Vilja Rough Luksus

Bio:

"I only know to sing 5 notes. But they work." An early statement from a critical dudette...Some years later with a palmful of new tones and tunes Vilja is a singer-composer-producer from Helsinki, Finland. Since 2002 her main project is ECHOSYSTEM, a 7 member orchestra with a unique sound merging brazilian rhythms, funk, jazz and breakbeat. Vilja loves to call it fusion although the word causes confusion among music lovers...But cmon, what do you call influences like Kitty Winter Gipsynova and Azymuth?! Echosystem's debut album Madaga was released in January 2007 (Presence Records). Recently it was also released in Japan. --------- ROUGH LUKSUS is Vilja's every-other-day-side or quintal as producer. She works on experimental lofi beats, vocals and sophisticated electronica. There's more music to come, but she's temporarily been without proper un-pro home studio gear since returning from Brazil---------- In July 2006 Lusine (Jeff McIlwain) released Weaver, with Vilja's vocals all tweaked, on Emerald EP (Ghostly). (The Weaver in this myspace player is her original Rough Luksus version.) That was a start of a collaboration that has been going on on Lusine's new album A Certain Distance (Ghostly 2009). Later on she's been working in Austria with CERTAIN SUBJECTS guys. That's icy cosmic house and future soul sung in Portuguese and English.---------- During 2006 Vilja lived 9 months in Salvador, Brazil. She started a vocal-percussion group with CARLOS MOSCA improvising, unifying afro-bahian grooves and traditional styles with soul and attitude.---------- Back to Helsinki, it's landscape architecture now...But during the summer 2009 Vilja had time to get together with TURBO REXXXA from Jesse. They made some awesome crossover techno songs & played in Helsinki and Latvia. That's the next story to be recorded, when Vilja gets her ass out of the office...

Member Since:

July 26, 2006

Members:

Vilja Larjosto goes solo on Rough Luksus -- and is member of Echosystem, TurboSata, Certain Subjects -- and sings for/with Lusine and Antti Szurawitzki

Influences:

like..Tuulanauhat artists, warp artists, words, hip scandinavian scenarios, hairdos, Dani Siciliano, Georgia Anne Muldrow, afro-brazilian stuff, my brother

Sounds Like:

aestethic rough electronica nordic art hop speed-boardsofcanada tough kitsch

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