Onségen Ensemble Sign to Svart Records for New Album FEAR: Video Posted
Prog as fuck and a fair shade darker than was their self-released 2018 album, Duel (review here), the new single from Oulu, Finland’s Onségen Ensemble arrives with the formidable countryman backing of Svart Records and heralds the arrival of their third full-length, FEAR, sometime before the end of 2020. The band, as announced last December, hit the studio in February with producer Jamie Gomez Arellano at London’s famed Orgone Studios, and you can hear the results in the breadth of “Stellar,” for which there’s a video streaming at the bottom of this post. Sounds deep, and calls to mind some of Finnish psych’s more extreme fare, the quiet moments of Dark Buddha Rising stretched in another direction, perhaps.
Would you be surprised if I said I was looking forward to hearing more? Probably not if you clicked that review link above. These guys hooking up with Svart only makes sense — I said as much in that review — and if their path has taken them to someplace more grim for the LP as a whole — and there’s no guarantee it has; their sound is plenty diverse — then all the more so.
The following came down the PR wire in the reaches of morning:
ONSÈGEN ENSEMBLE and SVART RECORDS announce a worldwide partnership for the band’s upcoming album. New single out!
What happens when the prog-oddity ONSÈGEN ENSEMBLE and ORGONE STUDIOS’ world-class producer JAIME GOMEZ ARELLANO huddle up in the studio to record the band’s third album FEAR? The odds are that you’ll be mesmerized. The full-length album will be released by SVART RECORDS in late 2020.
Onségen Ensemble is a group of musicians from northern Finland. Being faithful to its own purpose, the spiritual home of Onségen keeps its doors open for everyone to enter. FEAR takes you to a mystical trip with excursions into wonderfully cinematic and flamboyant landscapes.
This constantly evolving ensemble was born in 2004 followed by two mini-cd releases Hiukkavaara Sessions (2005) and HottoïzzoH (2007). The debut album Awalaï was released in 2016 and the sophomore effort Duel in 2018.
New single ‘Stellar’ out now:
https://youtu.be/SKrkvaTDMp4
https://open.spotify.com/track/5IB4EtVBttj21wZyhgZyZ5?si=CJNTZM4NSha9lE4d0pvTlA
https://onsgenensemble.bandcamp.com/track/stellar
Onségen Ensemble, generation twenty-twenty – personnel in FEAR:
Pasi Anttila, Heikki Häkkilä, Esa Juujärvi, Merja Järvelin, Sami Lehtiniemi, Samuli Lindberg, Joni Mäkelä, Niina Vahtola and Mikko Vuorela.
https://www.facebook.com/onsegenensemble/
https://onsgenensemble.bandcamp.com/
http://www.onsegen.com/
www.svartrecords.com
www.facebook.com/svartrecords
www.youtube.com/svartrecords
