Flash of the Spirit

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1.	Future Days 03:22	buy track
2.	Emancipation 04:04	buy track
3.	Terra 04:24	buy track
4.	Another Channel 02:49	buy track
5.	Spirit Flash 04:25	buy track
6.	River Woman Hymn 03:54	buy track
7.	Farafina 03:45	buy track
8.	Route to the Market 03:51	buy track
9.	Dreamer 03:00	buy track
10.	Cotonou Beat 03:48	buy track
11.	Hopeful Stars 03:51	buy track
12.	Silent Water 04:20	buy track

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Flash of the Spirit is inspired by my travels and experiences in West Africa. It’s a reflection on a kind of liminal global space, imaginary and real, that exists in between and beyond cultures, nations, borders, ecosystems, beliefs, social constructs, identities and differences. This space is always in the state of becoming: changing, emerging and suggesting new possibilities.

The music blends my diverse influences of Afrobeat, Ambient, Blues, Electronic, Fourth World, Krautrock, Minimalism and West African traditional musics, and it incorporates my field recordings from those journeys into some of the pieces. It is largely an instrumental album, weaving vocals in abstracted, sliced and textural ways only; the original vocals come from artists such as Diana Bada, Gustave Dylamour, John Follass and Noel Saizonou, whom I’d met and recorded with during my residency in Villa Karo, Benin, in 2013.

The title refers to the book of the same name by Robert Farris Thompson, which I’d read during my residency in Benin. It’s also a nod to the album of the same name by Jon Hassell & Farafina. It’s also a reference to those great “flashes of the spirit” that I kept coming across on my travels.
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released October 19, 2018

All tracks written, performed, mixed and produced by Ilpo Jauhiainen

Sampled vocal on Spirit Flash and vocoder vocal on Cotonou Beat: John Follass
Additional vocal on Cotonou Beat: Gustave Dylamour
Percussions on Another Channel: Linda Förstner
Field recordings: Ilpo Jauhiainen

Mastered by Niklas Silen

Cover art and design: Ilpo Jauhiainen

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Warmth and gratitude: Wanja Kimani, Missla Libsekal, Petteri Mäkiniemi, Heta Kaisto, Josue Moreno, Diana Bada, John Follass, Gustave Dylamour, Noel Saizonou, Niklas Silen and Linda Förstner.

An extra wave of warmth to Wanja Kimani, without whom this album wouldn't exist. You became my muse. May your passion, intelligence, kindness and awesome spirit flourish in the most barrier-breaking way.

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Ilpo Paris, France

Ilpo (Ilpo Jauhiainen, b. 1977 Finland) is a composer, music producer and sound artist. He works collaboratively and globally across the arts. His musical interests revolve around the possibilities and combinations of music and sound art, new global musical styles, contemporary classical and generative music. ... more

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Interspaces

Jul 2022
Sharawadji

Jan 2022
Flux

Jun 2020
Outlands

Jul 2019

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