Arto Lindsay - Encyclopedia Of Arto (2014)

The first CD includes tracks Lindsay has chosen from his solo albums from the period between 1996 and 2004. In the second CD we find a solo performance by Arto, voice and guitar; a naked, cutting sound where the vocal melodies and the atonal guitar playing manage to epitomize all his “musical poetics.
Lindsay’s approach is fascinating largely because of the way he flicks from relaxed to tightly wound in a heartbeat, making it sound like he’s soaking up the sun on some back porch somewhere and then unleashing a beat-heavy strain of claustrophobic electronics...Instead of trying to make sense of things, to summarize the unsummarizable, this compilation simply pits chaos and order against one another and lets a beautiful mess unfold." — Pitchfork

Encyclopedia of Arto, coming out May 20th for Northern Spy Records, is a photograph of the musical world created by Arto Lindsay. A double CD that presents the different musical souls that have always been the basis of the musical creativity of this American musician and composer.