pre-UTON era guitar improvisations released on Magma Tones, August 2021

CDR, edition of 14 copies (+ 1 test pressing copy)

kongkong: Guitar Noise Overdose

 

Electric guitar improvisations from 2000. Recorded in Tampere, Finland.

Prepared, untuned, distorted guitar with feedback, played directly into the line using stereo speakers as a monitor amp or sometimes using an old speaker from a radio.

Previously unreleased. All "songs" by Jani Hirvonen / kongkong 

Digital single :

αn ⊷ Ξnℇℜgetiℂ ⊷ ℂ⊕nvℇrsion

Released 31st July 2021, available at uton.bandcamp.com

name your price... so it's possible to get it for free

✷ thℇ ⊷ ℜΞd ⊷ ♇i┕┕ ⊷ mℇ┕⊤ing / recorded 12th February 2021 ▽
✸ a┕⊤Ξred ⊷ gℇnΞtiℂs / 9th May 2021 ▽

✶ Most of the sounds (roughly 99%) were made with Korg Minilogue XD. Just a short part of the track 1 has an additional virtual synth going on. Final mix, edit and mastering with Cubase and CoolEdit, July 30th 2021. All work by Jani Hirvonen / ♡ ☮

"Let it melt, smell the divine, coming from inside. The manufactured illusion disappears, vanishing, for the greater good." 

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞

brandnewtube.com/v/kje7hq

New album AWAKENED HYPERSPACE

Released on cassette in July 14 by Ikuisuus (Finland) and Unread (USA). Digital version (and also some copies of the cassette) available directly from Uton's Bandcamp:

 

New album: PROCESSING THE UNSEEN, AGAIN

 

Digital modular synth improvisations, recorded in September 2019. Edited and mastered January 2020 & Early 2021. Released on Double-CDR, edition of 20 copies, May 2021, Magma Tones.
Comes in 2x slim cases with two 4-page inserts + extra 12-page b&w photo booklet (photos taken around 2020-2021 in Turku, Finland). Digital version comes without the booklet material.

Copies of the cassette albums BEHIND THE SCENES (Black Horizons) and TAAJUUKSIA TAAEMPAA (Unread Records) now available from uton.bandcamp.com (or direct email). These were released some while ago, but didn't arrive to Finland until now. Both are looking great!

 

 

Couple of other new cassettes were released on Magma Tones. The reissue of UTON's 2018 album 

PA-LUU VAL-OON + reissue of The Brain Dwarf's first album Esoteric Construction + the new recordings of YKSI + Yksi's first album also (on cdr). Please go and check more information & listen the samples here: magmatones.bandcamp.com

 

 

ANOTHER new thing: a project called MIND BALANCE PROGRAM. It's first album is released digitally on 

Magma Tones bandcamp

Mind Balance Program is a new concept & series of recordings by UTON; specialized to the minimal setups and sounds - 

and like the project name says, 

it’s made for the purpose to balance the listeners mind.

 

NEW RELEASE:

UTON - TAAJUUKSIA TAAEMPAA  

Cassette, Unread Records

 

Originally released digitally in 2016 - but now finally on a cassette! Some copies will arrive to Uton HQ in a near future. You may order your copy from the label directly also. 

 

NEW RELEASE:

 

UTON - Messages from the Cosmic Pattern

Special limited edition cassette. Only 12 copies made.  

LISTEN/BUY HERE

Side A is a live recording from the online festival Musa Ullakolla 6,  14th May 2020. Side B is a recording with the same setup as the live. Each copy has a different recording on the side B. Total 40 minutes.

Field recordings (from the forest in Turku) recorded in 2019 - modified in live improvisation with a synth & effects. Side B tracks were recorded in February and March 2020. No overdubs.

Digital version has the live recording in its complete length (while the cassette version is edited to 20 minutes). However there's no "Side B" on the digital version.