Whalewiper | XAMBUCA

As a collaborative effort between WHALEWIPER (Petri Viitala) and XAMBUCA (Chandra Shukla), both agreed to do a tribute record back in April of 2017 when mutual friend and mentor Mika Vainio tragically passed away in Trouville-sur-Mer, France. The title Sisiliskopäiväkirjat translated into English from Finnish reads as 'Lizard Diaries', and is a direct reference to Mika having had a lizard tattoo on his left arm and coincidentally being visited by lizards a day after his death. Both were unlikely candidates to ever meet in real life but the death of Mika Vainio brought them together in dialogue, resulting in the agreement for the two to make sounds together in his honor. Shukla and Viitala quickly utilized the efficiency of the internet and agreed to work overseas to complete a mutual effort. As a joint collaboration in the spirit of experimentation while improving on the usage of sounds and their textures, but also the 'rejection' involved of eliminating parts that didn't work. The intent is to continue this collaboration with different ideas, instrumentation and themes. From Turku to Asheville and back again.