Islaja presents her new album "Angel Tape", her debut release onthe new Helsinki-based label Other Power. Drawing inspirationfrom childhood epiphanies while listening to an alleged recording ofangels singing, Islaja has crafted an album that stands out as amajor work in her expansive and celebrated catalogue, whichincludes previous releases on labels such as Ecstatic Peace!,Fonal and Svart. Islaja, aka Finnish artist Merja Kokkonen, describes her new albumas a "counterwork" to her most recent albums, where the mode ofcomposing was more song-based. This time around, she goesmore in the direction of vast fields of sound where the human voiceis a key ingredient of music that breaks free of strict stylisticguidelines and traditional song forms. Rough around the edges,atonal and otherworldly, "Angel Tape" is the result of a lifetime ofinspiration from something beyond the immediate realm of ourexperience, an attempt to catch the elusive essence of musicalotherness.