Vladislav Delay - Anima

haven't heard it (yet) - any connection with the Bowie song?

I read a few years ago that Vladislav had a full time job and he kept music a part time hobby and that made helped him relax about making/selling records and enjoy himself.

What a novel idea!

Ugh... substitute 'overtly' for 'consistently' in what I wrote above. I need to start reading what I write before I hit submit.

It's about degrees of warmth. Most of Ripatti's productions are warm in that muggy all-enveloping way (I'd make a sauna analogy if I was cheap), whereas The Present Lover's warmth feels much more understated to me. The drums are much crisper, and it lacks those layers of hiss and noise which bind everything together.

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no warm. no way.

aside from vocalcity, the first uusitalo lp is one my favorites, but they are all very very good. anima too! and that one on chain reaction. and entain! it's been a long time since i've heard any of these.

has anyone heard the dolls? how about the sistol release?

Delay is consistently awesome whenever he sticks to 4/4 dancefloor tracks, otherwise, he tends to wibble away into tiresome chin-stroking zzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

Meh. I thought we already had a thread about the Dolls album, but I thought it was dull, dull, dull. I suppose I was most disappointed with Craig Armstrong's (non-)contribution. "Phoned-in" was the phrase I used last time.

new one 'Tummaa" is reminding me of, like, Carter Tutti or something. Spaced piano-centric tracks with weird noises.

^^^what was i on? i listened to this record three times at most.

i mean the uusitalo record. i've listened to anima at least 4.

it's not a tummaa

hey i like tummaa.

i LOVE taking a nap to Whistleblower. i would go so far as to say that i hadn't really heard it until i drifted in and out of sleep to it. there is something so pleasurable and sleep-inducing about searching for patterns in the broken percussion and halting bass with the atmospheric ambient sound drifting all around. normally the broken rhythm would bother me, but something about the muffled quality and the way brief memories of songs sneak in and out makes it awesome. being familiar with his other stuff makes it even more evocative as the sounds are often very similar, so you can almost hear fragments of Luomo churned and melted into it.

i don't like Tummaa as much so far, it's darker, harsher, and more angular, whereas Whistleblower is more muted and distant.

Has anyone seen the Vladislav Delay Trio perform? I'm wondering what's that like, and if it's at all similar to the Moritz Von Oswald group.

Sorry, Vladislav Delay Quartet

new sistol album is nice

whistleblower is very good yes, maybe the best under that alias after anima

SO GOOD
http://vimeo.com/14943763

Anima is RIDICULOUSLY good, so touchable and palpable and dewy and slithery, DNA sequences and slippery slides into beautiful little pools of splishing translucent gurgles. Cannot, will not, front on it.

u just did

naima the live version is alright iirc

Anima feels like an extended "face rubbed in the forest dirt" version of the Twin Peaks closing-credits music.

It's on some Robert Ashley type shit, too. Too sleepy to be awake to and too alert to sleep to.

It's so loose and free feeling that it's hard to believe that it's programming...

i just started listening to anima and i adored it from the first second on. and i could not believe that luomo and delay are one. as i tried that luomo album vocalcity a couple of days ago and it didn't do anything for me. it was the usual annoying, repetitive electronic beat music of the zero years. but on anima there is a lot happening. it has got that cosmic feel. and it neither sounds like cold laptop music.

how dare you

yeah, c'mon. vocalcity is obv repetitive music. so is anima for that matter. but they both reward close listening for largely the same reason - what may seem static at first reveals itself as something slowly mutating instead. they're both v. dense, detailed albums.

yes, i have to dig deeper, only a cursory listen. more like a first impression.

love this dude

it's not a tummaa

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lol

hahahaha

what may seem static at first reveals itself as something slowly mutating instead. they're both v. dense, detailed albums.

OTM... The slowly mutating character is a hallmark of his production, as is that damp, murky, incredibly detailed vibe. I want to use the dreaded "organic" here, but in a literal sense; his tracks sound like they're teeming with life. Alex, keep it up with Vocalcity; as the nuances reveal themselves (and this album rewards very LOUD listening, seriously) you'll start to see it as just the other side of the coin from Anima. There's such a clear sensibility and palette linking the two, the immediately recognizable strong voice of a true great.

> It's so loose and free feeling that it's hard to believe that it's programming...

Not much programming there. I visited his studio when he was recording it. He played most of it live using MIDI drum pads.

it was the usual annoying, repetitive electronic beat music of the zero years. ... sounds like cold laptop music.

ROLLING MY DAMN EYES

Not much programming there. I visited his studio when he was recording it. He played most of it live using MIDI drum pads.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense...

> It's so loose and free feeling that it's hard to believe that it's programming...

Not much programming there. I visited his studio when he was recording it. He played most of it live using MIDI drum pads.

― kokokeho, Monday, 5 September 2011 13:38 (5 hours ago)

oooh do u have any other sasu ripatti anecodotes

Yes, I would but I keep them to myself. I just wanted to correct that one speculation about his production methods.

that's pretty impressive, so he just played the pads, no programming involved, eh?! lol

things i can't find on the internet no.25054539589038453

performance of the four quarters (i think) live at the tate, or somewhere else in the UK

ok lol that was easy

http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/39331620001/26057436001

obv quality is shit but i used to play this to fall asleep to and was pretty let down when i heard the actual records

He's trained drummer? I assumed it was largely live instrumentation. Listening to Amina is like immersing yourself in someone else's dream, or something. The crash and then emotional vocal sample at the end is like being dramatically pulled out of this state. Does anyone know where the sample comes from?

That said I probably listening to Naima more often.

Lol, yeah. It's pretty clear VD is tongue in cheek here, but I certainly could see "Rakka II" being a more, dare I say it, "tender" record than its predecessor.

There was some discussion about "aggressive/abbrasive ambient" on some other thread. I can see 'Rakka' qualifies, but I do not experience the record (my aoty of 2020) as aggressive full stop. It's sonic purification for me, a ritualistic cleansing* of the heart and mind where every time I give myself over to it, I come out feeling tranquil, like rarely any record has ever done for me.

* ok this might veer into Midsommar terrain ;)

I saw Rakka as a live show first, which definitely colored my experience

sounds like my kind of romantic summer vision tbh

I like Rakka II better than the OG. This is great stuff.

I am curious for people’s thoughts on Anima. I found a used CD copy for $3 recently and thought I’d try it out. I’m.. not sure how to interpret it! I like it, but it’s not exactly easy listening.

I think it *makes sense* though? Like it touches some sort of emotion or feeling that I can’t describe. It definitely makes me want to listen to his other stuff tho that’s for sure

it’s super architectural, it makes me think of a constantly changing 3D rendering of a skyscraper or something.. like the best of ripatti’s stuff it has that feel of gods playing dice games/Jenga with large astronomical objects

I have found most of his stuff really hard to listen to since…. Four Quarters? So much clanging and stuff lol

nothing this guy has ever done under any name has ever really spoken to me *except* his rhythm & sound remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwUzOWLXXUk

surprisingly (to me anyway) a lot of vladislav delay : rhythm & sound fans don’t seem to like that track!

The Rhythm and Sound remix rules. It's one of the better remixes on that album.

Anima is one of my favorite VD releases. The sample from Eyes Wide Shut sent me into bliss on my first listen. I love the wandering shapelessness. Several summers ago, after working on music in the studio until 4am, my phone happened to play the title track on random as my friend and I shared a joint in the car. He had never heard it, and we sat and listened to the entire piece. It's always nice when your musical passenger says, "no, don't change it."

it’s super architectural, it makes me think of a constantly changing 3D rendering of a skyscraper or something.. like the best of ripatti’s stuff it has that feel of gods playing dice games/Jenga with large astronomical objects

i love this description of it, totally nails it