Ununoctium / Gomila Park

The penultimate issue of raster-noton's unun series features Gomila park, a new project by the two Swedish musicians Martin Rössel and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff that started in spring 2013 in Palma De Mallorca. On their first EP released as a duo, they present three rather unconventional and diverse tracks. "Leibniz", for example, is characterized by a heavy rock attitude with lots of distortion and screaming guitar riffs. The b-side on the other hand, including the tracks "Calculus" and "Ramon llull", is the more experimental part. Considering only the track titles, Gomila Park is a homage to two of the first mathe- maticians and philosophers that helped developing the binary system and, generally speaking, the digital world. but despite all that, Gomila Park is also a matured piece of work that was held in trust for at least two years. It's once more an inspection of a fundamental possibility of music, a reference to the past. similar to Mika Vainio's "vandal" EP, Gomila Park echoes the tradition of rock (music) and is thus the counterpart of a younger, historically unbur- dened generation of producers like Ueno Masaaki or Kyoka.