Book of Nature is the 3rd album from the forest trance
master Haltya. Ranging from floor filling party stompers (Mean Green
Monster Theme) to sophisticated funky arrangements (Borboleta Purpura)
this one is wrapped in a most imaginative cover art that reflects
straight to the music. This Haltya album is produced by the multitalented
producer Tommi Sirkiä alone. Haltya has a firm and solid fan
base and Book of Nature will definitely not disappoint them. The
two former albums (Forest Flavour & Electric Help Elves) were
impressive but this one is taking Haltya to the next level of existence
by being super groovy and diverse from the boring lo-fi crap that
is sadly so common in the electric music scene these days.
Track By Track:
Nature's Secret
This masterfully tweaked vocal intro enthusiastically jumps you
into the mood to enjoy this album to its maximum.
Rainbow Funkster
The first major track of this album lives up to its name... a
groovy house bassbeat creates the current for bouncy layers of
synth repetitions, licks, and loops which catch you into their
rhythm without you noticing it. As fit for a blues club on Friday
night as a foresty daytime dancefloor, this retro hippie jam trance
makes a great warm-up eye opener.
Finny Funny Finished
"Finny" picks up the pace a bit yet retains that same
"live" feel as its forbearer. This track takes a great
analog sounding bassline, pairs it with some disco licks, a stomping
four on the floor beat, and enough tweaky sound bites put in all
the right places and whips it up into a squelchy dancefloor cacophony
which really raises the energy level.
Kawaii Bushido
This short, abstract breakdown seems to suddenly snap your psyche
into another plane for a few second, leaving your body in suspended
animation.
Borboleta Purpura
This is tropical island trance from the get go, with moods of
jumping beach parties, drinks with little straw hats, and exotic
flowery sexuality spilling out in every direction. At the same
time, subtle yet influential, are arrays of alien synth squirts
expressing the very same emotions using vastly different mediums.
This one grows on you in a big way.
Daisy Chain
Here's a slice of jazzy audio spice for you... Sexy bass percussion
accompanies a catchy melody which lures you in and tugs your dance
strings easily. A great outdoorsy track great for building up
positive energy, with the addition of groovy old-school electric
piano for an extra touch of retro groove.
Between The Notes
A minute long breakdown completely foreign to the moods between
it jerk your attention without remorse to another plane and other
perspectives.
Mean Green Monster Theme
Upon reawakening, you'll feel you're in a vastly different space.
"Mean Green" has an epic intro paying tribute to B-movie
horror before menacingly launching you into a disturbingly great
nighttime trance beat. Glitchy and creepy to the max, the track
takes this album from happy nighttime soundscapes to the eerie
foresty darkness, and well done at that.
Firecracker
This track is a mind-boggler. Images of neon, video gamey Tokyo
futurama come to mind as acid sliced synth static colludes with
bit reduced square rhythms. Distended xylophones and other random
audio chaos floats through the sound layers as everything you
hear gradually becomes more and more nightmarish and twisted upon
itself.
Make It Look Like An Accident
Another interlude blurs the images before your ears and teleports
you again into a new interplanar audio environment.
Fry
This track of duelling bassbeats seems to be a Mexican standoff
of New Orleans jazz maestros. Psychedelic and groovy, this is
an electro rump shaker of a musical piece that could easily be
performed onstage in smoky alleyway blues joints. A stellar danceable
breakbeat holds it all together, constantly refreshing and moving
the music along.
Mothership
This psychotropic trance track is a hit on all the intergalactic
radio stations. Funky, fresh slap bass licks underlie cloudy layers
of echoed synth sweeps and crisp, clear high-hats which vault
the ceiling of the soundscape nicely. This track is a definite
builder-upper, taking you to uncharted sectors of your mind upon
the dancefloor.
Walking on Sunshine
Haltya takes all the best sounds of the seventies' discothèque
and reworks them to a degree that can only be achieved through
21st century talent and technology. Here is a creation drawn from
the past and the present, fused together to take the listener
into their future. This music creates an alien space right here
on Earth and lifts you into its clouds.
