Unicef - Käkimassaa
"Scraping tonsil bites of harsh vocal growlings overpower the raw early punk flavour that this Finnish ensemble grind out. Not the "stereotyped" Finish assault of chaotic thrash, but something more in the line of Personality Crisis or Skrewdriver*, building a vulgar progression of power thrusted into snarling hacks. Unicef contains former members of LAMA, but this band is very different. A gargling release."
-Pushead, from MRR, 1983 (taken from KFTH)
*= The song Käkimassaa IS actually a cover of Skrewdriver song "You`re So Dumb" (the pre-Nazi, original Skrewdriver, which had nothing to do with Ian Stuarts later stupidity).
Yup, that pretty much says it all. Unicef was an extreme band, with their furious stage antics ("assistents" with baseball bats, on-stage fights etc.) and they never released anything but this 3-track single. Vocalist Tino died in 1995, if I remember correctly, so chances of seeing this band are nil. There happens to be a short documentary about his life, which won a couple of awards in European film festivals.
01 - Käkimassaa
02 - Orkku
03 - 251
posted by arsi @ Thursday, August 03, 2006
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whats the name of that documentary about the singers life (which won a couple of awards in European film festivals)?
Hi, the name of the film is "Tino", it was directed in 1994 by Tahvo Hirvonen and produced by Pettufilmi Oy. There's a short clip of it in Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R78BTNolTuw
The actual singer of Unicef was Jusa (also deceased), but Tino also sang occasionally. He died Nov 5th 1995.
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