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ATHLETIC ARMS

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MARCH 2008:
we have decided to stop being a band for at least the foreseeable future. the last two shows will be on march 12th at om'pu, playing an acoustic set, and at liberté on the 15th, both in the kallio area of Helsinki. more information at our blog - horseandhounds.blogspot.com
volume 3: sinister vänster back in stock now with brand new inserts and all paintings by the band. no piss or blood, sorry. if you would like some piss and / or blood and / or one of these records, please send an email to athleticarmsÄTgmailDÖTcom. price is 3 euros +1e postage (depending where you live)
Inside the moss of bacteria grown war
the children are poisoned first.
The tigers reduce their nutrition to cereals,
polar bears chew mentos
in the painted and moving metal-made tubes,
furnished shells and air-conditioned tin cans
that move to keep the ones travelling dormant,
and the ones travelling could as well use coffins for transportation,
and the ones using coffins could as well be exhibited
as repairable, plural mimicry waiting to be restored
to its former incarnations.
The freshmakers have all left town.
We arrived at an airport,
across its lips crawled a giant city
fevered by its black libido,
a red grape, soon to be turned violet,
blending intensely with eight surrounding colours,
playing a Dog playing dead to have
a snicker
a linger
as a lion
with its teeth on its little finger.
There, at her waist we felt a postponed
microwave dinner's slow digestion beginning
at the shops a microsomatic neuroverb took place
at the hide of the dens of particular animals,
lenses glowing from other than suns light
because it was a scandal and scandals
happen and are pictured at night.
Her mouth opened and sun-rays beamed in its
beak inside its teeth lay a muscular verb:
a handle to hold on, one that would cease to error,
error in the way suns attached to the moon and the moon
to yellow and marshmallows and mist to shit and this is
it.
Voiceless, coiled in light of no color
a vast mimicry.
Those vile in this den are systems in the people of the button.
People of the button stay fresh and so clean, clean
as tigers and cats, the way empty cans clank in midnight alleyways,
stay pureë, curare.
aircrash @ Lönnrothsgatan, into a road a plane among the vehicles (fast), smoke fills early afternoon sky, having not much else to do, and you there, not moving very much. a blueprint of grey blockss suddenly awaken in the middle + judas & dismal gestas hanging all over trees in western-movies minus marlon brando or any other stony-face-dead-man-men. be it heaven or hell, tell me what lies between the cars, the plane and street. so.. wallhole street & a russian man shouting continuously over other loud stuff, you cut in half. i was sorry to see that. - and as we stumble across lost secrets, i wonder will you know how dear i hold this? that you're there, my darling, with me walking-On that eve of summer’s, every eve and adam were together entwined, tired, definition worn lovers, cursing beneath soaken covers. my silent phone with without, i’d be out there somewhere. Distance and the distant wallowing clouds as they were, somewhere above Turkey, as a kid. anxious titles appear, with chill and frost they peer into the lilywhite. oddly reworking their way out in chemistry of trend-issues weekly determining how to skin a grown human. you really should get dressed. the issue is new york skyscrapers are found in waste-disposal burning alight - you're surrounded and it's not but not humid at all...
not shouting anything familiar at all with those chords at you, caroline, it was four girls, mean cruel ones, anything but abrams or rampaging written for bass, a sequence of tenses, missiles in tents, relaxed and tensed, muscles and joints
not my fault
foucault
savage is their nature, these beasts and silences, several links are discovered, similarities between species, ancestral crystallisation etc. or actually avoiding them as history repeats itself: think about the dialogue in your head, you can observe the mouths and jaws moving throughout not being a lip-kisser - andrew was seemingly stunned by the way his uncle treated his aunt although it was revealed to him afterwards in bed. this kind of sensing can be improved to a faster mode; think of horses: they act seven times faster than man; think of horse-societies where wars would happen seven times faster, would it speed up the evolution of a community? would they experience rock-bottom faster and return to horse-democracy?
fem: du behöver inte vara alles vän.
fuck! misfortune is torture. stay pureé. curare. rhythm dis)section: rural pole activities, nork and sout, split by the end of december. others did other things. played stringed instruments (broken) and piano (steinway)
9-piece experimental pop group, aa blog here

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/11/2006
Band Website: http://www.sevensymphonies.com/xo/spindex.html
Band Members: t u u k k a - d r u m s e m i l y - v o c a l s i i n a - t r u m p e t j o h a n n e s - s a x o p h o n e a n n a & s e i d i & j o a c h i m - s t r i n g s r o y - v o c a l s s a m u - g u i t a r j e r e - g u i t a r p e t t e r i - b a s s t i m j a m - k e y b o a r d j o e l - c l a r i n e t
Influences: perhaps this will be updated soon, perhaps not
not necessarily influences, but things we like.
a: assembly line people program ("subdivision of being"), antony & the johnsons, arvo pärt, animal collective, all the creatures of the sea, adam green, arab strap, alice sebold
b: bas jan ader, belle & sebastian ("tigermilk"), bright eyes, ben okri, broken social scene, bruckner, birds at night, boards of canada, broadcast
c: clinic, constellation records, chk chk chk, cocteau twins, caribou, the church, crayon fields, concretes
d: david lynch, devendra banhart ("oh me oh my.."), david michael stith, deerhoof, divine comedy, douglas adams, duke spirit, domino records
e: echo is your love, elliott smith, echoboy, ensemble, efterklang, ennio morricone, echo & the bunnymen, empress, eels
f: feist, flim, four tet ("everything ecstatic"), film me sleeping, final fantasy, flaming lips, fugazi ("the argument"), fun
g: graham coxon ("the sky is too high"), grizzly bear, godspeed you! black emperor, graham greene
h: half-handed cloud, hauschka
i: i am kloot ("twist/86 tvs"), interpol, international airport
j: josé gonzalez, joy division, joose keskitalo
k: kaizers orchestra, kafka, katatonia
l: low, liars, life without buildings, lambchop
m: mark haddon, mystery twin, múm, maximillian hecker, mogwai, m83 ("before the dawn heals us"), mikhail bulgakov, mother goose, morr music
n: the notwist
o: one-speed bike, o samuli a
p: paul klee, pavement, pj harvey, pi, paavoharju, portishead, patrick wolf
r: roy andersson ("sånger från andra våningen"), radiohead, rock action records, roald dahl, rhyme of the ancient mariner, richard hawley
s: sonic youth ("washing machine"), stars, spain, sissy spacek, stereolab, shivers, siouxie & the banshees, sappington, slint, sufjan stevens, shadowplay, sebadoh, the sleepy jackson, siniaalto, scott 4, smashing pumpkins
t: tortoise, tied & tickled trio, tape findings, t.s. eliot, teenage fanclub, thomas newman
u: ulver
v: velvet underground, viking moses
w: william schaff, the weird weeds, whiskey & apples records, wilco, whirlwind heat
x: xiu xiu
y: yann martel, young god records, yeah yeah yeahs ("ep")

Sounds Like: mogwai meets hecktor
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

past gigs

 Here are the past gigs. Various band names, various line-ups :2008.03.15 Liberté, Helsinki2008.03.12 Om'Pu, Helsinki2008.02.22 TVO, Turku2008.01.12 Henry's Pub, Kuopio2008.01.02 Kuudes Linja, He...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:25:00 GMT

athletic arms vs. navigations: ultraconservative mathias sings cd-r

ultraconservative mathias sings is a collaborative effort recorded with three wonderful people who play in a band called navigations. the recording took place on february 9th at their combined re...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:51:00 GMT

athletic burns vol. 3 : sinister vänster

athletic burns is a series of cd-r records that we make of the things we consider too good for the internet, a way to make available the various bits and pieces that we n...
Posted by on Thu, 17 May 2007 03:20:00 GMT

athletic burns vol. 2 : mass graves / tetris

athletic burns is a series of cd-r records that we make of the things we consider too good for the internet, a way to make available the various bits and pieces that we n...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:54:00 GMT

athletic burns vol. 1 : ff3 (extended version)

athletic burns is a series of cd-r records that we make of the things we consider too good for the internet, a way to make available the various bits and pieces that we n...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:00:00 GMT

...about the songs in the player

"SINKING STEAMBOATS"An unreleased recording from the VOLUME 2 sessions"DISTRESS"From the January 2007 sessions, a recent mix from november 2008."A FAREWELL TO ATHLETIC ARMS"Recorded at Master Recordin...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:08:00 GMT