History Virta

1) Virta is the channel of the musical ambitions of Santtu Forsström hailing from Kristiinankaupunki - alluring small town located at the beautiful West Coast of Finland. This nature-praising and original music draws its influences from folk and progressive folk-rock, and the music of five tracks of this fourty-minute album is woven together with drums, percussions, lively bass, acoustic guitars and woodwind instruments.

Skillful instrumentation and the progressive elements and song structures create an atmosphere that is at the same time sophisticated and primitively vigorous. "Elon syvä lempi" is rich in nuances, and full of feeling of longing and ethereal calmness. Combined with the ever-present feeling of the element of unpredictability the album truly bears resemblances to the streams and rivers of the North. The calm waters under thin ice can suddenly form a stream and powerful river might abruptly give away it's power, and rest for a while in a form of pond smooth as glass and evaporate slowly just to reincarnate in a from of a strom cloud to the horizon. "Elon syvä lempi" was released 12.12. (1st press 400 pc.) and contains artwork of Samuli Kontio and Eva-Maria Aitsam.

2) Virta:

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"I am holding a power cable in my wet hands. Not like I'm intended to do so, but something has stopped me. A certain flow in the air. It takes a moment to analyze it, but definitely in a good way - just like everything which isn't predigested. And why am I trembling? I know it's not electricity, because I had placed the cable to the plug two songs ago, unnoticed. It's the music of Virta which has taken me somewhere else. Not a traditional electric shock, that's for sure.

Virta is a Finnish instrumental trio which combines textures of Scandinavian jazz and post-rock with avant-garde sensibilities. These barely 20-year-olds are crashing the barriers and blending the opposites with such a fearless and adventurous vision, that comparisons to the names like Jaga Jazzist, Supersilent and Nils Petter Molvaer have to be made. Started in Spring 2011 and only a handful of fierce shows in their pocket, this exceptionally versatile group marches it's own unconventional way of expression."

-Per Svanburg / New Music Community

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