Atte Elias Kantonen - POP 6 SUSURRUS (Mappa)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

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What We Say

​It's questionable if regular musical forms are adequate to convey the invisible virus attacked, powerful sociopath affected times we now live in, but Atte Elias Kantonen's surprisingly easy listening, somehow soothing & perhaps even enlightening collection of whirz, blups, sqweels, glangs, squidges, brumps & frongpips for mappa might just have nailed it perfectly.

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What The Release Notes Say

Finnish composer, sonic explorer and sound designer Atte Elias Kantonen joins mappa with a suite of fascinating whisperings. Following releases on SUPERPANG, Active Listeners Club or Granny Records, ‘POP 6 SUSURRUS’ finds Kantonen exploring the extreme edges of various sound sources. By kneading, bending, stretching and squeezing slivers of audio, he uncovers their uncanny underbelly; ‘POP 6 SUSURRUS’ creaks, gurgles, hisses, susurrates, bubbles, boils, disintegrates, echoes, plunges… Throughout, however, it also maintains a feeling of softness and vulnerability; velvety melodic clouds hover above the alien landscape. 

In creating ‘POP 6 SUSURRUS’, Kantonen was guided by the paradox of an anxious mind, and was “attempting to cartograph an in-between of order and confusion.” Hints of memories break into fragments of abstractions, clear thoughts are embellished, and listening feels like “trying to convey the nature of distilling meaning from muddled experiences.” Most of the time it feels like the music is on the verge of collapse – like a jenga tower after everyone’s had several turns – but in reality it’s all very beautifully balanced and masterfully assembled. Your ears will be pleased.

CREDITS
​Music, recorded, mixed, kneaded and twiddled by Atte Elias Kantonen in Helsinki 2020-2021 
attekantonen.cargo.site 
www.instagram.com/atteelias/ 

Artwork and layout by Kevin Hytönen 

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi 

Words by Adam Badí Donoval  
abdonoval.com 

The work was supported by The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)