ORANSSI PAZUZU – Muuntautuja

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• Bands:
  ORANSSI PAZUZU
• Duration: 00:43:05
• Available from: 11/10/2024
• Label:

• Nuclear Blast

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“Muuntautuja”: something that changes shape or state. An almost oxymoronic title for Oranssi Pazuzu, a band that has always accustomed us not to follow a pre-established path, nor to settle on easy and obvious genre labels.
With this album, after the monumental psychedelic and 'prog' (in a very personal sense) drift of “Mestarin Kynsi”, the five Finns play at reducing the structure of the songs to the bare bones, focusing on a noise approach, in the double sense of noise and of musical genre: small fragments that are equally expressed on all instruments, from which their interstellar journeys then take flight in a more dissonant way than in the past, but no less reasoned, even if it takes a few more listens than usual to be captured by the experience.
It is not an immediate album, easy to grasp and – to be honest – not even as persuasive as the previous ones; however, it is right to insert it in the context of their tireless research, making it the possible pillar on which, probably, the band will erect new sonic cathedrals, taking advantage of the most relevant (and tantalizing) elements present.
The songs proposed are significantly shorter than usual, as if to express a greater expressive urgency, and it is no coincidence that post-punk impulses are even captured, similar to what Juho Vanhanen experienced with Haunted Plasma; speaking of other parallel projects, the sidereal dimension becomes more ritualistic here, as in the experience of the Waste Of Space Orchestra.
We find in this work a couple of undeniable gems: first and foremost “Hautatuuli”, i.e. the breeze from the depths – a perfect title for the most atmospheric and rarefied track of the lot. And then the final “Vierivä Usva”: a perfect horror soundtrack, and as Jun-His himself jokingly told us during the interview (soon to be published), who knows if this might be the future direction of the band.
Whatever it may be, at this time we are not calling it a miracle, but we are maintaining faith and curiosity towards one of the most original voices of the extreme scene – provided that this definition still makes sense with sound explorers of this type.