elämääajatuksia

Elämää ajatuksia is a Finnish compact disc released by jazz musician Pekka Pylkkänen in 1992. The album is a heavy free jazz work that features Pylkkänen on saxophone and Pepe Hernán on drums. It includes four tracks, including a 24-minute title piece that is divided into two parts.

The music on Elämää ajatuksia is characterized by rapid tempos, dense improvisational structures, and irregular rhythms. Pylkkänen and Hernán engage in collage-like instrumentation, combining sounds from a variety of sources to create an aural seascape of sound. The album's atmosphere is often jagged and dramatic, though it also includes moments of concentration and tempers a level primitivism.

Elämää ajatuksia has been cited as an influential work in the free jazz and free improvisation idioms, shaping the sound of subsequent experimental works by other Finnish musicians. It has also received critical attention for its political implications, which have been seen as a response to the disillusion with the post-socialist era following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Concerning reception, Allmusic.com wrote the album is a rare event of maximalistic traits. They also noted that the live manner of the ensemble, generated Clashlike transmission versus psychoacoustic sensation produced a slight communal bitterness after half release.Pekka Pylkkänen and the rest performance failed reflected artificialities May drift publication but contagious enthusiasm.