Umpio

Umpio is a harsh noise artist from Finland, active since 2007. The man behind the moniker is Pentti Dassum, better known as the guitarist of now defunct jazzcore legends Deep Turtle. The unforgiving sound of Umpio is made by various home made junk instruments (or junkstruments as they are referred by Pentti himself) abused through a string of effect pedals. Releases so far include Avauz (Zerga), Stalkhausen (CD-R), Antabus (digital EP), Karu II (Musapojat / Zerga), Loinen (Zerga), Lasia lapsille (Zerga), Karu I+III (Nekorekords), Junk Electronix vol 1. (Nekorekords), Muelas (Freak Animal Records), Sauna (ObscureX Records), Karu IV (Nekorekords), Maggot Brain (split with Ronskibiitti, Nekorekords/Huge Bass Records), Umpio Meets Anal Barbara (Nekorekords), Dub Electronix vol 1. (Nekorekords), Recycled (Nekorekords), Kanyon (Nekorekords), and Peenemünde (ObscureX Records). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.