Isoviha, by Vladislav Delay

Isoviha

by Vladislav Delay

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miko yli-lankoski something I can deeply relate to. anxiety, confusion, dreams, and from time to time, loss of the sense of reality. this is what everyday life sounds like in my head. been listening to it on repeat 24/7, thus the album has quickly grown very intimate for me.
thanks Ripatti <3 Favorite track: Isorakas.

lacikosec soft and frenetic at the same time Favorite track: Isoviha.

Nathan Duin Recommended for Sasu's listeners that enjoy the noisier side of his discography.

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1.	Isovitutus 02:11	buy track
2.	Isosusi 03:31	buy track
3.	Isonuha 02:50	buy track
4.	Isotv 02:35	buy track
5.	iS 02:08	buy track
6.	Isoteko 03:02	buy track
7.	Isoviha 03:45	buy track
8.	Isorakas 02:14	buy track
9.	Isopaska 03:38	buy track
10.	Isooo 02:38	buy track
11.	Isovihane 02:54	buy track
12.	Isomulkku 02:23	buy track
13.	Isopieni 02:27	buy track

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Isoviha was recorded 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 albums which were a personal reflection 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 rugged power. 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 internally and 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 the dangerous overwhelming potential of ordinary objects and events: shimmering, hammering, crowds, radio distortion, ancient backfiring engines. It's hypermodern musique concrète, 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 the dead. As if time is non-linear, the response to toxicity and madness that drives the album feels even more appropriate now than when it was written four years ago and confirmation that the horrors of the past still darken the present.

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released July 15, 2022

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