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PAN SONIC RELEASE NEW ALBUM, KESTO, AVAILABLE ONLY AS 4CD BOX SET


PAN SONIC
New Album: KESTO (234:48:4)
Release Date: May 18, 2004

"There is no theory for PAN SONIC. We have no plan. We just make the music."
(Mika Vainio)

KESTO (234:48:4) is a brand new quartet of compact discs from PAN SONIC
(Mika Vainio and Ilpo Vaisanen) available only as one complete set.

This is an epic work in the true sense of the word.

The title means "strength" or "duration", entirely appropriate in both the
size of this work (over four hours of new music) and the scale of the band's
adventures since the release of their last album Aaltopiiri in 2001.

Directly after Aaltopiiri's release, uninspired by the traditional rock and
roll performance circuit they had so elegantly mastered since their public
birth in 1995, PAN SONIC undertook a mammoth round-the-world tour that was
organized via an enthusiastic response to two small adverts in The Wire
music magazine. The adverts invited promoters, fans or the merely curious to
offer the band a range of far flung locations and exotic venues in which to
perform. In exchange, the band asked only for the promise of accommodation
and a percentage of any profits that the event might generate. They received
hundreds of offers, which resulted in a eight-week-long expedition that took
them from their base in Barcelona to Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland,
Papeete, Easter Island, Buenos Aires, Tijuana, Mexico City, San Francisco,
Seattle, Portland, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Princeton University, and
Reykjavik. In the course of the tour they played in every type of venue,
from major concert halls to back street "rumbatini" shacks, gathering
inspirational atmospheres from a wide and wild variety of events including a
monkeys' tea party, an Easter Island shebeen, late night hot springs and
frozen snow baths, audio recordings of the famous stone heads of Easter
Island and the lo rider cars of Tijuana, and working with a 40-member
Icelandic choir.

They had fully expected to continue on for another four weeks by driving to
events in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Turkey,
Israel and Greece, but Mika Vainio fell ill through the physical and mental
stress of almost constant travel and performances, causing the Eastern Bloc
section to be cancelled. The travelogue recommenced in Istanbul and was
completed in Athens, but Mika vowed from there on in that touring would
consist of no more than four consecutive performances.

After a lengthy period of recovery Mika relocated himself and their studio
to Berlin from their first temporary home of Barcelona, where they had moved
in 1998 to escape the long Finnish winters in their hometown of Turku, 100
miles west of Helsinki.

The original discussions of ideas for the new recordings were based around
Mika's favorite painter Francis Bacon and his use of the triptych (a format
Bacon used a number of times in his lifetime). Always pushing the
boundaries, PAN SONIC were inspired to go on to record a fourth part.

Those familiar with PAN SONIC's work may detect a correlation between their
use of sound and Bacon's use of paint; the KESTO recordings represent a
substantial new depth and vitality in the quality of their sound palette
that brings a newfound life force and delicate violence into their music.

PAN SONIC have remained true to their original and pioneering use of their
special handmade analog tone generators, more old radio set than
synthesisers, with the occasional use of digital samplers for the more
rhythmic sounds. They still record live to DAT tape in real time with no
overdubbing.

The sounds within are complemented by the award winning photography of
fellow Finnish artist Anne Hamalainen.

Meet the "quadruplets":

(As PAN SONIC often use a form of slang or "twisted" Finnish words, for this
release they have added their nearest understanding of the Finnish meaning
in English wherever possible to help listeners to integrate the source
atmosphere into the tracks)

KESTO (234:48:4) = 234 minutes, 48 seconds, 4 milliseconds

CD1
01. Rahina 1/ Mayhem 1
02. Mutaaattori / Mutator
03. Onkalo / Cavity
04. Pakoisvoima / Fugalforce
05. Louhi
06. Rahina II / Mayhem II
07. Tiimu / Halter
08. Keskeisvoima / Central force
09. Vahentaja / Diminisher
10. Rahina III / Mayhem III
11. Lautturi / Rafter
12. Painovoima / Gravity

CD2
01. Etaisyys / Distance
02. Konnat / Toads
03. Virtamuuntaja / Current-Transformer
04. Tasmania
05. Johto 5 / Cable 5
06. Valomuuntaja / Light-Transformer
07. Altistus / Exposure
08. Routa-olio / Groundfrost
09. Telemiittit / Telemites
10. Sykkiva / Throbbing
11. Prospekt Vernatskogo
12 Arktinen / Arctic

CD3
01. Viemarimaailma / Sewageworld
02. Kaytava / Corridor
03. Ilmenemismuoto / Appearanceform
04. Pakkasen Holvit / Arches of Frost
05. Selittamaton / Inexplicable
06. Ilma / Air
07. Koljan Uni / Sleep of Haddock
08. Linjat / Lines

CD4
01. Sateily / Radiation

This year PAN SONIC have already provided a sound installation for the
Berlin Biennale and performed at the Phillip Glass "Alter Ego" festival in
Milan.

They will play the UK for the first time in nearly three years in April at
The Triptych Festival (Edinburgh / Aberdeen / Glasgow) and in May at
"RE~TG" - a celebration of Industrial Music in the 21st Century" at Camber
Sands as special guests of the curators, Throbbing Gristle.

In November they travel to China to perform at Beijing's 2nd electronic
music festival and in early 2005 they will return to Japan and Australia, as
well as attempt their first tour of Africa.

They will also feature in David Toop's new book Haunted Weather and the
accompanying double CD (out April) and in American digital film maker Edward
Quist's much anticipated 1999 debut long-form DVD KUVAPUTKI (summer 2004)

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