2007 - Autumn
Some reviews of Bootleg Epiphanies:
"The tracks are brilliant in sound and it makes a Class-A amplifier struggle: Impressively layered sound-collages and noisescapes. And it's all just a sample from "hundreds of hours of work and experiments". Something like the Merzbox or the TG24 would have been an idea also, though it remains to be seen whether all material is as magickal as these chosen few." (Gothtronic)
"Rajapinta doesn't opt for the true all out wall of noise, but rather make a sharp combination of floating samples, letting them bounce up and down the scale, thus creating quite a lively set of music. Plus it's not all noise that rings around here. They know how to pull back and put on a softer tune. Heavy duty musique concrete, turntable madness and enough computer plug ins to create a hard disk crash, it all kind of makes great sense here." (Vital Weekly)
"For sure some [tracks] sound as sound experiments in the vein of the Boyd Rice/Frank Tovey collaborations, but they haven't the rhythmical construction of Easy listening for the hard of hearing and for this reason they could sound as 'sounds on the wild'. Tracks like Ion flux or Streched qi do have some kind of structure even if they are experimental tunes but most of them sounds like rolling sound pebbles which form a torrent of sound." (Chain DLK)
"This is not easy-listening music; in fact, very little about this release is easy to come to terms with - it is erratic, unsettling and more than a little frightening in its confrontational intensity. But it is nevertheless a monumental piece of modulated feedback set into sonic sculpture that makes no excuses for its avant-garde obscurity and absolute lack of mainstream appeal." ... "Its creators may be certifiably insane, but they know how to wrench every last nuance out of each tortured, snarling sample before chaining it into place with discordant, unexpected sequencing." (Connexion Bizarre)
"The sounds on offer range from ferocious noise barrages to Venetian Snares-style glitchcore, hard drive abuse and cut-up sample salads, with a cold, hard electronic sensibility as a unifying factor. It’s an interestingly varied collection, with highlights including the percussive assault of ’Spider March’, the shrieking, abrasive frequencies of ’Screamers’ the hypnotic, looped sound collage of ’Valo’ and the soaring power elecronics of ’La-Bas 2004’, the live track which closes the collection. A lot of tracks are mere fragments of a minute or so, though, and overall this is a frustratingly brief glimpse into the work of Rajapïnta, of which it is claimed that hundreds of hours exist, which makes me wonder what strange new realms of sound await discovery within that vast, unheard hinterland." (Judas Kiss)
"The disc contains 14 tracks of different length, all faithful to a cold and clinic approach to minimal, distorted and uncompromising electronics. There is enough variety of style between them to assure an interesting listening experience: extreme noise alternates to creepy ambient, power-electronics shifts into pulsating rhythms, walls of industrial frequencies move into hypnotic mantras of distortion." (Filth Forge)
2007 - July
Bootleg Epiphanies
Compilation of various material composed and recorded by Ibrahim Terzic and Niko Skorpio in various locations 2001-2006.
Compiled and edited by Niko Skorpio in May/June 2007 in order to document the hundreds of hours of work and experiments
Rajap?nta have done through these years. This is a semi-official, not-on-label release.
2006 - ?
2005 - July
Site back up after a brief hiatus (due to changing servers, sorry).
2005 - February
Post-Valentine Stress Disorder
Rajap?nta live @ Living Room in Turku, Finland, Saturday 2005/02/19!
End of hibernation, for now...
On a related note, also check out Squidraw live in Helsinki the day before! Squidraw = I.Terzic, F.Arana, A.Verhevarbeke.
2004 - December
Finally, a major update all over this site. Browse everywhere and get the treats. It's free. We will be adding more material (visual and audible) when time allows.
Rajap?nta are also, slowly, working on new material for the debut release.
2004 - August
Finally, a major update all over this site. Browse everywhere and get the treats. It's free.
2004 - May
Live @ La-bas in Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland 2004/05/06.
2003 - November
Recorded a one minute long track called Halofuj for a compilation CD to be released on Flying Swimming, Japan sometime in the future.
Live @ mbar, Helsinki, Finland 2003/11/18.
2003 - August
Live @ La-bas in Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland 2003/08/01.
2003 - March
The last tracks of Songs of the Weak completed and uploaded. SotW total : 21 tracks in 9 months. Delivery status: OK.
2002 - July
Songs of the Weak started.
2002 - January
Rajapinta formed on 2002/01/01.