Vladislav Delay Isoviha

• Vladislav Delay – Isovitutus
• Vladislav Delay – Isosusi
• Vladislav Delay – Isonuha
• Vladislav Delay – Isotv
• Vladislav Delay – iS
• Vladislav Delay – Isoteko
• Vladislav Delay – Isoviha
• Vladislav Delay – Isorakas
• Vladislav Delay – Isopaska
• Vladislav Delay – Isooo
• Vladislav Delay – Isovihane
• Vladislav Delay – Isomulkku
• Vladislav Delay – Isopieni

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

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 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.