Meritie
Islaja
| Available Formats | No. of Tracks | Price | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Download Album (mp3) | 13 tracks | £5.99 | ||
| Download Album (flac) | 13 tracks | £6.99 | ||
| Download Album (wav) | 13 tracks | £6.99 | ||
| Download individual tracks | N/A | from £0.75 |
Islaja - Meritie
The amazing first Islaja's album
Reviews
The Wire Magazine
Meritie is the debut album from Islaja, a Finnish singer-songwriter who specialises in beautifully phased acid-folk. Her guitar technique draws heavily from the Syd Barrett-Jandek axis, with erratic single note bass patterns pulsing like blood throughout her furthest navigations while the rest of her fingers knit meandering tonal rags. Double tracked vocals add to the air of total dislocation, helping to make her sometimes Bjork-like vocal sound a bit less cute. At points both vocals intersect to powerful effect, an invigorating verbal anarchy that makes for some delicious smears of pure sound, while the muzzy use of harpsichord, accordion, organ and harmonica works to encase the later tracks in a coat of warm, damp moss.
David Keenan
Dusted Magazine
Isjala's Meritie, her debut on Fonal Records, is just part of the explosion of grass roots music in Finland the last few years. Isjala wrote, played and recorded most Meritie’s 13 songs by herself.
Isjala combines gestures from various genres, but in an off-hand, almost careless way, like a roughshod Joni Mitchell. Isjala twists, bends and often breaks her forms, struggling to lace the psychedelic folk and the avant garde of the present with the remnants of childhood piano lessons. “Kukkia” begins with jaunty, if somewhat skewed, finger-picking and an aching falsetto harmony, eerily evoking Simon & Garfunkel’s pseudo-psychedelic Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme.
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“Vimeisellä rannalla”, the album’s most stunning piece, showcases all of Isjala’s strengths. A stark poem bobs above drifting harmonica, accordion, organ and singing whales. Spoken more than sung, the backdrop a fractured kaleidiscope of instrumental colors.
Matthew Wuethrich
Tracklisting
Download Album (FR-32)
- Islaja - Kristallipallosilmät
- Islaja - Kenen maa
- Islaja - Emoa ikävä
- Islaja - Kämmen, kynsi, kieli
- Islaja - Kukkia
- Islaja - Haikea, kirkas
- Islaja - Sata naakkaa sitten
- Islaja - Majassani nukut, kataja
- Islaja - Valo vedestä
- Islaja - Viimeisellä rannalla
- Islaja - Harhojen perhe
- Islaja - Halpaa kultaa
- Islaja - Aallot ja äänet
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