Hirvikolari - Live At Raw Power Festival 23.05.15 by theQuietus

Last month's Raw Power Festival, spread over two days at Tufnel Park's Dome venue, was a fine health check for the UK peculiar music underground, with everyone from Circle to Guapo and Sex Swing to the preposterous Lumninous Bodies playing magnificently-received sets. My personal highlight though came from Saturday's opening act, Hirvikolari. Comprised of half of Teeth Of The Sea (Mike Bourne on modular synths, Sam Barton on brass) their allotted half hour of lunchtime was a gorgeous, transportive wander across a luminous veld, taking in grubby techno and hinting a Coil's Musick To Play In The Dark via a tripping colliery band, falling down an unguarded shaft after being led astray by Jon Hassell.