Pori

Pori is much more than just the fifth studio album by the Finnish experimental-rock institution Circle. It's also the name of a small post-industrial city near the Gulf of Bothnia, where Jussi Lehtisalo founded the group in 1991. In some senses, the music mirrors the character of the metropolis itself: tranquil, historic, and slightly monotonous but belied by grit, weirdness, and surprising artistic fertility. When it initially appeared on the Metamorphos label in 1998, Pori represented the pinnacle of the band's relatively subdued and polite mid-'90s output, summarizing and improving upon several years of dalliances with prog, electronic, and ambient aesthetics. For this conceptual suite of tracks titled for hometown monuments and events, Circle fused the aforementioned genres and sporadically jolted them with the higher voltage of its earliest efforts. Nowhere is this clearer than on the jackhammering, one-chord "Back to Pori," powered by Lehtisalo's Gregorian vocals and Janne Peltomäki's immense, stuttering drums. Amazingly enough, this pivotal work has remained unavailable for at least a decade.

1: Perustamisasiakirja 8. 3. 1558
2: Vesitorni/Kaupunginsairaala
3: Back to Pori
4: Suurpalo
5: Kartano
6: Promenaadikeskus
7: Kruunu Paaha Pori Kuningas
8: Seisomakatsomo
9: Karhun Kansaa 1
10: Porin Jazzjuhlat-65

Number of Discs: 1

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