Arkades is the twenty-first album by the Finnish experimental rock band Circle. It was originally released in 2006 by Fourth Dimension Records as part of a series of vinyl-only albums by Circle which document their often improvised freeform live shows. The original release contained two side-long tracks recorded for the WFMU radio station in Jersey City, New Jersey, on 27 September 2005. The original sleeve notes, which imagine Circle as a gang of Jack Daniel's-swigging, gun-toting bandeleros, were provided by the station's music director Brian Turner.
Experimental rock is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with some of the genre's distinguishing characteristics being improvisational performances, avant-garde influences, odd instrumentation, opaque lyrics, unorthodox structures and rhythms, and an underlying rejection of commercial aspirations.
Circle is a Finnish experimental rock band formed in Pori in 1991. Their eclectic, ever-changing style has been associated with genres such as krautrock, heavy metal, progressive rock, and ambient. On some albums they have defined themselves as New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metal (NWOFHM).
Fourth Dimension Records is a British record label, specialising in international underground music. It was founded by Gary Levermore as an offshoot of his Third Mind label before being taken over by Richard Johnson in 1984. The label became quite successful in the 1990s, releasing music by Simon Wickham-Smith & Richard Youngs, KK Null, The Gerogerigegege, Circle, Splintered (band), Thurston Moore, Hijokaidan (band), and Merzbow, side projects by members of Amp and Skullflower and myriad 7" and 10" singles by experimental artists from the UK, US, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Japan. Alongside the label, Johnson also ran a mail order service, stocking rare underground releases from around the world.
The subsequent CD release, also on Fourth Dimension, added an extra CD of unreleased material recorded in a concert at Kludi, Tampere, Finland, on 29 March 2005.
Tampere is a city in Pirkanmaa, southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries.
Jussi Lehtisalo, is a Finnish bassist. In 1991 he founded Circle, a prolific band drawing influences from heavy metal and krautrock to develop a style of repetitive experimental rock. He also runs a record label, Ektro Records, releasing his own music alongside left field rock and metal releases by artists such as Faust and Acid Mothers Temple.
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