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Of course TENHI didn´t stop their mysterious course with their unforgettable, overwhelming album “Kauan”, and they decided to twist their music a bit and manufacture some stuff absolutely astonishing and inhuman (in the strict sense of the word) as this MCD. It goes beyond “Kauan”, but “Airut: ciwi” is not in the same vein, it´s much darker and folk-ish, with different percussion arrangements and deeply weird and haunting. It´s the spirit that is different. Voices, for example, have been covered by a layer of occult feeling, and the same for the music itself. The first song “Tuulennostatus” is sort of a ritual chant clad in a gloomy mist, emanating off the speakers when you play the MCD. After this shocking blow of darkened spellcraft, “Kielo” (a discarded song from the “Kauan” sessions, if I´m not wrong) grabs your head and puts it into the cold waters of a lake you have never noticed before, in an intensely ravishing baptism of ice and cold winds, whispered through the northern forests. And the last, third track, “Ciwenkierto”, brings on some shamanic resonance, and its highly hypnotic rhythm traps me totally in conspiracy with shivers through my spine. The layout is utterly misty, being the cover art almost entirely ruled by black. Lyrics, as you might guess, are in Finnish and translated in the booklet, and they deal mainly with nature, that entity which seems to have inspired these Finnish, touched by the hands of artistic grace. Without a doubt one of the most interesting bands of the scene nowadays. Turn off the lights and drown into “Airut: ciwi”: northern dark folk for your innocent ears.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Tuulennostatus |
| 2. Kielo |
| 3. Ciwenkierto |
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