Es
A Love Cycle
Fonal 2006

01. Suuri Höyhen
02. A Love Cycle
03. Les Fleurs Sont des Bonnes Auditrices
04. We Make Holes in the Heart to Break Universe Apart
05. Twenty-Five Twenty-Five
06. She Puts Out the Fire in Her Heart With Her Tears

Originally released in 2001, A Love Cycle is the second 'Es' album, but to beef up this re-issue a little Sänpäkkilä has added an extra track, the gorgeous 'Suuri Hoyhen' which appeared on a compilation/sampler also in 2001. It's been out of press for far too long now, and since interest had grown in Sänpäkkilä's works significantly recently, it seemed like the perfect time for a reissue. Perhaps surprisingly the disc still sounds as fresh as ever; put together almost entirely using three cheap flea-market turntables and a pile of decaying vinyl, Jeck and Marclay style, but Sänpäkkilä injects his own personality into the loops and crackle. His homespun aesthetic is as present here as on his choice of releases for Fonal, beautiful ethereal humming erupts over bassy rumbles and disconcerting static while distortion cracks and crumbles overhead. I suppose many would describe 'Es' as ambient music, but there is more going on here than may at first reveal itself: within these loops rest hidden glimpses of love, for music, for art, for the process itself, and that's what makes Sänpäkkilä's work so damn involving. An essential part of the Fonal catalogue.
-John Twells

>> evil (68mb) (d-_-b)
>> love it, buy it (Juno)

So basically a theme album of looping "lovecycles", as Sami likes to call his customised turntables, originating from the 50s and 60s. "Some of the sounds are from my own records and guitar playing, mostly from old vinyls. I try to use records that when played normally will sound very neutral. One vinyl I used a lot is an old 50s recording with lovesongs performed with saxophone and piano". Clearly, this guy's got talent, balls and heart. File next to Black to Comm/Éric Cordier/William Basinski.