CIRCLE - Pori CD Deutschpunk as thoroughly mysterious as early

as thoroughly mysterious as early American soil

Franciska pretty much captures the very essence of the sound world their label now is associated with: melancholic and rather loose tape compositions made with a hands-on approach

the creaking of the piano bench and the tapping of Emahoy's finger on the record button give the feeling of being with the artist as she records

vibrational matter

and fast classic hardcore punk rock songs (with a few reggae numbers thrown in for good measure) re-issued from the original 1982 cassette-only release

CIRCLE - Pori CD Deutschpunk as thoroughly mysterious as earlyPori 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