Asio Otus: “Taivaallisia Tulia”

The Mainz, Germany-based tape label Sicsic has been giving us cause to prick up our ears for a while now, having released music by artists such as Panabrite, Innercity, and the recent Congos-collaborator, M. Geddes Gengras. They have a variety of interesting material due out soon, but this forthcoming tape is a particularly intriguing prospect. Described only as an “obscure Finnish duo” and presumably named after the Long-eared Owl, Asio Otus have apparently created a “concept album about UFO sightings in the early 70s in a small town called Pudasjärvi” – events which you can read a bit more about here. To these ears, the intense and driving first section of this excerpt sounds more like the aliens have actually landed and are marching upon mankind in a most ominous fashion, while the shimmering synth haze and Harmonia-esque drum machine of the second part definitely suggests bewitching light phenomena in the northern night skies.

Taivaallisia Tulia will be released February 12th on SicSic Tapes

Written by Christopher Greenberg