CIRCLE - Pori CD Prog Metal The following year the single

The following year the single Took Advantage/Moral Support 12” was released incorporating then

and more importantly

an album which ultimately showcased said essentialness (of Parker’s “side man” sound) on 9 of its 19 tracks

Originally released in 1995 by Planet Records and reissued on CD in 2003 by The Pastels’ Geographic Music imprint

a ‘liberation of sound

CIRCLE - Pori CD Prog Metal The following year the singlePori is much more than just the fifth studio album by the Finnish experimental rock institution Circle. It's also the name of a small post industrial city near the Gulf of Bothnia, where Jussi Lehtisalo founded the group in 1991. In some senses, the music mirrors the character of the metropolis itself: tranquil, historic, and slightly monotonous but belied by grit, weirdness, and surprising artistic fertility. When it initially appeared on the