Holy grail? Perhaps for some. This is a monumentally important LP. Can’t believe I saw it in someone’s collection a few years ago when he was unloading his collection of albums that were alluded to on the infamous Nurse With Wound List…
“Pekka Airaksinen started making music in the late 1960s with the group the Sperm, combining performance art with experimental music of the day. With influences such as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, the Sperm combined free jazz and psychedelic pop to create a sound resembling early industrial music and noise. After the Sperm’s breakup in the ’70s, Pekka Airaksinen became a Buddhist and would stop releasing music for almost a decade. Airaksinen, who was regarded as a recluse, returned to the public eye in the mid-80s under his own name and with a brand new but equally futuristic vision. His album Buddhas of Golden Light is an incredible mixture of Sun Ra’s cosmic free jazz and twisted rhythms programmed on a Roland 808 drum machine. At the end of the decade techno elevated the 808 to a fetish object and Airaksinen disappeared for another five years. In the ’90s Airaksinen released a large number of CD’s and CD-R’s on his own Dharmakustannus label, on which the style of each track varied wildly – breaking every rule of the niche-group marketing concepts of the era. All his recordings, whether they are his unique interpretations of contemporary music, new age, ambient house or jazz, are characterized by a sense of improvisation and casual roughness that is rare in electronic music. The most avant-garde pieces of his recent output continue his earlier work with the imaginary ‘anthropoid music’ of the future. One Point Music is his shining moment.” – InSound
“Pekka Airaksinen’s work with The Sperm has been previously documented here. Released two years after SHH!, ONE POINT MUSIC finds Airaksinen (assisted by A. Deblus and Antero Helander) still very much in experimental mode. Actually, this material was all recorded from 1968 to 1970, during Airaksinen’s tenure with the Sperm. It also was primarily created in his converted sauna studio. Mostly featuring electric organ, guitar, and bass (though the source of most of the sounds is pretty hard to determine), these six tracks are mostly lighter in tone than SHH!, but they still feature plenty of unexpected and even jarring moments. The opening track (bearing the ponderous title “Pieni Sienikonsertto – A Little Soup for Piano and Orchestra op. 46.8”!) does indeed feature a piano off in the distance; however, it is obscured by some odd metal clangs and random bursts of strange noises (including some backwards guitar). “Somerain-Sedata” and “Skata” bear the closest comparison to Airaksinen’s former group, consisting mostly of heavily effected and echoed guitar sounds. The remaining three tracks sound even more like industrial music that The Sperm ever did (and again, before the term was even coined), while also veering close to the likes of Smegma and Birgé-Gorgé-Shiroc in the ’70s strangeness department. Sadly only ever pressed in a run of 120 copies(?!?!), this is nearly impossible to find and sorely in need of a reissue. Until then, this will continue to be a mostly unheard masterpiece.” – Another World Of Sound
Pekka Airaksinen
One Point Records
(O Records, 1972)
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01. Pieni Sienikonsertto – A Little Soup For Piano And Orchestra Op 46,8 (1970)
02. mo-On-ing (1971)
03. Sadetta – Somerain (1968)
04. Skata
05. S Rock
06. Fos 2 [MP3]
