Tomutonttu

VINYL FORMAT. Tomutonttu ("Dust Gnome") is a human called Jan Anderzen, a visual artist and the leader of respected avant-garde sound group Kemialliset Ystavat. Toy reed streams, mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are some of the colors used to create the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. It is like a confused and confusing detail of the Kemialliset Ystavat freedom-flow - a microcosmos of strange sound creatures and dirt flying around in the stereo space, interacting with a logic all of their own.

Harkening early electronic experimenters and avant composers of the past such as early Die Todliche Doris and Meredith Monk, this album is like listening to 500 library records all at once, or walking through a labyrinth of motherboards, or laying on a scientist's table with electrodes attached to your body while you are exposed to every noise, light, and color in their various range of spectrums.

Tomutonttu has collaborated live with Mike Bernstein (Double Leopards, Religious Knives), Joshua Burkett, Tara Burke (Fursaxa), The Skaters, Glenn Donaldson (Jewelled Antler), Sami Sanpakkila (Es) and Clay Ruby (Davenport), and has recently played a series of concerts for school kids at the planetarium in his home town of Tampere, Finland.