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Ruoho Ruotsi presents his fifth 12" with a four-tracker entitled Afternoon Delighting. Drawing conceptual and lyrical inspiration from the “Chanson d'Après-midi” by Charles Baudelaire (and others from the collection Les Fleurs du Mal), each piece ruminates on the myriad shades of grey between the poles of bitter & sweet, friendship & enmity, sacred & profane love.

Showcasing his affection for dub-influenced production and inter-wreathed textural deployments, Ruoho Ruotsi uses these elements as a compositonal base upon he builds and intertwines an assortment of sonic leitmotifs, invoking on one hand the imagery of wistfulness and bygone intimacy and on the other a capricious and whimsical pneuma.

Thanks to Ron for the visual inspiration for the artwork and to Man Pikin for the mad photoshop skills. The high-rez label & jacket artwork is on our flickr page.

Below we've embedded a time-lapse music video that looks at creative process that went into the artwork for this release. It is also linked up our videos page. Enjoy!

The Making of Artwork for "Afternoon Delighting"