Danish collage artist & musician Paw Grabowski aka øjeRum made his first appearance on KrysaliSound with one of the standout EPs of last year, a reissue of his alternate soundtrack to Chris Marker’s 1962 time travel film La Jetée entitled He remembers there were gardens. He returns with an encore reissue of another øjeRum long form piece,…
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Sound Impression: Sacred Groves by Rime Trails [Shimmering Moods]
Some artists prefer to work under a cloak of anonymity and let their music forge its own identity, and so it is with Rime Trails, an ambient music project based in Denmark. Over the past few years that identity has emerged as one associated with contemplative soundscapes rich in textural elements and reflective of natural…
Read MoreTravelogue 2016.04.21: Spotlight on Shimmering Moods Records
Shimmering Moods is a label based in Amsterdam that has already had a fruitful 2017 with a number of excellent limited edition CD releases and quite an international roster of artists. Featured here are recent works by Andrew Tasselmyer (USA), Snufmumriko (Sweden) , Rime Trails (Denmark), and Gallery Six (Japan). Also highly recommended are two albums featured…
Read MoreThrough a musical lens: øjeRum – He remembers there were gardens [KrysaliSound]
Originally released on cassette in 2013, Italian label KrysaliSound has remastered and reissued a mesmerizing long form composition by Danish collage artist & musician Paw Grabowski under his artistic pseudonym of øjeRum. An undulating, hypnagogic organ-based drone, He remembers there were gardens was conceived as an alternate soundtrack to the 1962 “photo-roman” (photo-novel) La Jetée by Chris Marker which is still recognized as…
Read MoreEd Carlsen – The Journey Tapes [Moderna Records]
After nearly 20 years of playing guitar and covering other people’s music, Ed Carlsen recently started down a new path of pursuing his own compositions while teaching himself the piano as well as exploring the world of sound design. These new directions combined with the inspiration of the nearby landscape of Denmark’s Ravnholm Forest have culminated in…
Read MoreSound Impression: øjeRum – Væv [Eilean Rec.]
A glistening gossamer web spun from reminiscence and longing. The warp and weft of memory woven into a translucent sonic tapestry. A collage of frozen time and faded beauty. All of these are suggested by both the title and music of Væv, the latest work of Copenhagen-based musician and collage artist Paw Grabowski under the moniker of øjeRum (the word væv, rooted in Old…
Read MoreVideo Premiere: “Ghost Town” from ‘Dust Bowl’ by Rodeo
When I was very young and at the mercy of my parent’s taste in movies & music, I recall one of the first records I ever heard that lit me up and made me want to listen over & over was Enrico Morricone’s soundtrack to ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ‘ (and, yes, I…
Read MorePREMIERE: “Falling Leaves” by Western Skies Motel
Last year the music of Western Skies Motel found its way from Denmark to all corners of the globe. The artist saw his music released on labels based in Poland (Prism, on Preserved Sound) and Australia (Buried and Resurfaced, on Twice Removed) while the raw material of a third album called Settlers made its way to American Southwest leading…
Read MoreWestern Skies Motel – Buried and Resurfaced [Twice Removed]
Invoking the breathtaking and mysterious expanse of western skies in name is easy enough to do. Creating music diverse and powerful enough to live up to it is another thing entirely, but with the two full length Western Skies Motel records he has delivered this year, Danish musician René Gonzalez Schelbeck has shown he is up to…
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