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  • Summary: The latest release for the Finnish electronic artist Sasu Ripatti as Vladislav Delay was inspired after his visa to enter the US was denied and he had to cancel his tour.
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  1. Dec 15, 2014
    80
    Ambient music since its inception was about overlapping voices and how it effects perception: two, three voices are one sustained tone across and infinite period of time, where interactions intersect and combust. Visa exploits this to brilliant ends.
  2. Dec 15, 2014
    80
    Visa finds Ripatti attuned to a very specific, focused energy, and the result is some of his best work.
  3. Dec 15, 2014
    80
    In Visa, Ripatti has constructed an album evocative of one extremely specific place--and it’s a place which couldn’t have been accessed by anybody but him.
  4. Mojo
    Feb 2, 2015
    80
    An eerily rootless modern drift through the electronic depths of Tarkovsky's Zone. [Feb 2015, p.96]
  5. The Wire
    Dec 15, 2014
    80
    It's the most vibrant and vital he's sounded in a long while. [Nov 2014, p.64]
  6. Uncut
    Jan 7, 2015
    70
    This lush hybrid of electronica, jazz and modern classical forms is one of the most beautiful accidents in Ripatti's long and prolific career. [Feb 2015, p.84]