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OJERUM (øJERUM) - Langt Fra Jorden

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: IIKKI - 026 Release Year: 2024 Note: stand alone vinyl version of the book+sound project with IRENE ZOTTOLA, lim. gold vinyl, hand-numbered 250 copies! - six pieces of impressionistic zither-sounds and sublime, sensitive wave-drones... - "Slow, majestic drift of sounds, like the tides, with piano note, some rumbling there, a loop of a mouth organ and the slow tinkling of guitar chords..* [Vital Weekly] Price (incl. 19% VAT): €24.50 More Info • Cutting lacquer • 12’’ Gold LP • Gold pantone (front + back) • Matt laminated outer sleeve on 300 gm paper, black inner with empty hole • Hand numbered / Limited edition to 250 copies "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. 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 "This is the 26th book and CD/vinyl production by the French Iikki book house (related to Laaps; see elsewhere). Each publication is a dialogue between a visual artist, usually a photographer, and a musician. The visual artist this time is Irene Zottola, from Spain, who uses analogue photography and uses to “generate a world of dreamlike and poetic character, often accompanying her images with text.” She exhibited her work in various countries, and this new book, called ‘Lejos De La Tierra ‘, is her second book. This makes her book far from a traditional photobook and more like a book of collages. Poetic collages with photos, paint, pencil, and handwritten text look great. For each track by øjeRum, she has a few pages. There are six tracks in total, and the hardcover book (“logo, slot and circle embossed on covers, gold hot stamping on front and back cover, visible seam”) has 80 pages, so figure that out. øjeRum is a Danish composer, Paw Grabowski and no stranger to these pages, but his catalogue is much bigger, with releases on Room40, Line, Opal Tapes and Sound In Silence, besides many more. Laaps says, “he plucks and strums his treated acoustic instruments”, which is interesting because that’s not my first association with his music. Sure, guitars are used, but I would also think a fair amount of electronics, entirely playing on lengthy sustaining sounds, maybe some processed voices thrown in there too, for instance in ‘Poppeltræet Med Syv Grene’. Like many other releases on Iikki books (and the sister label Laaps), the music is atmospheric and fits the visual side very well. There is a shared interest in the grainy and obscured poetry of images and sounds. Slow, majestic drift of sounds, like the tides, with piano note, some rumbling there, a loop of a mouth organ and the slow tinkling of guitar chords; all of which are helped by firm dashes of reverb, maybe at times a bit too much. But such is the nature of this kind of music, and reverb helps to set the scene. All in all a wonderfully great collaboration." [FdW / Vital Weekly]