Drone Records

TIERMES - Malahvia

Format: CD-R

Label & Cat.Number: Saaren Levy

Release Year: 2006

Note: lim. ed. hand-finished cardboard case with tarpaper and rope shield, & large b/w poster with print on both sides

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €10.00

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Die finnischen Psychonauten sind zurück mit einem aufwendig verpackten Release (dickes schwarzes Ölpapier, grosses Poster), der sich auf über 70 Minuten in 3 langen Teilen ausbreitet.... zu hören gibt es trancige handgespielte Bass / Rhythmus-Strukturen a la EARTH & SUNN O))), aber auch weitflächig softe drones bestimmen das Bild, zentral ist das dritte ca. 40 minütige “Kan” welches mysteriöse Echo-Klänge mit metallischen Gong-Drones verbindet, super !
Far far away from daily reality !

“package : hand-finished cardboard case with tarpaper and rope shield.
extras : large b/w poster with print on both sides.
status : 1st edition of 653 copies, currently available.
genre : ritual music, dark ambient
Malahvia, the latest effort in series of audio releases by the performance and music group Tiermes, is presented after six years of intense experimenting and research on the fields of ethno-pharmacology, -botany and ritual behavior during Fennoscandian prehistoric age. As a result, not being only a piece of sonic art, Malahvia can also be considered as a fine example of modern archeology, through which an idea and feel of what is beyond all things mortal is intelligently forwarded closer to the level of everyday life and death.
Even if Malahvia, compared to the earlier releases, has a far more developed concept and sonic shape – it certainly is, as are all works by Tiermes, a strong manifestation on behalf of the use of sound as an instrument of transcendence. The group’s continuous devotion to create art through an experience, has proved to be the only way to find such essential emotions and dimensions that label the presence known as
Tiermes. And as a present day example - Malahvia makes no exception.” [label info]
"It's been several years since we last heard from Finland's mysterious drone ensemble Tiermes, and even then it was an ultra limited (100 copies) cd-r packaged with a sheet of rusted metal. So odds are a lot of folks have yet to discover the mystickal black drone beauty of Tiermes. So a last here we have their only actual in-print cd release and it's nothing short of astounding. Again lovingly hand packaged, this time the cd is housed in a thick cardstock sleeve, wrapped in an unbelievably gorgeous two sided poster (so ultra detailed and intense, very reminiscent of Nick Blinko's artwork for Rudimentary Peni), the whole thing wrapped in thick black paper and tied up with twine. A dark and mysterious package that perfectly reflects the music within. Three lengthy tracks, the first, a glistening shimmer of minimal drone, like delicate layers made up of the overtones of struck bells or Tibetan bowls, a slowly radiating reverberation, that drifts and fades, like ripples in a black pond. The second track hints at Tiermes mainman Jussi Saivo's Finnish rock pedigree (early soundman for Circle, member of
Circle side-project Ovalki as well as one half of Temple Of Tiermes with a member of Finnish doom band Unholy!) with ten minutes of ultra distorted electric bass, and a strange minimal squelchy rhythm, very Circular and hypnotic, the same figure repeated over and over. a gorgeous ultra simple meditation in dirge drone. Might hit the spot for adventurous SUNNO))) / Earth / Boris / Corrupted fans. The final track is a massive 40 minute track, or shimmering crystalline drone, very similar in makeup to the first track, but stretched even further out, with even more overtones and distant drones added to the mix as well as some strange minimal percussion. A truly otherworldly ambience, darkly dreamy and absolutely lovely. As beautiful and breathtaking as anything by Chalk, Coleclough, Basinski, Mirror, Monos, Ora or any of our other favorite dronologists." [Aquarius Records]