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Haltya ~ Book Of Nature :: Exogenic Records
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The name of Haltya has been familiar for years when speaking of the fresh and new forest trance sound from Finland. Now prepare yourself for even more funky and shiny ride as Haltya releases their third album Book Of Nature.
Haltya ~ Book Of Nature
Release date: 13th February 2008
Book of Nature is the 3rd album from the forest trance master Haltya. Ranging from floor filling party stompers (Mean Green Monster Theme) to sophisticated funky arrangements (Borboleta Purpura) this one is wrapped in a most imaginative cover art that reflects straight to the music. This Haltya album is produced by the multitalented producer Tommi Sirkiä alone. Haltya has a firm and solid fan base and Book of Nature will definitely not disappoint them. The two former albums (Forest Flavour & Electric Help Elves) were impressive but this one is taking Haltya to the next level of existence by being super groovy and diverse from the boring lo-fi crap that is sadly so common in the electric music scene these days.
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TRACK BY TRACK:
Nature's Secret
This masterfully tweaked vocal intro enthusiastically jumps you into the mood to enjoy this album to its maximum.
Rainbow Funkster
The first major track of this album lives up to its name... a groovy house bassbeat creates the current for bouncy layers of synth repetitions, licks, and loops which catch you into their rhythm without you noticing it. As fit for a blues club on Friday night as a foresty daytime dancefloor, this retro hippie jam trance makes a great warm-up eye opener.
Finny Funny Finished
"Finny" picks up the pace a bit yet retains that same "live" feel as its forbearer. This track takes a great analog sounding bassline, pairs it with some disco licks, a stomping four on the floor beat, and enough tweaky sound bites put in all the right places and whips it up into a squelchy dancefloor cacophony which really raises the energy level.
Kawaii Bushido
This short, abstract breakdown seems to suddenly snap your psyche into another plane for a few second, leaving your body in suspended animation.
Borboleta Purpura
This is tropical island trance from the get go, with moods of jumping beach parties, drinks with little straw hats, and exotic flowery sexuality spilling out in every direction. At the same time, subtle yet influential, are arrays of alien synth squirts expressing the very same emotions using vastly different mediums. This one grows on you in a big way.
Daisy Chain
Here's a slice of jazzy audio spice for you... Sexy bass percussion accompanies a catchy melody which lures you in and tugs your dance strings easily. A great outdoorsy track great for building up positive energy, with the addition of groovy old-school electric piano for an extra touch of retro groove.
Between The Notes
A minute long breakdown completely foreign to the moods between it jerk your attention without remorse to another plane and other perspectives.
Mean Green Monster Theme
Upon reawakening, you'll feel you're in a vastly different space. "Mean Green" has an epic intro paying tribute to B-movie horror before menacingly launching you into a disturbingly great nighttime trance beat. Glitchy and creepy to the max, the track takes this album from happy nighttime soundscapes to the eerie foresty darkness, and well done at that.
Firecracker
This track is a mind-boggler. Images of neon, video gamey Tokyo futurama come to mind as acid sliced synth static colludes with bit reduced square rhythms. Distended xylophones and other random audio chaos floats through the sound layers as everything you hear gradually becomes more and more nightmarish and twisted upon itself.
Make It Look Like An Accident
Another interlude blurs the images before your ears and teleports you again into a new interplanar audio environment.
Fry
This track of duelling bassbeats seems to be a Mexican standoff of New Orleans jazz maestros. Psychedelic and groovy, this is an electro rump shaker of a musical piece that could easily be performed onstage in smoky alleyway blues joints. A stellar danceable breakbeat holds it all together, constantly refreshing and moving the music along.
Mothership
This psychotropic trance track is a hit on all the intergalactic radio stations. Funky, fresh slap bass licks underlie cloudy layers of echoed synth sweeps and crisp, clear high-hats which vault the ceiling of the soundscape nicely. This track is a definite builder-upper, taking you to uncharted sectors of your mind upon the dancefloor.
Walking on Sunshine
Haltya takes all the best sounds of the seventies' discothèque and reworks them to a degree that can only be achieved through 21st century talent and technology. Here is a creation drawn from the past and the present, fused together to take the listener into their future. This music creates an alien space right here on Earth and lifts you into its clouds.
Exclusive worldwide distribution through Arabesque | www.arabesque.co.uk | mark.bedford@arab.co.uk[/email] |
::PRE-ORDER SPECIAL::
You can order the new Haltya - Book Of Nature for a special price of €12
+ postal charges of €1 Finland / €2 Rest of World.
This offer is good only through 11 Feb, 2008.
To order, please send mail to [email]contact@exogenic.com
Visa, MC, Paypal and Cash Transaction accepted.
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Haltya - Book Of Nature (Exogenic) 2008
For this 3rd Haltya's album ''Book Of Nature'', Tommi Sirkiä, aka Justin Space, Pelinpala, has produced alone (without Jürgen Sachau, aka Outolintu, busy on his side with his solo debut album released in 2007).
Known as a Funkadelik & trancey act, Haltya delivers fresh, melodic, happy dancefloor music ; this new opus is nevertheless the opportunity of integrating a wider range of musical influences.
If you're fond of Haltya, you'll enjoy for sure the artwork which follows perfectly the style exposed since the first album made of forest elements with elves playing music more or less hidden in this nature.
Track 1 is just a quick spoken intro of the album, the music really starts with next track :) .
2 => We've got typical Funkadelik music here : bouncy, bracing with some funny sounds embellishing the whole & a nice deep purring bassline. The rhythmic is somehow sounding Tribal-Housey to me in a midtempo mode.
3 => We gain in speed now , still Funkadelik but with a robotic break from 3''00. The atmosphere is more shaking with a more classical rhythmic.
Track 4 is an experimental transition (which indeed announces a style evolution for the next song ;) ).
5 => Borboleta Purpura is an alchemy of 2 main influences : Samba & Jazz, the whole packed with Suomi spirit. Concretely, the rhythmic is definitively Brazilian. The piano's melody is at first in Samba mode but the second time is Jazzy & finally comes back in its initial way. The bass resonates Jazzy all along. Remain a flood of tones which are common to Suomisound, . The result is unexpected but truly a success.
6 => I need to use my 'Jump o' meter' tool to measure the amplitude of the groove in Daisy Chain : Daisy my little froggie (represented in the top left on the cover of the album). According to Daisy wearing a big smile & climbing at the top of its ladder, all sounds very good :D . But beware the song could reveal also an aquatic & mischievous universe...
Like every 2 songs, now you understood that ... No... it's not the time to go pissing, at least not yet!
It's another sonic transition, weirder & longer than previous one & it's highly probable that the musical direction (clue) will evolve again.
8 => Orchestral opening for Mean Green Monster Machine, which doesn't constitutes not the more classical influenced production but the more psychedelic stuff of the album. Sometimes the orchestral pattern can occur again, in an impromptu way.
Question: Is there still a slice of Funk here?
Reflexion:...hum...
Answer: no slices of Funk as it was eaten by the Mean Green Monster Machine.
Indeed the atmosphere is like being inside a factory with an all robotized equipment & no single presence of human beings, you visit the different parts of the factory with different machines.
9 => We're keep going on Psychedelic but back in Suomisound & spirit. Firecracker is a short tune, very happy & raving. There's something of a Japanese video game musical thema, with peaceful, amusing sides & some rush/tense periods.
Do i really need to introduce this new transition track?
I will only mention a sample sound, which is normally famous to every Psytrance fans who respects himself, the grinding door, that our dear beloved GMS (Shrek tune) have contributed to its notoriety.
11 => Question (from the same person about T8) : It's 2 tracks without any Funk inside, how about this one?
Let's simply say about Make it look like an accident, it's the Funkadelic climax of this album, a fast vigorous, nervous tune with a catchy melody & an avalanche of tones under which you're tottering.
12 => We're going fatter now & the bassline is still nervous. There's a freak atmosphere starting with the break at 3'40 & progressing up to a strong level of musical rave standing. Hopefully the last 1''30 comes back to 'normal'.
13 => A fat production again, that i'd qualify Funky-Jazzy. I enjoy especially how Haltya proceeds here to escape from the break thanks to the creeping bass. The final apotheosis consists in a multi-layered melodic part, a thick one :D.
If you're already an Haltya's fan, this new album is for you without any restrictions.
For the others, if you're into melodic psychedelic music or have nothing against Funk & Suomisound:
Go,Go,Go, Try it,
Buy It,
Enjoy it!
Mark : 9/10
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