Isoviha

Isoviha wasrecorded four years ago, inspired by ideas that Sasu Ripatti (aka Vladislav Delay) had been reflecting on for a long time. This album is a counterpart to his two Rakka albumswhichwere a personalreflection on the nature and sound-world of the northern Arctic wilderness, 1000 kilometres north of where he lives on the Finnish island of Hailuoto. It's an area he loves to explore, trekking out alone to enjoy its ruggedpower. However the sound world of Isoviha is a return to man-made civilization. Musically Isoviha presents a more complicated world than Rakka; overloaded and unpredictable, audio archaeology that layers and juxtaposes everyday sounds into intense sculptures of noise and drone. As a musical observation internallyand externally, it's influenced by the heightened anxious intensity Sasu feels when returning from the empty wilderness. The ratcheting up of urban noise on Isoviha is built with insistent loops that seem to malfunction the faster they spiral and thedangerous overwhelmingpotential of ordinary objects and events: shimmering, hammering, crowds, radio distortion, ancient backfiring engines. It's hypermodern musique concrte, married to a jazz drummer's intuitive sense of rhythm. Going back even further in time but still tethered to the local, Isoviha also means 'the great wrath' and refers to a time in Finland under Russian occupation in the 1700s.A time when all the Islanders of Hailuoto were killed, apart from a single couple who were left to bury th

Tracks

1~1~Isovitutus
1~2~Isosusi
1~3~Isonuha
1~4~Isotv
1~5~Is
1~6~Isoteko
1~7~Isoviha
1~8~Isorakas
1~9~Isopaska
1~10~Isooo
1~11~Isovihane
1~12~Isomulkku
1~13~Isopieni

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Vladislav Delay
Release Date: 15 July 2022
Genre: Special Interest / Miscellaneous
Label: Planet Mu Records
Distributor: MGM Music