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Neljän biisin 12" ep. Hinta 10 euroa kädestä käteen (YV:llä tavoittaa), 12 euroa kaupoissa.
1. Mother's Burden
2. We Shall Live
3. Sorrowless
4. Slumber Sermon
Saatavilla myös:
http://www.levykauppax.fi/single/mansion/we_shall_live/#mlp (http://www.levykauppax.fi/single/mansion/we_shall_live/#mlp)
http://www.svartrecords.com/shoppe/doom-psych-drone/2046-mansion-we-shall-live-mlp-.html (http://www.svartrecords.com/shoppe/doom-psych-drone/2046-mansion-we-shall-live-mlp-.html)
http://weshalllive.bandcamp.com/ (http://weshalllive.bandcamp.com/)
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https://www.facebook.com/mansionalma (https://www.facebook.com/mansionalma)
hienot soundit. mikäs bändi tää on?
Tää on tämmönen meijän muodikas salabändi :P
Toimii! Melko koukuttava biisi.
Hyvä biisi ja hyvät soundit!
No hitto! Kiva kun maistuu! Neljä biisiä äänitettiin joskus ja laitellaan lisää esille jossain vaiheessa.
Musavideo linjoilla:
Mansion: Slumber Sermon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WiMvAKexQQ#ws)
^Tosi hyvältä kuulostaa!
Hianoo!
EP:n ensimmäinen arvostelu Sleeping Shamanilla:
"Mystery is a rare thing in music, given that we live in an age of ultra-exposure and social networking. No sooner has a demo been released, than we are regaled with tales of what the band had for breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with a detailed rundown of when each member last cried. Well, facetious nonsense aside, it is true that the gentle art of quiet dedication has been thin on the ground recently (and no – overblown, obnoxious PR exercises in "anonymity" do NOT count); after all, good music should speak it for itself, right? Well, the first Mansion EP arrived in my mailbox out of the blue one day, a simple press release and four songs. After having overcome a sense of slightly freaked-out trepidation, I decided to give it a try, and dear Lemmy almighty, this EP turned out to be the best début I've heard this year! Four soulful tunes of utterly entrancing Finnish hard rock, but unlike ANYTHING currently doing the rounds. This sublime quartet of tunes seem to take their cue far more from Sixties/Seventies folk-rock artists like Bread Love and Dreams or Caravan than from Deep Purple, Sabbath or Zeppelin knock-offs.
"Mother's Burden" opens with a beautiful, floating organ straight off the finer prog albums of the Seventies (and also much early Eno ambient), before Keyboardist and vocalist Alma's sublime other-worldly voice lulls us into the land of subtle rhythm guitar and Jinx Dawson-esque chanting. There's a heart-stoppingly beautiful quality to the singing, coupled with a restrained, crisp sound to the instruments of Jaakob, Immanuel, Veikko and Mikael – remember when every band wasn't desperate to sound muddier than the last? Interestingly, the press release claims that the band revolves (thematically) around an End Time cult called "Kartanoism", which flourished in Finland between the Twenties and Fifties. Surprisingly, the internet informs me that this is not a load of cobblers, but based on fact!! If we can have a myriad of "occult rock" bands, why not have "cult rock"? If Manson was able to pull off a half-arsed career with limited talent, this Finnish horde will take over the world with their level of skill! I dread to think of the dross that will follow this brilliant band if this also becomes a fad, but I digress... The opener is a beautiful ode to suffering motherhood and salvation, a gospel from an enchanted room, but tinged with the morbidity of Coven.
The EP continues in the same superlative vein, with "We Shall Live" winning best lyric of the year: "Keep the wretched priest in the dark", a brilliant up-tempo number that lacks none of the soul or steady, prog-rooted riffing of the opener, almost a dancefloor-filler! In fact, "Sorrowless" is even more funky ("To hell and to the Devil you will go!!"), before we are plunged back into morbid darkness for the closing majesty of the huge "Slumber Sermon", Alma's voice sounding like Steve Sylvester if he'd escaped the asylum, ending in a chilling rasp of "AWAKE!". These four songs are devoid of solos, ego or pretension – they are a quartet of amazingly focused, tight-knit works of well-honed art, played by five musicians who understand the power and divinity of music.
Every now and then, a new band comes out of the blue and leaves my jaw on the floor, and Mansion have done just that. Bands like this are the reason we at the Shaman exist at all, and I sincerely hope this band become huge, because based on the promise this first release shows, they damn well deserve it!"
http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/album-reviews/m/mansion-we-shall-live-ep-2013/ (http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/album-reviews/m/mansion-we-shall-live-ep-2013/)
8) Yllätyin... toimiva..
Mansion: We shall live EP ennakkotilattavissa nyt!
Suoraan bändiltä:
http://weshalllive.bandcamp.com/album/we-shall-live (http://weshalllive.bandcamp.com/album/we-shall-live)
Tai Äxästä:
http://www.levykauppax.fi/single/mansion/we_shall_live/#mlp (http://www.levykauppax.fi/single/mansion/we_shall_live/#mlp)
Julkaisupäivä 7.6.2013
Svartin kautta saa myös:
http://www.svartrecords.com/shoppe/doom-psych-drone/2046-mansion-we-shall-live-mlp-.html (http://www.svartrecords.com/shoppe/doom-psych-drone/2046-mansion-we-shall-live-mlp-.html)
Kaameaa spämmäystä, mutta menkööt. Tuleva EP kuunneltavissa kokonaan Soggy Bog of Doomin uusimmassa Podcastissa:
http://thesoggybogofdoom.podomatic.com/entry/2013-05-28T08_39_58-07_00 (http://thesoggybogofdoom.podomatic.com/entry/2013-05-28T08_39_58-07_00)
No onpas hyvän kuuloista!
http://www.roadburn.com/2013/06/album-of-the-day-mansion-we-shall-live/ (http://www.roadburn.com/2013/06/album-of-the-day-mansion-we-shall-live/)
Lainaus käyttäjältä: Vekenator - 12:25:49 - 17.06.2013
http://www.roadburn.com/2013/06/album-of-the-day-mansion-we-shall-live/ (http://www.roadburn.com/2013/06/album-of-the-day-mansion-we-shall-live/)
Loistohommat!
koskahan
mä oon "mestoilla" sellaisessa paikassa, josta tän musapändin levyn voi
"poistaa" elikkäs "ottaa haltuun" tai niinkuin jotkut sanoo, ostaa?
Paranoid music blogi arvosteli (http://theparanoidmusicblog.blogspot.fi/2013/06/mansion-we-shall-live-ep-album-review.html?spref=fb&m=1%5Burl=http://Paranoid%20music%20blogi%20arvosteli)
"There are plenty of good bands out there that play occult rock, Finland's Mansion plays 'cult rock'. They are a six piece band, but for all that is known about them there could be a hundred of them, not all of them musicians, huddled together in a mansion somewhere in the frost-bitten north. Only christian names are given, and just a few photos have emerged of the band while playing live. They exist as a muted and esoteric secret, only paying homage to the world outside when they speak through their instruments. 'We Shall Live' is their first attempt to communicate their cryptic message to the masses. Mansion's music is devotional music, non-traditional gospel that revives a dead religion for a new day and age.
When they do speak, a clean sound emerges. Usually you associate doom with a scraggly aesthetic, ragged dark tones and lazy tempos. Mansion's riffs are streamlined, satisfyingly doomy with gilded edges. Vocals have an almost glossolalic tinge at times before settling into a more traditional rock and metal sound, in order to spread the message to the masses.
For the history buffs, there is reason to Mansion's madness. The name of the band is taken from the surname of Alma Kartano who led a religious cult in Finland from the 1920s through to the 1950s, which was collectively known as Kartanoism. Kartano is the Finnish word for Mansion and at its peak the Kartano cult could count about around a hundred devotees to its numbers. The cult was notable for using children as preachers while apocalyptic feverishness mired the movement in a dour and lengthy period of waiting for the second coming.
According to their short bio, Mansion were "brought together to create strong music reflecting the life of the cult's followers". Staying true to this vision, lead vocals are sung by a woman, also calling herself Alma, who takes on the spiritual essence of the original Alma. Thick atmospheres of devotion greet the listener on first play with a lone organ and quiet vocals heralding opening track "Mother's Burden". Right off the bat, this establishes a worshipful tone to the church of Mansion. When you see the promo photos of the band surrounded by devotees and children with all present dressed in black sexless clothing, it's easy to get a 'cultish' vibe from this band. As a matter of fact, I didn't realize Mansion's cult-like imagery was based on anything at all aside from an earnest drive to express themselves before I read their bio and still I was ready to have Mansion be cult-leaders for this review. "Mother's Burden" is a true epic, rotating between killer riffs with driving tempos and that devotional sound that the band will soon become famous for, the band has a unique vision and they are able to impart that to listeners, even to those that don't know the actual history behind the band and their partial inspiration.
The religious overtones carry over into the title track and spill out across the second side of the EP. Another trick of the trade that Mansion brings to the table are loose and stray bits of ambience between, in and around their songs which create an upright and attentive mental state before slamming in to listeners with those powerful riffs again. Often, the band builds up a strong head of steam with their powerful riffs and solid tempos, before pulling the rug on listeners by cutting the speed of their songs by half and allowing the solid edges of the music to blur like solidified smoke breaking up. The technique is not abrupt, is actually quite subtle and very nearly creates a true state of rapture or musical bliss (see "Sorrowless" for a prime example of this).
Of the four songs on this EP, "Slumber Sermon" is clearly the slowest of the bunch and brings those religious, monastic feelings to a head in a cataplectic dirge. This is a very accomplished debut EP. Based on the quality of riffs and the number of subtle musical techniques spread throughout, it plays out as though a lot of thought has been put into the music and makes this EP a whole and complete work. I will definitely look forward to a full-length album from this band. This is an incredibly solid introduction to a band with a unique vision. The EP is available for pre-order on the band's bandcamp page (see link at bottom of page) and there are a number of preview tracks available for streaming there, check them out or repent!
Highlights include: "Mother's Burden" and "Sorrowless"
Rating: 4/5"
"Okkultistisen rockin rinnalla versoaa uusi genre, kultti-rock. Mansion-yhtyeen kappaleet kertovat Satakunnassa 1920-1950-luvuilla vaikuttaneen, Vanhaan Testamenttiin ja Ilmestyskirjaan nojautuneen kartanolaisuus-uskonlahkon jäsenten elämästä. Ainoa yksityskohta, mikä ei natsaa, on se, että musiikki ja sen soittamiseen ja toistamiseen tarkoitetut modernit laitteet olivat lahkon piirissä ehdottomasti kiellettyjä. Mitäs pienistä, kultin uusi lihaksi tuleminen ei onneksi kanna taakkanaan vuoden 1886 virsikirjapainokseen liittyvää veisuuperinnettä.
Neljän biisin kaksitoistatuumaisen vinyylin takakanteen on kuvattu Huittisten kirkkomaahan vierekkäin haudattu lahkon johtokaksikko Alma "Mooses" Kartano ja horrossaarnaaja Tilda "Elias" Reunanen. Kuva ei liene aito, mutta sen ylväät naishahmot henkivät asiankuuluvaa pirullisuutta. Kaksikko kidutti, uhkasi kuohitsemisella ja käytti rituaaleissaan seksuaalisesti hyväksi seuraajiensa lapsia. Osa heistä aivopestiin lapsisaarnaajiksi.
Vieläkin vaikuttavampi on We Shall Liven etukannen valokuva, missä esiintyvät tutut hahmot lienevät kartanolaisten nykyisiä inkarnaatioita. Mielessä välähtää muistumia piinattujen sielujen vaellusta sivunneista kauhuleffoista. Kannen kompositio muistuttaa 80-luvun postpunk- ja neopsykedelialevyistä.
Mansion operoi Jess and The Ancient Onesin ja Seremonian sukuisella maaperällä. Omaperäinen taustatarina ja laaja-alaisemmat musiikilliset vaikutteet enteilevät Mansionille valoisaa tulevaisuutta ja nostavat bändin retrohenkisten protometallikollegojensa yläpuolelle. Lempeän äidilliseltä kuulostavan, Jinx Dawsonin ja Sonja Kristinan sielunsisko Alman saarnaa ja urkuja säestävät Jaakobin ja Veikko-Tapion melodiset doomriffit sekä rytmiryhmä Immanuelin ja Mikaelin tiukka komppi. Hillityistä synalisukkeista vastaa Aleksanteri.
Tarttuvasta Mother's Burden -biisistä tulee mieleen Dario Argenton The Three Mothers -elokuvatrilogia. Painajaismainen päätöskappale Slumber Sermon käsittelee nimensä mukaisesti Tildan unissasaarnaamista.
Aakkostetussa levyhyllyssä Mansionin EP:n voi sujauttaa Charles Mansonin LIE: The Love and Terror Cult -albumin viereen. Se on kätevää.
8/10
Jari Mäkelä"
http://www.sue.fi/2013/07/mansion/ (http://www.sue.fi/2013/07/mansion/)
Sori ku spämmäilen, mutta menkööt!
Øresund Space Collectiven Scott Heller Arvosteli myös. (http://writingaboutmusic.blogspot.fi/2013/06/mansion-we-shall-live-ep-private.html)
"Mansion is a mysterious release from Finland. The band name refers to the Finnsh Christian apocalyptic Masonite cult, Kartonoism, which existed from the 1920-50s in Finland and was led by Alma Kartano. The band is a five piece playing music like early 80s NWOBHM but with cool female vocals. Each side of the record plays on 45rpm and features 2 tracks. Mother's Burden starts very slow and peaceful but then the mood changes when the heavy guitars and like choir keyboard kicks in. Alma has a special voice that commands your attention. Powerful and emotional in music and lyrics. We Shall Live, the title track is more organ driven and has a cool groove and sort of just sucks you into the mystic vibe of this band.
Flip the record over now and Sorrowless starts with some cool female like choir vocals with some delays as the bands slowly works it way up and then the track kicks in. IT has a similar vibe to the untempo rock of the first side. Somber Sermon ends the side and this is the best track as it gets more and more intense and a bit doomy at times. Some might compare them to Seremonia but I don't think they have much in common besides a female vocalist. Very cool Ep. I can't wait to hear a full length."
Spämmää vaan, näitä on mukava lueskella.
Lainaus käyttäjältä: idiootti - 14:18:55 - 02.07.2013
Spämmää vaan, näitä on mukava lueskella.
Don't mind if I do! Alkaa kyllä oleen jo aika saman toistoa joka puolella :)
http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/blog--new-band-alert-mansion (http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/blog--new-band-alert-mansion)
"It was sometime back in early spring when I first heard word of a strange new doom band out of Finland. Calling themselves Mansion, they combine traditional doom, occult rock, and the philosophy of the obscure Kartanoist Christian sect, which existed in Finland between 1920 and 1950. Derived from the Finnish word for "estate" or "mansion", Kartanoism was also the namesake of founder Alma Kartano, and its followers, which topped 100 at one point, lived strictly ascetic lives, practicing strict sexual abstinence and dressing plainly while awaiting the end of the world and the second coming of Christ, who would judge all sinners.
Much like Sabbath Assembly's treatment of the philosophy of the Process Church of the Final Judgment, there's a level of sincerity in the four songs on Mansion's mesmerizing debut EP We Shall Live that's both enthralling and unsettling. Atop superbly crafted doom arrangements, a singer who calls herself "Alma" – clearly singing from the perspective of Alma Kartano – intones the lyrics with such stone-faced conviction that you're taken aback by it. "I will carry on waiting for the day," she sings. "We shall live; you will die. Every weakling will expire, their sins will be the wall we'll climb out of the darkness into the light." Is she proselytizing? Is she paying homage? Is this all tongue-in-cheek? It's sold so convincingly that it's impossible to tell, and that added mystique makes the songs all the more intoxicating.
Musically, We Shall Live fits neatly between Jess and the Ancient Ones and Purson, but has a much stronger air of mystery. It might be only 22 minutes long, but it is unquestionably one of the best debuts of the year so far. It has just been released on vinyl in a limited first pressing of 200."
Lainaus käyttäjältä: Vekenator - 14:50:44 - 03.07.2013
Alkaa kyllä oleen jo aika saman toistoa joka puolella :)
Levyarvioissako, MITÄ??? :o
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http://www.roadburn.com/2013/07/finlands-mansion-to-bring-end-time-cult-to-roadburn-2014/ (http://www.roadburn.com/2013/07/finlands-mansion-to-bring-end-time-cult-to-roadburn-2014/)
Toi Roadburn-uutinen kyllä mahtavuutta! Vekenator pääsee tsekkaamaan festarin artistin näkökulmasta :)
Seuraava keikka:
NATURE MORTE
Volume II: La Récolte des Simples
SAMMAL
GARDEN OF WORM
MANSION
DJ Feles Fosforus
Perjantai 30.8.2013
Vastavirta-Klubi
6 euroa
Facebook event. (https://www.facebook.com/events/534081266640778/?ref=22)
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Vinyyli vetelee ihan viimeisiään, eli jos semmosen haluaa saada, niin kannattaa olla nopea.
"Finnish six-piece Mansion base their work around concepts taken from the mid-20th Century Christian cult Kartanoism, which branched off the Lutheran church and was founded by and named for Alma Kartano, was noted for things like having heavily-abused child preachers, speaking in tongues, denial of sex even in marriage, and so on. "Kartano" is "mansion" in Finnish, and so the band Mansion make their debut with the We Shall Live EP on Svart with a strong sense of background in the history of this movement that at one point contained hundreds of people. I had doubts as to whether or not Kartanoism existed — there's a Wikipedia page about it, it's mentioned in the description of a book and namedropped on an ex-pentecostal forum — but even if not, that only makes the band more creative. Their frontwoman has also taken the name Alma, and joined by guitarists Jaakob and Veikko-Tapoi, keyboardist Aleksanteri, bassist Immanuel and drummer Mikael, Mansion proffers complex and memorable end-time heavy rock the perspective of which might best be summed up in the extension of its title: "We shall live/You will die/Lost in time." The historical realism of the concept notwithstanding, it's this point of view that really separates Mansion and We Shall Live from the slew of modern cult heavy rockers. Where a band like The Devil's Blood preached Satanism during their time, and Uncle Acid are more bent on drugged-out murder idolatry, Hexvessel offer folksy nature worship on a vehement environmentalist scale and American groups like Castle, Satan's Satyrs and Venomous Maximus run themselves somewhere between all of the above, Alma and Mansion are just as quick to damn their audience as to project an air of superiority. Some of that is vocal inflection, but I'll argue it's in the music as well and certainly in lyrics like the above-quoted or "Give is the names/Give is the guilty/So we may cure/Those that are filthy" from "Slumber Sermon," the final of the four cuts on the half-hour-long EP. To the very core of what they bring to their first release (some Bandcamp digital singles seem to have preceded), Mansion remain loyal to their aesthetic and to their concept.
Where that might lead one to expect some element of the Kartanoist era's music to make its way into Mansion's repertoire — some brass instrument or upright piano or such — that's not how the songs play out. There is some organ to be heard from the synth and opener "Mother's Burden" begins with a kind of humming drone over which Alma slips into resolute and dramatic tension, but We Shall Live remains a work of heavy cult rock. Those who had experience with The Devil's Blood will find a few superficial sonic similarities, though Mansion are far less psychedelic than that Dutch outfit wound up. Still, Alma's powerful vocals on top of driving, chugging riffs like that which takes hold on "Mother's Burden" are effective if true to (sub)genre at this point. By the time the release is finished, Mansion have developed a personality of their own within it, but especially with the underlying swirl the synth creates and the metallic hooks that stand out from "Mother's Burden," there will be those for whom We Shall Live rings familiar. Fortunately, as much energy as the band dedicates to sticking to their founding concept, they match that with the fortitude of their songwriting. Each of the four tracks on the EP — "Mother's Burden," "We Shall Live," "Sorrowless" and "Slumber Sermon" — has both a standout feel and something that ties it to the others, making We Shall Live both an engaging first installment from Mansion and a satisfying front-to-back listen. "Mother's Burden" breaks in its second half to choral layering and ringing bells, building back to a slower refrain of the chorus, and rides that rhythm for a while as a guitar solo takes hold, but draws back to the faster chug to round out symmetrically before giving over to "We Shall Live," the shuffle of which proves worthy of the aforementioned Uncle Acid but becomes fleshed out with organ sounds and Alma's vocal drama as it works its way toward another slowdown and well-structured apex."
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/tag/mansion/ (http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/tag/mansion/)
Levy on edelleen omakustanne vaikka tuossa arviossa sanotaankin, että Svart on julkaissut sen...
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Mansion - We Shall Live (2013) | 94%
"A snowy ground & icy fields, a flow of pristine crystal clear water flowing down the river bank or Saku Koivu being an awesome captain. All these things are reminding me of Finland but at the same time, it's things I know I'm familiar with in my own northern Eden. Populated with aurora borealis and unexpected skiers, both countries can be perceived as similar. But we, Canadians, aren't used to saunas and weird accents everywhere. While we compose boring tech death and frigid, conservative black metal, the Finns, the de facto metal kings of the world, are playing a vast array of genres and the style Mansion decided to explore is one of my favored right now. In fact, this is perhaps the best release the Scandinavian country (or is it Scandinavia, who cares except geographers and historians anyway?) has offered to the so-called recent occult rock/metal movement.
Compared to fellow countrymen Jess and the Ancient Ones, Mansion is definitely part of the metal universe. The doom metal influence is thoroughly present albeit combined with a sort of psychedelic, atmospheric or even Gothic rock sound. The four songs EP has this dark, shady aura inspired by this religious Finnish Christian sect from the early 20th century called Kartanoism. To explain it briefly, this sect included child preachers, complete sexual abstinence, nightly sermons, end of the world expectations and very strict rules. I'm obviously not an expert on the subject, but I'm pretty interested and I'll categorically investigate the matter. Religions are often dark enough to be a totally apt lyrical field for metal bands, as it gives an airy, sermonizing vibe and it's totally the case here. At twenty-two minutes, I wish the sermon was longer, my mind was ready to hit the floor for the return of Jesus, my brothers! Of course, I do believe the religious inspiration is mostly a gimmick, but it's a gimmick that works here. Even "mansion" means something like "kartanorakennus" in Finnish to expand on their theme. They don't need evil popes, no ma'am.
While the music is more simple than occult rockers like The Devil's Blood or Year of the Goat, it's as or even more emotional. The female vocals are pretty damn awesome; mesmerizing and charming but also dark and bewitching. The delivery of the yet unknown singer (named Alma, the same name the leader of this cult had) is top notch. The high, sexy vocals are creating a dichotomy with the "SEX IS THE DEVIL" ideology of Kartanoism. I rarely heard such sex appeal in a doom metal band, I would probably climb on the sacrificial altar myself if I was ordered to by her. The vintage rock vocals really made the band for me, a bit like Jess' vocals made JatAO one of my favourite albums of 2012.
There's no really intricate guitar solos or fourteen minutes songs here though, apart from the exceptional first track that is seven minutes, all tracks are around five minutes. It's a pretty catchy release that left me breathless. Intense emotions aside, the band knows how to measure out their approach, it's not overwhelming. It could had been way more progressive, heavier or even more experimental. But what's so good is the mix of small quantities of everything into their memorable formula. I mean, yes, it would had been awesome to hear a more complex songwriting but as a first release, it established a luscious formula. The tempos are mostly mid paced to slow with pretty simple, yet interesting riffs. I mean, compared to a band like Jex Thoth, it has riffs and not only a special atmosphere with a focus on the vocals. "We Shall Live" has a rich, subtle instrumentation that we can hear in the last track "Slumber Sermon". It has some noisy feedback and an ingenious but mysterious use of keyboards that is also opening the EP. You can imagine the despair and brainwashing that this religious community lived with in its era and the piercing cold of the wind on your face.
Their dark, fun and entrancing doom is simply of the highest quality you can find. Maybe their sound is not the most adventurous and they're perhaps openly riding a trendy wave but they're doing it in the best way possible. Mansion already achieved a level of maturity that will make Selim Lemouchi blush and punch random people in the streets. Greatness is already a given, I wonder what's next. They're without a doubt the best new doom band of 2013."
http://metantoinemagicalrealm.blogspot.fi/2013/09/mansion-we-shall-live-2013-94.html (http://metantoinemagicalrealm.blogspot.fi/2013/09/mansion-we-shall-live-2013-94.html)
Mansion: We Shall Live (vinyyli-ep)
"Svart Recordsin julkaisema Mansionin We Shall Live -ep onnistuu yllättämään monella tavalla. Mansion etsii olemassaololleen merkitystä aikoinaan vaikuttaneesta kristillisestä Kartanolaisuus-lahkosta. Parin vahvan naisen johtama liike tuomitsi seksuaalisuuden alimpaan helvettiin ja maailmanlopun odotus oli vahvasti läsnä. Kyseisestä lähtökohdasta odotukset olivat Sabbath Assemblyn tai Hexvesselin suunnalla mutta Mansion yllättää tyrkkäämällä ilmoille 70-luvun raskasrockin, 60-luvun folkrockin, okkultistisen ja psykedeelisen rockin sekä doomin johdannaista.
Kun bändin vokaaleista huolehtii vielä heleä naisääni, Jess And The Ancent Ones on helppo laittaa samalle viivalle. Kun tulille viskataan vielä nimiä kuten Seremonia, Lord Vicar ja Year of the Goat, Mansionin visioihin löytyy selkeyttä. Vahva mystisyys, laaja tunnerekisteri sekä vaikutteiden runsaus asettavan Mansionin kuitenkin vertailukohteitaan askeleen korkeammalle.
Pikkukiekon alku ja loppu ovat suorastaan huumaavaa kuunneltavaa. Mother's burden suorittaa aluksi leijuntaan ristiriipunnassa kunnes 70-luvun räyhäävät skebat ottavat jalat alleen. Räyhähengen hellittäessä meno on hartaampaa kivikuorman raahaamista, tosin pettävän hapokkaassa ilmanalassa.
Kiekon päättävä Slumber sermon on levyn häiriintynein tekele. Vaikutteita löytyy useasta lokerosta mutta paino on raskaassa, suorastaan ryömivässä harmaudessa.
Kiekon nimibiisi etenee hyvinkin Deep Purplemaisessa maisemassa ja vokalistin otteessa on Debby Harryn mieleen tuovaa määrätietoisuutta. Sorrowless harrastaa vastaavaa suoraviivaisempaa rock-linjaa.
Mansion asettaa rimaa todella korkealle. Bändillä tuntuu olevan hallussaan avaimia yllättäviinkin genrelokeroihin. Bändin resepti, kulttirokkia hapokkaalla ja sielukkaalla otteella, tuottaa todella perinnetietoista jälkeä. Mansionin kohalla kysymys kuuluu, kenen pussiin sielusi solahtaa!
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Olisko jollain myydä tämä 12" !! ? Hitto kun missasin taas...YV:llä tavoittaa.
Lainaus käyttäjältä: Turbourpo - 17:25:59 - 08.12.2013
Olisko jollain myydä tämä 12" !! ? Hitto kun missasin taas...YV:llä tavoittaa.
Just tuli uus painos uudella kansikuvalla. Huutelen kuitenkin tähän jos jotain muutakin sattuu kiinnostamaan.
Streaks Recordsin julkaisema uusintapainos ulkona nyt!
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Seuraava keikka Turun Klubilla (taas kerran) perjantaina 7.2. Mukana myös Sammal ja Kimi Kärki. Live puolella tällä kertaa.
Mansion - Bar Lepakkomies, Helsinki, 2.1.2014 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ycs_EsjFCA#ws)
Jes !!! Vihdoinkin saan hommattua tämän suoraan Jarkolta ;D. Eilinen keikka oli kyllä MAHTAVA !!!!