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ILTA HÄMÄRÄ - Velloa

Format: 7inch

Label & Cat.Number: Meeuw Muzak MM049

Release Year: 2018

Note: the extraordinary 7" label MEEUW is now based in Brussels and releases this gorgeous EP by the new project of the (now famous) TIMO VAN LUIJK (AF URSIN, ELODIE and many ongoing collaborations) with BART DE PEPE => two tracks of low-fi rumbling, 1000 miles away & strangely filtered psych-drone excess.... the drug-induced 70's re-appear in a strange dreams... probably very limited and pressed on 45 RPM by Hamburg's Ameise

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €7.00

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"After being around for twenty-three years, Meeuw Muzak releases their forty-ninth catalogue number, so time for MM050 being something special, but surely a 7", as Meeuw Muzak releases solely in that format (well, two 10" and a 8" not withstanding, but that was a long time ago). Ilta Hämärä you ask? I asked the same thing, as the over didn't tell me much. The website only gave this sparse note: "Timo
Van Luijk and Bart De Paepe in troubled water". Van Luijk we know as a serious man within the realms of improvised music, and I never heard of De Paepe, who is, apparently also known as Father Sloow, Bart Sloow or simply Sloower, partly because he has a label called Sloow Tapes. I know quite a bit of Van Luijk’s music but this particular enterprise I had not heard before. They have a cassette and LP available and now there is this 7" with two songs. Some tormented slow (sloow?) drum machine, and
much delay and reverb on the guitar, along with some percussive bits, and together they create some highly wacky pop music. Maybe not unlike that of Jonathan Valdez reviewed elsewhere, but Ilta Hämärä don't use any vocals. There is an abundance of sound effects used, adding a sort of psychedelic flavour to the music, maybe the effect of it is a bit murky, troubled water indeed. You could wonder as if this was recorded by a mister nobody anyone would touch it to release it, which actually can be said
of various things I hear every now and then, but given the fact that Van Luijk is slowly becoming a household name, surely this will go down well. Slowed down off side rock music; I love it, but I would also said that if it was recorded by the nobodies." [FdW/Vital Weekly]