Music from Mira Kautto's contemporary dance piece "Station to Station to Station" Premiered in Zodiak Helsinki January 2019.
Limited vinyl 333 copies on Öm-Sound / Svart Records.
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released November 15, 2019
MUSIC COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY Timo Kaukolampi VOCALIZATION (Act 2, Act 4) Mira Kautto
PERCUSSION (Act 1, Act 3) Abdissa Assefa
STRING SAMPLES (Act 4) Lauri Porra
MASTERING Tuomas Salmela
LAYOUT Tomi Leppänen
DANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY Mira Kautto
LIGHT AND SET DESIGN Jenni Pystynen
PRODUCTION Zodiak – Center for New Dance and Mira Kautto
PHOTOS Ville Hyvönen
SUPPORTED BY Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse sr, [DNA] – Departures and Arrivals, Festival Homo Novus, Ehkä-production, Kekäläinen & Company, Great Amber Concert Hall
THANK YOU Anna Torkkel, Riikka Thitz, Alexandra Groover,
Kirsi Gum, Sarita Vepsäläinen, Jarno Parkkima, Johannes Vartola, Sara Gurevitsch, Samuli Alapuranen, Janne Paasonen, Joni Vesanen, Ana Dubljevic, Zodiak staff, Tuomo Tammenpää, Patrik Pesonius, Pietu Pietiläinen, naapuri Kimmo Pulkkinen

On his adventurous first new album in 5 years, Vladislay Delay renders an extreme ecology of electronic sound inspired by time spent above the arctic circle, surrounded by tundra and the raw force of nature and visually given life by Ripatti's wife, Antye Greie-Ripatti, aka AGF.
Although it features no location recordings, ’Rakka’ clearly imparts its theme thru a riveting palette of weathered textures, unyielding rhythms and the kind of reverberating, widescreen sound design that’s defined his catalogue of cult, contemporary music since the late ‘90s. While Vladislav been notably absent from release schedules in recent years - aside from working on the soundtrack to ‘The Revenant’ (2015) recording with Sly & Robbie (more of that to come) in 2018 - this new album is surely a bracing reminder of his knack for creating utterly immersive environments at the poles of ambient, dub, and noise.
Inspired by the struggle to survive in unforgiving conditions, the music patently resembles a number of styles associated with music from northerly latitudes. Elemental traces of Scandinavian black metal, Pan Sonic or Deathprod-like power electronics and Thomas Köner-esque ambient isolationism are all detectable in the album’s brutal panoramas, and evidently speak to a shared conception of the extreme arctic’s uncontrolled and uncorrupted wilds, and their frighteningly magnetic sort of push/pull on the senses.
Titled in Vladislav’s typically alliterative style, the tracks cascade in aggressive iterations of gravel-swilled rhythm and tonal attrition. The barely-harnessed might of opener, ‘Rakka’ triggers a chain reaction on events that follows into a sort of blast-beaten ambience in ‘Raajat’, and what sounds like throttled blvck metvl vocals meshed with flashcore in ‘Rakkine’, whilst ‘Rampa’ hammers home a martial noise techno tattoo, and the final couplet take this sound to its logical end-of-earth degrees with breathtaking form.
‘Rakka’ is certain to both reaffirm and upend what listeners know and love about Vladislav Delay, while firmly galvanising his sound for an unsure future.

The new Lau Nau album "Hem. Någonstans" will be out in July 2015 on Fonal Records!
”Hem. Någonstans” is the fourth album of Lau Nau. This time she takes us to the fleeting borderline between contemporary classical and experimental music, true to her idiosyncratic style. The electroacoustical orchestrations of the album pilot the listener through an archipelago of cloud constellations to rest and dream on massive pillows of sound. It’s also clear that Pekko Käppi, the emperor of jouhikko, a Finnish traditional string instrument, has left his mark on the album by playing all the string arrangements.
Except one song, ”Hem. Någonstans” is an instrumental album and rare of it’s kind: it’s a soundtrack album to a similarily named documentary film by Lotta Petronella (”Home. Somewhere”, Fisher King Productions 2015). Think of an action film that takes place in a far away archipelago, but where most of the action happens inside the minds of the characters. In addition to the tree main characters of the film, Lau Nau’s music arises as the fourth character of the film. It’s born with a soul.

“Still Lives” is the third solo full length by the Finnish composer Marja Ahti, following a pair of releases on the Hallow Ground imprint. As a collection, it may be seen as a series of studies on the liminality of the listening act and an investigation into the physicality of sound. Ahti forges vivid electroacoustic environments from field recordings, analog synthesizers, acoustic feedback, magnetic tape and digital processing, resulting in a set of articulate, prickly, and surprising compositions. In the artist’s words, “These pieces could be conceived of as vanitas paintings of a kind – selections of mundane or archetypal objects, sounds that have their own distinct qualities, but exist only by virtue of being temporary events. From another angle, one could think of them as shrines – objects assembled and set in a particular relationship to each other, charging each other in their given constellations.” Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a musician and composer based in Turku, Finland. Originally from Sweden, Ahti has been a part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years in different constellations. She is currently active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner and as a member of the Himera artist/organizer collective.

40 minutes of psychedelic noise from Finnish master Ilkka Vekka. Kosmische synth musik for mind expansion and disruption. Destroy Fascism, Love Forever! Edition of 100, full colour J-cards, chrome cassettes dubbed in real time.
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