Islaja is Merja Kokkonen, a visual artist and musician from Helsinki, Finland, now living and working in Berlin, Germany. She records her music at home using a rainbow of instruments to accompany her personal vocal delivery sang in Finnish. Islaja's debut album Meritie (2004) gained praise in international music media such as The Wire, Dusted Magazine and WFMU. The follow-up release Palaa aurinkoon (2005) caused even more excitement and created quite a stir.
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Islaja has had 13 concerts.
Islaja is most often considered to be Folk, Experimental, Psychedelic, Finnish, and Freak Folk.
The last Islaja concert was on November 08, 2018 at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. The bands that performed were: Devendra Banhart / The Breeders / Cass McCombs / Neneh Cherry / Mudhoney / Saul Williams / Rodrigo Amarante / Eleanor Friedberger / Vashti Bunyan / JPEGMAFIA / Anoushka Shankar / Colin Stetson / Georgia Anne Muldrow / Jacco Gardner / Tirzah / Psychic Ills / Hot Snakes / Kojey Radical / Yves Tumor / Kikagaku Moyo / Ryley Walker / Jessica Pratt / Seefeel / serpentwithfeet / Sons of Kemet / Lydia Lunch / Boogarins / The Comet Is Coming / King Britt / Bo Ningen / Joan of Arc / Jozef Van Wissem / Hailu Mergia / Ras G / Chihei Hatakeyama / Kelsey Lu / Art Ensemble Of Chicago / Gaika / Swamp Dogg / Manu Delago / STUFF. / Michael Rault / The Meridian Brothers / Emel Mathlouthi / Circuit Des Yeux / Roger Eno / Drinks / Valley Maker / RP Boo / Olan Mill / Oliver Coates / Ian William Craig / Madeline Kenney / Shannon Lay / Gigi Masin / Soichi Terada / Eartheater / Miho Hatori / Lucrecia Dalt / Lonnie Holley / Art Feynman / SASAMI / Jerusalem In My Heart / Virginia Wing / Hello Skinny / The Mauskovic Dance Band / Pan Daijing / Orchestra of Spheres / Black Midi / Scorpios / Yonatan Gat / Howie Lee / BCUC / Kate NV / Islaja / Crack Cloud / Ora Cogan / Katey Red / Hilary Woods / Cindy Lee / Please The Trees / Richard Fearless / Eli Keszler / Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program / ILL CONSIDERED / Midori Takada / Lice / Beverly Glenn-Copeland / Nicole Mitchell / Escape-ism / Mark Wynn / Senyawa / King Ayisoba / Alabaster dePlume / Dj Haram / Greg Fox / Vive La Void / Vera Sola / FAKA / Rizan Said / Islam Chipsy / Irreversible Entanglements / AMMAR 808 / FACS / Kelman Duran / Martin Bisi / Kadri Gopalnath / Kembra Pfahler / Paddy Steer / LYZZA / Dekmantel Soundsystem / Negro Leo / Ancient Shapes / Lucy Railton / King Champion Sounds / Urochromes / Linafornia / Jessica Sligter / Pekka Airaksinen / Joe Cardamone / Cuneyt Sepetci / The Avonden / Daniel Lentz / Kaja Draksler / Maria Chavez / Ka Baird / Maja S. K. Ratkje / Joe Coleman / Sun Foot / Nelson Patton / Eastern Medicine Singers / DNMF / Terrie Ex / Tim Koh / Cinema Perdu (NL) / DJ Noss / Sarah Hennies / Shintaro Sakamoto / Takuro Kikuchi.
