Cleaning Women
Pulsator
Cleaning Women's 'Pulsator' back on the market for the first time on wax. Cleaning Women was founded in Finland back in 1996. The band is known for their self-made instruments, androgynous image, and including interdisciplinary arts in their live performances. Cleaning Women is an experimental group consisting of three cleaning robots (CW01, CW03 and CW04). Besides their unique music, Cleaning Women is known for their alternative ways in choosing their instruments. The origin of their acoustic sound can be traced to self-made and self-customized instruments, which are crafted from mangled household items or material salvaged from trash bins. But what it is that makes them really special is the way they sound. Even though the starting point is avant-gardish and experimental, the end result is jaw-dropping combination of skilled musicianship, original soundscapes and easily accessible, even danceable music - a combination of cinematic sci-fi western and sparkling trash can disco. The 2001 debut album 'Pulsator' already had the band's high standards to use only self-made instruments in the studio as well as performing live. The universe of sound heard on 'Pulsator' consists of mic'd and tuned up clothes racks, strings set up on the hanger rods of wardrobes, a wine fermentation vessel, jars, buckets and other scrap material, bizarre vocal parts with partially made-up languages, and a scat-solo by legendary Finnish artist M.A. Numminen.