Encoder ....: lame
Grabber ....: EAC
Source .....: CDDA
Quality ....: VBRkbps/44.1kHz
Tracks .....: 07
Genre ......: Ambient
Year .......: 2009
Rip Date ...: 14-08-2009
Label ......: n/a
01. Melankolia : 10:58
02. Kuula (Kiitos) : 09:02
03. Mustelmia : 08:13
04. Musta Planeetta : 05:11
05. Toive : 11:09
06. Tummaa : 10:19
07. Tunnelivisio : 11:16
TOTAL TIME : 66:08 min
TOTAL SIZE : 75,0 MB
Sasu Ripatti will reprise his Vladislav Delay guise
for the follow up to 2007's Whistleblower album later
this year.
Ripatti also goes under the names Luomo, Uusitalo,
Conoco and Sistal, but his earliest work can be traced
back to the dub and jazz inflected electronica of the
Vladislav Delay project. Previous albums under that
name have been released on the much lauded Chain
Reaction and Mille Plateaux labels as well as his own
Huume Recordings, but this time he'll be partnering up
with Leeds-based imprint Leaf for what will be his
ninth Vladislav Delay full-length. Entitled Tummaa,
the album will showcase Ripatti's "introverted and
slightly darker side," with Sasu explaining that
"Tummaa means dark or darkness, which reflects the
music on the album somehow but also the fact that I
worked on the album during 'kaamos' time of the year
in Finland. Kaamos time really gets dark from December
to February where you only have few hours of light per
day. I really liked that and the whole winter
enormously."
Over the past couple of years, Ripatti has also been
playing as part of the Moritz von Oswald Trio, but
Tummaa sees him command a trio all of his own, with
Argentine musician Lucio Capece (clarinet and
saxophone) and Scottish composer and arranger Craig
Armstrong (piano and Fender Rhodes) fleshing out his
own live percussion. Indeed, this means that Tummaa is
a retreat from his more electronically-focused
projects, with Sasu confirming that he "wanted to take
a new direction with Vladislav Delay, with more
acoustic sound sources. I avoided as much electronics
as possible, wanting to bring myself closer to my
background as a drummer and percussionist."