Fonal Rec.
Islaja : Palaa Aurinkoon (FIN,2005)***°
Islaja creates with her music a kind of minimal and colourful shadowpuppet land of theatre, which builds up like a book with collage and images. There are true, somewhat improvised songs hidden inside this world. They build up with a very minimal world of accompaniments, like spherical explorations, loose and textured, finding their own structures. This collage of sounds comes to life into recognisable shapes, finds rhythms inside them, like with harmonium, piano and handclaps. They come to life and creation as if lighting up from dusty corners, finding minimal melodies, being lesser melodic than birds, then flying up like paper planes, creating then a few droning dreams, spreading its intensions like small swimming pool bowl light for fishes, then true acoustic improvising a bit with guitar, exploring the nature of things, like in between bushes and plants, then again meditative, half singing, half spoken a kind of deeper into fairytale nature, in fact more singing to it than singing about it, as a sweet lullaby whisper on the nature of things… A great listen.
