Festivaali has a band, an audience and a dancefloor – Aavikko has three members. This three-man band from Siilinjärvi will keep the dancefloor packed in Pyynikki! Aavikko plays functional utility music, generating electronic sounds using synthesisers. With its history of more than twenty years, the band is a utopian culmination of Eastern retrofuturistic synthetiser bands of past ages, determined beating rhythms and catchy melodies that compel people to dance. The band’s expression can best be summarised by these three words: melody, harmony and rhythm. Muysic non stop.
‘Muysic’, the term used by the band to describe its music, is intoxicatingly captivating in all its simplicity. Recorded already on six albums, the expression is enchanting like entertainment logos or supermarket shelves. It’s not a sound of trust in technology itself, but of the will to use electronic technology as a pathway to people’s hearts and souls. Impossibility not to dance is one of the defining characteristics of the band’s live performances – it’s also summarised in this simple command heard at the band’s gigs: “we play, you dance”.