{"title":"Vladislav Delay","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"hide-behind-the-silence-ep-5","title":"Hide Behind The Silence EP 5","description":"\u003cp\u003eVladislav Delay presents the fifth and last EP in his \"Hide Behind The Silence\" series. Intuitive and raw music, momentary and reflective, released on Ripatti's own label \"Rajaton\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rajaton","offers":[{"title":"Black 10\"","offer_id":50417167728971,"sku":"2171385","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_55_72787341_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726719776"},{"product_id":"vladislav-delay-quartet","title":"Vladislav Delay Quartet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There's absolute freedom here to do what you think is right,\" explains \u003cstrong\u003eVladislav Delay\u003c\/strong\u003e, referring to his home on Hailuoto, a speck of an island off Finland's northern coast, in the frigid Gulf of Bothnia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"There's no scene to bother me,\" he adds, \"or to remind me of the mostly negative aspects of the music business.\" Delay has always been a maverick artist. But after relocating to Hailuoto in 2008, what he calls 'absolute freedom' has become the de facto muse guiding his music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn 2009's \u003cem\u003eTummaa\u003c\/em\u003e, Delay cracked open ambient dub's hermetically sealed aesthetic and ushered in elements of jazz-fusion, free improv, and industrial noise. \u003cem\u003eTummaa\u003c\/em\u003e is dark, restless, and challenging. It's also a stepping stone, one that leads directly to \u003cstrong\u003eVladislav Delay Quartet\u003c\/strong\u003e, the musician's most radical statement to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough this absolute freedom is inextricably linked to the relative isolation of his Finnish home, Delay's latest record is very much a product of collective participation and multiple locales. In Derek Shirley, Lucio Capece, and Mika Vainio, Delay has found three musicians more than willing to translate such a nonnegotiable concept into sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA balance is reached between individuality and the demands of the unit. \"This ensemble,\" says Shirley, \"functions as four individual and strong voices meeting together in the middle.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBefore dropping needle to wax, it's tempting to frame VDQ as an extension of the Moritz von Oswald Trio, which Delay also participates in. After all, each one is an electro-acoustic ensemble led by one of ambient dub's most prominent architects. But as Delay is quick to point out, \"MVOT is Moritz's thing. I bring my sounds and percussion into what he has in mind. 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RIYL Shackleton, Rian Treanor...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere 2020’s \u003ci\u003eRakka\u003c\/i\u003e represented some of Sasu Ripatti aka Vladislav Delay’s most intensely noisy textures and rhythmic complexity, as inspired by walks in his native Finnish wilderness, his follow-up further draws on and refines that experience in a beautifully brutalist bouquet of brambling distortion and tempestuous pulses that speak to the chaotic power of nature’s ecological interdependence. In the process \u003ci\u003eRakka II\u003c\/i\u003e fulminates Delay’s reactive sound even closer to the styles of Shapednoise, but still distinguished by his signature, freehanded style of percussive tumult that reaches beyond techno and club music into an ecstatic, holistic hybrid of power ambient, black metal, avant-dub, free jazz, and extreme dance musicks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile still breathlessly busy and densely overgrown, \u003ci\u003eRakka II\u003c\/i\u003e is intended as the romantic answer to the more hostile first volume. Its seven parts balance a sense of febrile passion with hyper-disciplined logic in more explicitly emotive, optimistic gestures that emerge from its atonal murk and convulsive structures. Boundaries of discord and harmony are smudged almost into the red, but rendered with the spatial definition that become a hallmark of Delay’s best work for over 20 years, but never heard quite so wild and lushly semi-conscious as on cuts such as the soaring and collapsing \u003ci\u003eRaato\u003c\/i\u003e, or the craggy might of \u003ci\u003eRaaha\u003c\/i\u003e, and the heart-in-mouth headiness of \u003ci\u003eRapaa.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cosmo Rhythmatic","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50460860252491,"sku":"1120502","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6c04ed8d-11a2-48b9-a0f5-f3ff1daaf413_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727239305"},{"product_id":"500-push-up","title":"500 Push Up","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Mille Plateaux to Leaf, Staubgold and Raster-Noton, ~scape, among others, or on his own label Ripatti, the Finnish artist Sasu Ripatti aka Vladislav Delay has been exploring various iterations of the 'dub culture vs. Electronica', since 1997. His sonic crafts and unique signature sound has been sought after by an eclectic range of bands and artists, ranging from Massive Attack, Hauschka, Black Dice, Autopoieses, Animal Collective or AGF. Somewhere between the old-school electronica culture, the soundscaping, the experimental paths of Lee Perry and Adrian Sherwood, ghostly clubbing anthems, minimalism, pop, jazz, without being influenced, Vladislav Delay is building a drifting and coherent sound enigma. Vladislav Delay met Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare (the most prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo) thanks to a series of jam sessions. Trumpet player Nils-Petter Molvaer had been asked by the Jamaicans to join them and he invited Delay alongside guitar player Eivind Aarset to tag along, which eventually turned into the Nordub project. The result of these jam sessions turned into an album, mixed and mostly produced by Vladislav Delay, released on the label Okeh. It was also followed by an extensive series of live dates. This one-shot reunion was the beginning of another story: a trio composed by Delay, Dunbar and Shakespeare. In January 2019, Vladislav Delay went to Kingston and spent some days at The Anchor studios, to record drums and bass with S\u0026amp;R, some voice takes and a series of atmospheric field recordings. Back to Finland, Delay started to experiment with this precious material, mixing and overdubbing, in the comfort and quiet of his studio, based on the island of Hailuoto, Baltic Sea, Northern Finland, giving another feeling to the Jamaican trip. This became a tribute to the 'dub spirit', but in a very personal way, far beyond any influence or \"the obvious\". \u003ci\u003e500 Push Up\u003c\/i\u003e is two worlds collapsing, merging, also showing some intriguing approach of the Jamaican groove, used as a filigree, like the echo or the ghost of reggae, converging and conversing with a post-industrial and experimental approach. 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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. 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