Audiobot
The Polka Dot Sunflower Bed Orchestra (FIN,2005)***
Whenever I get an American CD in my hand it takes me at least 5 minutes to open them and to get all the glued plastic off it. This is an alternative CD and it has an alternative way of asking time from me trying to open it. Once the CD is cut loose the whole mini-LP sized package seems to fall apart while the artwork looks now completely like a throw away piece. It leaves me just trying the left over 'found object' that is the recording.
The group The Polka Dot Sunflower Bed Orchestra is completely unknown, even in Finland amongst the experimental folkies, and that’s a shame, because their way of improvising is much more psychedelic, in a sad and dreamy bedroom-quiete sense, when compared to other more known groups. It’s psychedelic in an introverted way, with a large portion of the far-out. We hear some sad harmonium & organ hypnosis, twisted and dreamy background vocals, plucked primitive picking, flutes, handbells, cymbals and tape noises, all mixed in a seaweed-like improvisational structure, like an inverted krautrock womb, with an evolution towards a being-stoned-focusing-and-stepping-towards-a-washing-machine. There are many experimental, natural switches and changes of light at the sea-bottom of its musical focus evolution.
It’s a short but really nice CDR, which comes over almost like a musical story.
Only 150 copies made, with stencilled cover.
