Music:
Member Since: 4/5/2006
Band Website: geminastella.net/kotkavuori/artist.html
Band Members: Tapio Kotkavuori and guests.
Sounds Like: "This is ritual music. From the opening of earthen growling of didgeridoos the initiate, or listener, is supplanted into the hypnotic trance that threads this entire album, shaman prepared. Tapio has taken great personal care with this album in ensuing his writing on and experiences with the esoteric finds creative expression into this music; his inspiration from certain matters recondite. The CD booklet itself has a short essay by Tapio of his magical initiation into North European mysteries, replete with footnotes"
- Aural Pressure
"Now, were huge fans of all things dark ambient and drone-like here at Crucial Blast, but its not that often that an album in this genre comes along and really offers up something different that we havent heard before. This is great stuff, as good as the equally interesting and creative releases on Aural Hypnox that weve recently discovered. Terra Hyperborea is highly recommended to dark ambient, ethno-ambient, and drone fans. Really high quality ambient drift. The disc also contains a nearly eight minute video for Underground Tunnels, filmed in black and white and featuring images of the Finnish countryside and earth-magic rituals".
- Crucial Blast Webstore
"The true density on this album strictly relents the soul and relieves the spirit with its hypnotic magnetism; an itinerary into the dark corners of the mind and relinquishment of the body. Kotkavuori's missio marginal is stretching minimal peripheries and opens doors to nonordinary realities. This is not an album you just pick up and start listening to because this needs the correct personal environment and mental state before the dark flame guides you through new dimensions".
- Imhotep
Record Label: Gemina Stella
Type of Label: Indie
