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OJERUM (øJERUM) - Langt Fra Jorden

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: IIKKI - 026 Release Year: 2024 Note: the musical part of PAW GRABOWSKIs (= OJERUM) collaboration with Spanish photographer IRENE ZOTTOLA, six pieces of impressionistic zither-sounds and sublime, sensitive wave-drones... -".. the treated sounds becoming increasingly soft-edged, allowing the organic painterly images to conjure shapes while reinforcing the quiet majesty of nature." [Electronic Music Guide] - CD version 150 copies, hand-numbered Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 More Info "Langt Fra Jorden" ("Lejos De La Tierra", in Spanish, for the book) is the result of the dialogue between the Spanish photographer and artist Irene Zottola and the Danish musician and artist øjeRum initiated by IIKKI, between June 2024 and November 2024. øjeRum is Copenhagen based musician and collage artist Paw Grabowski. In his øjeRum guise, he plucks and strums his treated acoustic instruments, sounding at times like church bells, at times like angelic harp, at time like drones, and suspends the listener in the magic of his melodies. With a deep back-catalogue of releases since 2014 - spanning labels such as eilean rec., Room40, Line, Opal Tapes and many more - he continues exploring his minimal, textural and deeply personal style of ambient music. Irene Zottola is a Spanish photographer and artist who explores the limits of analog photography to generate a world of dreamlike and poetic character, often accompanying her images with text. She has been self-taught in Madrid in the laboratory of the Slow Photo collective since 2016. In 2017 she is a finalist in the Rfotofolio Grant. Her work has been exhibited in Spain, Italy and Morocco. She has published with editorials such as La Bella Varsovia and Lumen (Spain) and magazines such as She shoots film (Australia), Fisheyemagazine (France) and Vostmagazine (Korea). In 2021 she received one of the Grants to Creation granted by VEGAP with which she began a new project in Paris and was part of the artistic residence ART(e)gileak of the BBK with a participatory photography project. She is one of the 33 authors of the Mission Region project organized by the Community of Madrid and is part of the platform of the National Image Centre in Spain. Winner in 2020 of the V Edition of the Photochannel Contest, she has published with Ediciones Anómalas her first photobook, "Icarus", which has been a finalist in PhotoEspaña and in Les Photobook Awards of Les Rencontres d'Arles 2022. "Lejos De La Tierra’’ is her second book. * glass mastered CD • 4-panel matte card package • gold pantone on covers • hand numbered limited edition to 150 copies Fine Art Book, Ltd. to 500 copies: Hardcover book printed on Munken Print Cream 115g/m2 // 80 pages, 17cm x 23cm, 42 photos // Logo and slot embossed // Hot gold stamping // Visible seam and cutting cover pages // Hand-numbered, hand-stamped. https://iikki.bandcamp.com/album/langt-fra-jorden "Capturing the quiet majesty of nature Another captivating IIKKI collaboration, this time between award winning Spanish photographer Irene Zottola and prolific Danish musician øjeRumm (aka Paw Grabowski) with Zottola's dreamlike black-and-white imagery embellishing Grabowski's sonorous and cavernous soundscapes. Langt Fra Jorden may translate as Far From Earth but we're likely off the ground rather than in outer space, as the evocative track titles suggest (e.g. "The Tree Raised Its Hands to Welcome the Silence" and "We hung our harps in the willow trees at the end of the valley"). There's a clarity to the music at first, with a gently plucked harp taking focus. But as we progress through the six phases our attention slowly shifts sideways, the treated sounds becoming increasingly soft-edged, allowing the organic painterly images to conjure shapes while reinforcing the quiet majesty of nature." [Electronic Music Guide]