“Post-Biological Wildlife” is a 6-track album with electro-acoustic contemporary music by composer, musician and producer Juhani Silvola.

I'm thrilled: The music on this album is something of the best I've heard in the past few months! Compositional and music-performing craftsmanship and creativity combine to create a masterpiece. Listening was a real pleasure! The compositions captivate with creative simplicity, intelligence, with great attention to detail, and testify to an incredible sense of aesthetics and beauty. It is music that sounds like an artificial, futuristic soundscape of nature and wildlife - and it's very well done. Bravo!

Track number one "Ritualrytmikk" appears modest at first. But this first impression is a fallacy, as you will quickly notice. Every single sound appears razor-sharp, carefully edited and then skillfully arranged. The musical craftsmanship is convincing right from the start and thus draws the listener's attention. "Ritualrytmikk" is mainly percussive sounds with clear, stringent lines in the aesthetics of their arrangement, and with subtle but targeted dynamics: The arrangement of the sounds and the quality of the sound modifications captivate the listener within seconds with enormous suction power - not intrusive, but striking. An invitation to research: How wild can a "post-biological wildlife" be?
The first track then takes you directly to “Machines of Loving Grace”. This second piece bores like a needle into the percussive landscape, which was drawn with "Ritualrytmikk". The wildlife of this electroacoustic wilderness shows its claws and hunting skills. The music stalks the listener attentively ... what happens now? It's a hunt in the most delightful way; and I truly enjoy being the hunted one. This track immediately creates a cinema in the listener's mind. The listener finds himself in the middle of the music, surrounded, curious, driven, challenged: what's next? Not only are the percussions vibrated, but also one's own emotions, and everything gets electrified. An impressive composition - massive but never overwhelming. Fantastic!
The third track is titled "Vaster Than Empires". Here with skillful violin playing by Sarah-Jane Summers. The craftsmanship of instrumental performance and composition is still maintained at a very high level. A composition in which tenderness and tension are paired - playing around each other, carefully probing and then falling over each other. What a dynamic! I listen spellbound and become part of a very intimate and intense moment, in the middle of a large, lively jungle. Where is the journey going now?
With "20th Century Meditation" the journey goes deeper into this jungle ... As a listener you really feel like a researcher on a wilderness expedition. Now the music is pulsating, mystical: the lianas of the mallet percussions surround the listener. At the end of the piece you wake up like from a dream - or was it real?
“Post-Biological Wildlife”: It sounds like a woodpecker is pounding, the wind is blowing, birds are chirping ... The electro-acoustic music with all its facets and differences is equally balanced: harmonious and virtuoso at the same time. Somewhere between fact and fiction, between natural history and fairy tales. Magical, futuristic and realistic - all at the same time. The listener has arrived at the edge of the forest: more bright spots, more transparency, more air. Chirping here and there. Stop! Wait! Listen! What was that?
With "Speculative Phonography pt. 1", the last track on the album, the listener suddenly realizes that he is not in a dream world anymore, and that he is not a researcher who understands everything and who has everything under control, but is actually still being hunted. The "sound predator" likes the transparency into which it has preyed: the field is open and wide for the grand finale of the chase. The tension rises (skillfully evoked), step by step, the breathing comes closer, and finally the hunter and the hunted face each other. What exactly is happening here? It feels like a complete fusion of music and listening experience: Who is the one breathing? The listener or the music? Everything seems to be interwoven. The hunter and the prey have become one, the boundaries between music and humans, electronics and acoustics have dissolved.

My research results: These compositions of Juhani Silvola show us that music lives on regardless of the sound possibilities of the future; free in the meaning of wide-ranging, wild in the meaning of challenging, and purposeful in regards of artistic expression - in every kind of soundscape. Highly Recommended!