka , which won the prize for best film music at the French festival Premiers Plans d'Angers in 2006. The 2007 album Maahan was released in both Europe and Japan . In summer 2008 the band played in Canada at the Mission Folk Music Festival , the Sziget Festival in Hungary , the Bardentreffen in Germany , the Musicas do Mar Festival in Portugal and the Ethnomechanica in Russia . Her next album Huuro Kolkko was recorded in Italy at the end of 2008 , before it was released in April 2009 in Finland, Central Europe and later in Japan on P-Vine Records . In the same year, the band played in Portugal in Sines and was also to be seen at various festivals: For example, they were at the Midnight Sun Festival in Sodankylä , Finland , the Roskilde Festival in Denmark , the Duo Music Exchange in Japan and the Festival Internacional de Puebla in Mexico . At the beginning of May 2010 the live DVD Haudasta lomilla was published. The DVD contains five hours of live material, music videos , short films and animations. In August of that year, the band also released the iPhone game HammerBlast . In the same year Alamaailman Vasarat played at the MADE Festival in Sweden and the Colors of Ostrava in the Czech Republic . Towards the end of the year Santeri Saksala joined as the new drummer. Festival participation followed in 2011 by playing among others in Portugal at the Gouveia Art Rock Festival and in France on Rock in Opposition . Then she held two concerts with Värttinä in Tokyo. A first tour of France was then completed in September before the group played at the World Music Expo in October . In 2012 the band was booked in Germany for the Fusion Festival and the national Kaustinen Music Festival . At the beginning of May of the year the next album Valta was released in Scandinavia before it was released in the central parts of Europe in the summer. With Jarkko Niemelä ( trumpet , alto horn ) a new musician can be heard. In 2014, Alamaailman Vasarat disbanded. In their career the band has also performed at other festivals such as the FMM Festival das Musicas do Mundo (Portugal), the Stranger Than Paranoia ( Netherlands ), Rudolstadt Festival (Germany), the Urkult Folk Festival (Sweden), the NEARfest ( USA ) as well as the Finnish festivals Ruisrock , Provinssirock and Ilosaarirock . The band also played in the Tokyo jazz club Pit Inn .

style

Hugues Chantraine from progarchives.com described the music as a mixture of Miriodor , Samla Mamma's Manna or all developments that would have occurred up to the founding of Von Zamla . The band also incorporated musical influences from Roma culture . In addition, the group occasionally plays a kind of "acoustic death metal ". Allmusic's Geoff Orens described the group's music as avant-garde , having been influenced by klezmer and other forms of European folk music . It is performed with the ferocity of a metal and punk band. The band forego most major keys and the use of guitars. Instead, instruments such as a harmonium, a saxophone and a distorted-sounding cello would be used. The songs mostly have a basic rhythm that is similar to that of the polka and bossa nova areas . However, the band speed up the songs and add a primitive sounding drumming game.

Pete Pardo of seaoftranquility.org wrote in his review of Käärmelautakunta that you can hear progressive music that is very different from other representatives of the genre. This is particularly noticeable through the lack of guitars, the otherwise great wealth of different instruments and the aggressive sound. Alamaailman Vasarat is not at all like a group like After Crying . Rather, you play a strange mixture of traditional Finnish acoustic music and heavy metal , with the mood fluctuating between romance and brutality. Pardo also heard similarities with Gentle Giant , King Crimson , Black Sabbath , Candlemass and Frank Zappa as well as influences from Doom Metal , Speed ​​Metal and Jazz . Thoralf Koß from musikreviews.de described the material on Maahan as "insane music that sounds like it is being played by musicians who have fallen out of madness". Despite the lack of guitars and the string, percussion and wind instruments used for them, as well as a pump organ, it is not about " Dixieland good-mood music" or " Oktoberfest music", but rather the progressive attempt to create a " To create a connection between punk, folk and world music as well as klezmer, jazz and psychedelic ”. The music sounds as if King Crimson had decided to only use the said instruments. Characteristic is also a "[k] omplex hardness, melodic rhythm lines, excessive desire to experiment, [a] diabolical noise against heavenly piano passages and a good portion of fun and wildness when dealing with the diverse instruments, which are used to all imaginable limits" . David Smith from musicisgood.org also noted in his review of Valta the fluctuation between metal, folk and jazz as well as the variety of different instruments. All of this is held together by a structure that resembles progressive rock .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Kinaporin kalifaatti
  FI 8th 11/2005 (9 weeks)
Valta
  FI 50 19.2012 (1 week)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Geoff Orens: Alamaailman Vasarat. Allmusic , accessed August 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Rock In Opposition festival Maison de la Musique, Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garric (Carmaux), Tarn, Occitanie, France. 4th Rock In Opposition festival 16-17-18 / 09/2011. post-rock.lv, accessed August 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b BIOGRAPHY. vasarat.com, archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; accessed on June 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Achim Breiling: Alamaailman Vasarat. babyblaue-seiten.de, accessed on August 10, 2018 .
  5. ^ Hugues Chantraine: Alamaailman Vasarat biography. progarchives.com, accessed August 10, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Pete Pardo: Alamaailman Vasarat: Kaarmelautakunta. seaoftranquility.org, accessed August 12, 2018 .
  7. ^ Thoralf Koß: Alamaailman Vasarat: Maahan (Review). musikreviews.de, accessed on August 12, 2018 .
  8. ↑ David Smith: Review: Valta by Alamaailman Vasarat. musicisgood.org, accessed August 12, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Chart sources: FI