"I realise I spend a lot of time banging on about Finland, droney improvisational hippy music, distorted tape sounds and experimental warbling and clattering, so imagine my joy when a disc arrived which ticked all of these boxes within the first 5 minutes. Coming across like a faint signal of life from far away planets, Uton is best aligned with the subtle noodlings of Jewelled Antler lynchpins Thuja, with distorted analogue synthesizers, bowed guitars and unnamed small instruments blended together to form a sort of audio fog. This is how minimal music should sound, it's not minimal to the point of forcing you to try and hear if there's anything happening at all, it's merely quiet and underplayed and it is painstakingly woven together with an incredible display of skill and restraint. More interestingly though, there's a huge chunk of Radiophonic Workshop/Early Electronic style experimentation on offer here, more in line with something you'd hear on the hallowed Ohm boxset than maybe on your latest collection of 'free folk'. We have heard this angle explored by Kemialliset Ystävät in his Fonal emissions, yet Uton takes things one step further and
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