''Rakkaus tulessa'' is the thirty-eighth album by Finnish
experimental rock
Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with ...
band
Circle
A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is con ...
, a collaboration with Finnish
electronic music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroa ...
pioneer
. The album was released in July 2011 to coincide with Kurenniemi's seventieth birthday. The vinyl-only album marries together two recordings - vocals by Kurenniemi recorded in 1972, and
Krautrock-style music by Circle from 1999. The two elements were subsequently "mashed-up" (as the sleevenotes describe it) by Circle bassist and bandleader
Jussi Lehtisalo
Jussi Lehtisalo (born 1972) is a Finnish bassist. In 1991, he founded Circle, a prolific band drawing influences from heavy metal and krautrock to develop a style of repetitive experimental rock. He also runs a record label, Ektro Records, releas ...
and longtime Circle sound engineer Tuomas Laurila. The album was co-produced by filmmaker
Mika Taanila
Mika Taanila (born 1965 in Helsinki) is a Finnish film director and visual artist.
His films can be categorized somewhere between the traditions of classic documentary film-making, avant-garde and video art. His most notable films are ''Tectonic P ...
who in 2002 made a documentary film on Kurenniemi, called ''The Future Is Not What It Used To Be''.
Track listing
*A1 Kello 12:15 (9:44)
*A2 Latentti liike-energia (13:50)
*B1 Me-me-me-me (0:46)
*B2 Tuulispää (3:22)
*B3 Valheiden läpi (5:10)
*B4 Kaksi kiveä (13:31)
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Circle (Finnish band) albums
2011 albums