Astro Can Caravan
Chainsmoker
Cleaning Women
Dirty Projectors
Hotguitars
Kaucas
Kometa
Kontackto
Ronskibiitti
Phuzy
Sekunda
Stalwart

CAUTION!
CLEANING IN PROGRESS!

"It's a joke, right?"
Three guys in drag, clinking away like monkeys in heat at their home-made instruments made out of clotheshorses and pickle jars, hollering vaguely nonsensical slogans about the importance of cleaning... That's not exactly asking for the music to be taken too seriously, right?

Wrong.
Granted, you may be excused to have entertained such heretic notions, if you have not been lucky enough to have witnessed any of the Cleaning Women's hundreds of packed club or art-house performances, where your jaw would most likely have dropped at the sight of their supreme skill and prowess. Despite the apparent flimsiness of their self-customized 'drying racks', their sound and teamwork are tight and sturdy in a punkjazz kinda way, and despite the undisputably avantgardian approach, the actual songs are danceable and easy to relate to, with enough nuances to transcend most genre boundaries.
"Intergalactic industrial disco rock", somebody came up with, "ambient afro-techno riff crunch", tried another one, "really NEAT music", most people realize - all of which are proven to be mere understatements by the ambiguously-named debut album "Pulsator".

The powder trio consists of cleaning robots (on a cleaning mission from the planet Clinus 1) codenamed CW04 (Tero Vänttinen), CW03 (Timo Kinnunen), and CW01 (Risto Puurunen), the latter of whom made the original discovery that when you place a clothes hanger on a clotheshorse it makes a rather interesting, clinking sound. After an epiphany of such earth-shattering proportions CW01 started adding contact microphoness, effects and home-made electric stringed instruments to his rack - and before he knew it, he had a truly new sound at his disposal. And as the whole cleaning crew possesses enough musical vision to incorporate influences from such ridiculously wide-ranging genres as industrial, ambient, punk, "world musics", techno, jazz and heavy rifforama rock, you can for once speak of a style truly of their own. What's more, they manage to do all that without stooping to gratuitous 'art for art's sake', and actually entertain pretty heterogenic crossover crowds.

No wonder, then, that the hygienic threesome have been able to spread their gospel of cleaning in some ten different countries already - even before releasing their first record.


Out on BV2 Produktions:

Aelita CD (BV-9)

Three years of seasoning after the debut sure show, in just about every aspect: the atmospheric tracks are more massive now, and the groovy clotheshorse-clinking is even catchier. More importantly, the overall sound is both heavier AND more organic. What's more, you get two mpeg-videos for good measure.

-> lue haastattelu!
->Lue arvioita: 1,2


Voit tilata Aelita -cd:n myös tekstiviestillä:
lähetä viesti HINTA20 BV AELITA OMA NIMI, OSOITE numeroon 16369
(toimii kotimaassa DNA:n, Elisan, Kolumbuksen, Saunalahden, TeleFinlandin ja TeliaSoneran liittymistä ).
Saatuasi vahvistusviestin toimi siinä olevien ohjeiden mukaisesti. Vahvistusviestiin vastaamalla vahvistat tilauksesi. Levy tulee postitse suoraan ilmoittamaasi osoitteeseen. Levyn hinta (20 euroa) veloitetaan seuraavassa puhelinlaskussa.


Pulsator CD (BV-1)

"The overall ambience of the disc is electronic and machine-like, yet uncannily human (...) The songs themselves are often futuristic in a tarkovskian way, but so primitive at the same time. It's like some time-machine has relocated a tribe of natives to chant in the landscapes of Solaris." -Voima (Fin)
"It is absolutely astounding to witness the proficiency and intensity with which they play their hopeless-looking contraptions. It is equally perplexing to realize that the band has been able to literally construct their own world of sound that really sets them apart from all others (...) Cleaning Women have made avantgarde into something to dance to." -Helsingin Sanomat (Finland's leading national newspaper) "...fantastic set... a startlingly original, art house industrial sound."-The Wire (UK) "Excellent stuff." -John Peel

"Bändi on kyennyt kirjaimellisesti rakentamaan oman äänimaailmansa, joka poikkeaa kaikista muista yhtyeistä. CW on tehnyt avantgardesta tanssittavaa." -Helsingin Sanomat. "CW:n koko olemus on rytmiä alusta loppuun ja erilaisuutta lopusta alkuun. Se on yhtä aikaa edistyksellistä kodinkonerokkia ja primitiivistä teollisuusiskelmää." -Sue


Voit tilata Pulsator -cd:n myös tekstiviestillä:
lähetä viesti HINTA20 BV PULSATOR OMA NIMI, OSOITE numeroon 16369
(toimii kotimaassa DNA:n, Elisan, Kolumbuksen, Saunalahden, TeleFinlandin ja TeliaSoneran liittymistä ).
Saatuasi vahvistusviestin toimi siinä olevien ohjeiden mukaisesti. Vahvistusviestiin vastaamalla vahvistat tilauksesi. Levy tulee postitse suoraan ilmoittamaasi osoitteeseen. Levyn hinta (20 euroa) veloitetaan seuraavassa puhelinlaskussa.