Circle
Tower
Last Visible Dog 2007

01. Gerde
02. Gättö
03. Gesterlund
04. Geppänen
05. Gaurila
06. Gehtisalo

Tower is a very good title for an album as detached from reality as this one. A tower is indeed what Circle and Mika Rintala of Verde have done here - they've built this huge tower looming on the horizon, a tower that reaches so high above the clouds and into the quiet infinity beyond, that it's peak can never truly be seen by man. Only imagined. Or talked about in the pub.

It is up there, on the topmost balcony of this huge construction of steel and marshmallows, that Circle and Verde sit around a table, quietly playing cards and sipping tea, while the world so far below them drives itself into confusion. The only sound that these quiet men can hear is the rustling of the cards, the occasional clinks of their warm teacups and the almost inaudible screams of distress echoing from beneath the clouds, where people trapped by genres and unwritten laws of musical expression are trying to claw their way up the impossibly steep walls of pure genius.
-Eetorcelo

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For my record, first time ever, second consecutive post with the same artist(s). Tower should be further proof of how exceptionally versatile the band are, having yet another new sound happening, breaking away completely from the earlier metal-based jams, flirting with guest collaborator Verde (Mika Rintala). Stop heavy guitars, low gothic tones and screaming, and instead play 40 minutes of pure keyboard-battery lushness, which would make any hardass rocker burn his leather jacket, to breathe life with full lungs, in its greater simplicity. Songs float with liquid grace in surreal, colourful, alienistic vistas far beyond the reaches of the mind; beyond genres, classifications, and time-honoured concepts. "Music for the future"...