VIRTA set release date for new Svart Records album, reveal first track

Helsinki post-jazz group VIRTA will release their second album on December 2nd on Svart Records. The instrumental trio, known especially for their fiery live performances, have prepared their new opus meticulously until it has been deemed ready to be unleashed. Titled HURMOS, the 50-minute work consists of seven electro-acoustic pieces.

“We’ve been working on HURMOS for over three years now, and finally, we feel we’re ready to share it with other people,” says the band. “During the process of making the album, we gravitated more and more towards electronic sounds, so HURMOS ended up being a synthesis of these quite old compositions and modern sound production. For us, the years the process took felt almost like a test to see if the music we made could tolerate the erosion of time.”

VIRTA’s brand of art combines textures of Nordic jazz, electronica, and post-rock with avant-garde sensibilities. The band’s roots stretch back to 2011, and their debut album Tales From The Deep Waters (Tourist Information, 2012) sold out quickly and garnered a considerable amount of praise while at it. The trio and their quirky instrumentation have already raised international interest and have performed on, to mention a few, the 12-Points festival in Dublin, Match & Fuse Festival in Oslo, and Pori Jazz in Finland.

Svart Records will release HURMOS on CD, LP, and digital formats on December 2nd. The first digital single off the album is titled “Time Travel,” and it is available for streaming at Svart’s Soundcloud.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for VIRTA’s HURMOS
1. Aallot
2. About To Fly
3. Time Travel
4. Härmä
5. The Landing
6. Uni
7. On the Run

VIRTA are:
Antti Hevosmaa: trumpet, vocals, electronics
Heikki Selamo: guitar, vocals, electronics
Erik Fräki: drums, percussion, electronics

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