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he's self-released it on ripatti, yeah, but where all the records on that label have thus far been very much indebted to footwork etc., this is being marketed as his first ambient album in a decade by way of its eschewing discernible rhythms. and while on the surface level it does draw direct to my favourite record under the delay moniker, entain, in using dubbed-out soundscapes and generally extended pieces which aren't encumbered by structure, it's definitely a different beast entirely. where his earlier ambient records featured songs which anchored themselves on a motif and ran with it over a set period of time, an approach which christian fennesz adopted for his poppier records, this seems almost indebted to acousmatic music. there are points in the tracks where they have shifts which recall schaeffer or rather concrète in general, where they're running along these chord progressions or melodic tangents and they'll be swarmed by this wholly other set of sounds, and given that it was apparently made in two weeks I'd presume that it almost has to be a result of generative techniques. so in terms of its composition it's pretty radically different, at least from his earlier ambient material, and is informed by the level of complexity he's been employing in his other material of late, but in terms of its overall sound and aesthetic it's very identifiably a vladislav delay project, and isn't one that treads water a bit like vantaa did.
yeah I think that's the thing, being all the way out in aus there isn't much in the way of infrastructure to uphold the release of imported records. they sort of just trickle in over time, and getting a record you're looking for is as much a matter of luck as it is anything else. and the absurd shipping costs serve to price everyone out (ie to get a record from the US in particular costs less than it does to actually have it delivered to you) and make pre-ordering a record totally unfeasible.
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