Ektroverde
Bandname
Ektroverde
Country
FI / Pori/Tampere/Helsinki
Musicstyle
Space Rock • Electronic • Psychedelic
Homepage
Contact
Ektroverde / J. Lehtisalo
Liisankatu 25 A 10,
28100 Pori,
Finland
Records:
Integral
Record ID: 1388
Label
Mizmaze / Snowdonia
Released
2001
Time (minutes)
70
Tracks
8
Format
CD • LP ?
Musicstyle
Space Rock • Drone • Post Rock
Remark
Reissue from Mizmaze
 1 Link
Pooterland review
Integral
Record ID: 838
Label
Snowdonia/Mizmaze (ITALY)
Released
2000
Tracks
8
Format
CD • No Vinyl
Musicstyle
Post Rock • Electronic • Space Rock
 1 Review / 1 Link
What a breath of fresh air! As if a new Circle album wasn't enough (see "Prospekt" elsewhere on this list), there's also a new release from this Circle side-project. A side project staffed *entirely* by members of Circle, we might add. Hence, there's an unavoidable but definitely welcome similarity between the two bands.
Ektroverde are kind of like Circle's alter-ego -- less intense (and yet, still really intense!), sometimes jazz, sometimes fucked up hi-NRG pop. The trademark Circle rhythmic hypnosis remains, but the sometimes austere riff-mongering and prog-rock precision is mostly superseded by a generally more playful and groovier approach, certainly nothing as heavy or "rockin'" as what's found on "Prospekt". Gorgeous, psychedelic instrumental explorations, even venturing into full review Aquarius Records

Aural Innovations review
Arpeggio
Record ID: 837
Label
Bad Vugum (FIN)
Released
1999
Time (minutes)
50
Format
CD • No Vinyl
Musicstyle
Kraut Rock • Psychedelic
 1 Review
Led by the inspirational Jussi Lehtisalo, Ektroverde are the offshoot of Finnish band CIRCLE to allow members of that band to have a freer musicial approach to free-form music. As Ektroverde the band play a sort of spacerock jazz music. However the spacerock isn't like the Hawkwind style and the jazz isn't like Duke Ellington. If anything the style is closer to the melting pot that the German bands of the early 70's were experimenting with. For instance on the track "Puuttuva" picture in your mind a pefect oval shaped stone skimming across a flat body of water and the further the stone skims across the water the closer the distance between the skimming becomes. Well Jussi plays an amazing tumbling like bass riff that mirrors that stone whilst the drummer lays down a groovy jazz beat and full review Cranium Music

Pingvin
Record ID: 835
Label
Ektro records (ektro-004)
Released
1998
Time (minutes)
74
Tracks
12
Format
CD • No Vinyl
Musicstyle
Post Rock • Psychedelic
 1 Review
Yet another Circle offshoot band is Ektroverde. On Pingvin there are 8 studio tracks, two of which were apparently intended as a 7" release, and four tracks recorded live in Tavastia. Ektroverde's music is best described as melodic space fusion. The instrumentation is quiet, but busy. Everything moves along at a steady pace with the guitars sometimes taking the lead role and at other times the piano, but at all times playing cool melodic space fusion. The astral keyboard work combines with the jazzy feel of the music to make for an interesting mix that surprisingly seems to fit the music rather than oddly contrast with it. Miles Davis meets Hawkwind?
Things don't really pick up until the sixth track, "Fish", where we get into the spacey fusion territory that defines the remaining full review Aural Innovations


 

 
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