(Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental) Permanent Clear Light - Beyond These Things - 2013, MP3, 192 kbps

Permanent Clear Light (PCL) is a fairly new psychedelic and prog rock band from Finlandia, home of Santa Claus. The band was formed in 2009 but its members have long backgrounds in the Finnish rock, pop, folk-rock, jazz, experimental, avant-garde and psychedelic scenes. Permanent Clear Light’s recording debut was in 2010 on the British Fruits de Mer Records and the band have since received very favourable reviews in the (mainly) British music press as well as a lot of airplay around the world. The band members are:
Markku Helin: guitars E-Bow+, Theremin, oscillators, bass, effects, legal advice
Arto Kakko: percussion, vocals, electric violin, bass, Mellotron, keys, slide guitar, cornet, banjo, sundry implements
Matti Laitinen: lead vocals, guitar, synths, physical training
So far, Permanent Clear Light has released seven tracks on various Fruits de Mer compilation albums and EPs. Also, the Greek psychedelic magazine, TimeMazine, released a Permanent Clear Light track, And the Skies Will Fall, during autumn 2012. The band’s debut single, Higher Than the Sun, was released on Fruits de Mer in December 2012. Record Collector magazine (UK) reviewed the single in its November 2012 issue and commented: “Two coloured vinyls, 3D cover and glasses….Ain’t the music trippy enough?” Classic Rock magazine (December 2012, UK) named Permanent Clear Light “Finland’s top psychedelic band” and predicted that the single, Higher Than the Sun, “is destined to become a collectors’ classic”. Steve Kilbey, leader of the legendary Australian psychedelic band, The Church, commented: “I love Permanent Clear Light. Finnish psychedelia is King!” on PCL’s Facebook page in February 2013. PCL also had a full page feature in the March 2013 issue of Guitar Player magazine (USA).
Permanent Clear Light’s debut album, Beyond These Things (HVSP0001), was released in May 2013 in both CD and digital download formats on the band’s own Havasupai Records. The album tracks vary from gently shimmering and melodic psychedelic pop to powerful and aggressive prog rock. At times, the music is wildly euphoric and skyrockets its way into celestial, psychedelic spheres never visited before. The gentler ballads on the album celebrate the overwhelming joy of the wonders of human life. The darker side of the album represents the ultimate sense of disappointment with what the modern way of life has to offer.
The members of PCL play a great variety of instruments, which adds extra texture especially on the longer tracks, which, at times, border on fusion jazz rock. But, instead of going the retro way, and regardless of “this year’s “craze”, Permanent Clear Light is determined to continue its search for “the lost chord” and the psychedelic sounds of the spheres, looking forward rather than back.
The present album version is from the upcoming (March 2015) G.O.D. (Garden Of Dreams) Records edition from Athens, Greece whith the extra bonus track ''Harvest Time Revisited''