Rihmastossa, by Shakali

Rihmastossa

by Shakali

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Pre-order of Rihmastossa. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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releases May 3, 2024

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Includes digital pre-order of Rihmastossa. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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1.	Ensisäie 04:09	buy track
2.	Juoluat 07:03	buy track
3.	Rihmastossa
4.	Mātuhituhi
5.	Alin Nila
6.	Vaskitsa
7.	Aihkimännyt 07:58	buy track

about

Based in the South Moravian city of Brno, Finnish multi-instrumentalist Simo Hakalisto aka Shakali crafts surreal terrariums of strings, synthetics, wood, and wind, teeming with bio-electronic synchronicities. Rihmastossa further finesses the project’s eclectic lexicon of electro-acoustic world-building, utilizing a gallery of instruments both ancient and advanced: solar-powered sine wave generators, singing bowls, metallophones, microtonal synths wired into tree slabs, lap harps, amplified found objects, percussion filters, flutes.

This is world music in the most naturalistic sense – subtle spatial ecosystems of climate, vibration, landscape, and species, as alluded to in the track titles about fungal colonies, extinct birds, rare worms, and pine forests. Hakalisto’s work in various exploratory duos (Gnäw, Lunar Horns, Thistle) has honed his instincts for atmospheric improvisation, but when alone he embeds even deeper into the terrain, acting as conduit as much as creator. Across seven free-flowing fugue states of texture and resonance, his touch simmers beneath the surface, guided by shifting light and hidden hands.

credits

releases May 3, 2024

Written, performed and produced by Simo Hakalisto.

Instrumentation: Meng Qi Wing Pinger, Soma Terra, Tocante Phashi, 5-string and 15-string Kantele, Tocante Karper, Meng Qi Wingie II, Moog Matriarch, modular synthesizer, Gendèr, field recordings, found objects, Critter & Guitari Organelle, percussion, flutes.

Soprano Saxophone on 1, 4, 7 by Julian Overall.
Singing Bowl on 5 by Matěj Kotouček.

Mastered by Jared Carrigan.
Design by Britt Brown.

ADDITIONAL TAPES AVAILABLE SOON FROM:

Revolver USA
midheaven.com/item/shakali/rihmastossa

Kankyo (JP)

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Shakali Brno, Czechia

शाकलि
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Live:
26.5. Bratislava (T3)

30.5. Prague (Punctum)
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simo.hakalisto(a)gmail.com

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