** Special offer, limited quantity available: 6 LP Bundle, includes “Vitamins” (double album), “Vertical Pillars”, “Vitae Tennis Nest”, “Mangala” and “Love and Addiction”. ** Among the unsung visionaries of European experimental music, Pekka Airaksinen stands apart—a composer, mystic, and outsider who shaped an entire cosmos of sound on his own terms. After his provocative beginnings with Sperm in the late 1960s—an anarchic blend of performance art, electronics, and subversive theater—Airaksinen retreated from the public eye to explore music as a spiritual, intuitive practice deeply informed by Buddhist philosophy.
The LPs reissued by One Point Life reveal this quiet revolution. Originally composed between the mid-70s and early 90s, and sometimes reworked in the early 2000s, these recordings were self-released in minuscule editions and distributed far from commercial circuits. Ranging from electroacoustic explorations to cosmic jazz, devotional electronics to aleatoric systems, they embody a metaphysical approach to sound—where form emerges through intuition, meditation, and mathematical transformation.
Albums like Mangala, Vertical Pillars, and Meditation are dense, luminous environments where synthesizers converse with drum machines, spiritual references mingle with modular feedback, and rhythm cycles unfold like mandalas. His work defies linear progression, instead unfolding like constellations—each release a point of entry into a broader, shifting terrain. Often featuring his own abstract paintings as cover art, Airaksinen’s albums are not just musical experiences, but portals. Whether channeling the names of celestial Buddhas into compositions, or generating harmonies from star coordinates, he sought to transcend ego and reach into what he called “suprahuman concepts.” The result is one of the most fascinating and singular discographies in modern electronic music—deeply personal, defiantly obscure, and finally available again.
