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The music of Keuhkot (meaning ”Lungs”),
a.k.a. Kake Puhuu, has inspired music writers around the world
to unleash some wild definitions - for example: ”avant-garde
ethno-noise vaudeville”, “weirdo angularity that sounds
like Wagnerian Nintendo”, and many more.
Kake Puhuu’s astounding live performances,
complete with speaker’s stands, giant bird boxes and smell
effects, his virtuoso lyrics, which represent Finnish modern poetry
at its most intense, and his dreamlike photography on the covers
of Keuhkot records all come together as an integrated work of
art. With its uncompromising attitude, its earnest pondering of
existential questions and a cruel sense of humour, it shares a
distinct affinity with other Finnish artists influenced by ”arctic
hysteria” – like Teemu Mäki and Kalervo Palsa or
the bands on Oulu’s Bad Vugum label – and even veers
close to Finnish ”outsider art”.
The music of Keuhkot builds on the foundation
laid by The Residents in the 70’s, but spices things up with
Arabic folk influences and the fuzzy echos of punk and industrial
music, finishing it off with Kake’s visionary, Finnish lyrics.
At times, the lyrics are Kafkaesque,
nausea-inducing fantasies, or personal tirades with razor-sharp
irony at his own expense. At other times they are venomous proclamations
against social evils, or impenetrable contemplations (on who knows
what!). Above all, Keuhkot is funny – at least if you get
a kick out of the style of the following titles, which also form
the Keuhkot discography: ”Music for Railway Guard’s
Vans”, ”Don’t Ever Listen to Music”,
”Meat on the Y-axis, I Am Right”, ”Keuhkot
Trivializes the Search for Truth by Turning It into Mere Wordmongering”,
”What Do You Take With You As a Souvenir of Civilization”,
”The Left And the Right”, ”The Brown
Chronicle”, and ”I Feel Sorry for the Bilhartzia
Parasite”. AN
Friday 9.11.2001 - Gloria
21:00-3:00 - Avanto-Club: Keuhkot
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