Having spent months closed in my bedroom bouncing tapes and PocketStudio tinkering in the 90’s, the drone of multi-layered cassette hum has fallen into the same nostalgic sound bin as LP needle drops and pops for me. The Finnish psych/pfolk label LalLalLal clearly shares an appreciation for fuzzy lo-fi earfood by continuing to release tapes in the time of digital sterility—my first taste being Fricara Pacchu’s Waydom. An impressive and immersive auteur-tangle of krautrock beats looped with multifold psyche guitar riffs and drones drifting in and out of the din.
Larry “Fuzz-O” Dolmen’s review of Waydom as “droned-out Sun Ra-meets-Dead C ethnic music that you can worship pagan concepts to with no persecution complex whatsoever”, had me laughing out loud and nodding in agreement.
Limited to an Edition of 200 and now Sold Out, here’s an archival edition of:
Fricara Pacchu: Waydom (mp3, 38.9MB/rar, massmirror)
via mutant sounds / lallallal