Author Archives: John Lithium

øjeRum – Ensomheden Vi Deler (IIKKI)

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• more INFOS/PHOTOS : http://www.iikki-books.com/iikki-029
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“Ensomheden Vi Deler” (“The Loneliness We Share”) is the result of a dialogue between the collages and the music of øjeRum, initiated by IIKKI, between December 2024 and July 2025.

the complete project works in two physical imprints:
a book and a disc (vinyl/cd)
it should be experienced in different ways :
the book read alone
the disc listened to alone
the book and the disc read and listened to together.

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øjeRum is Copenhagen based musician and collage artist Paw Grabowski.

With his collages, the distinctive feature of øjeRum’s works is their ability to combine different historical and artistic periods, such as ancient sculpture, medieval frescoes, classical painting and photography, and to make them interact with one another.
øjeRum is also renowned for his work as a musician, where he stands out for his surreal, mysterious and poetic universe. His music and art are closely linked. These two sides of the artist’s work are constantly intertwined.

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.

The collage and music project “Ensomheden Vi Deler” (“The Loneliness We Share”) is an exploration of loneliness, closeness and distance. A meditation on the fragile architectures and hidden shapes of human connection.

This is his second release on IIKKI.
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for more infos + photos :
http://www.iikki-books.com/iikki-029
oejerum.bandcamp.com
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credits
released September 29, 2025

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Music & artwork by øjeRum
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Design by SprflxgrfzmTM

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℗ & © 2 0 2 5 – I I K K I – I I K K I 0 2 9

 

Of One – Textures (Cruel Nature Recordings)

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OF ONE is the latest vehicle for Dublin’s Alan O’Boyle, who has been prominent in electronic music since the ’90s with Decal, Decoy, Legion of Two (with David Lacey) and Legion Of One. His work in various guises has appeared on labels such as Planet Mu, Rotters Golf Club, D1 Recordings, Satamile, Leaf, Law & Auder and Sabrettes.

“Textures” is the fourth OF ONE album and the first for Cruel Nature Records.

Start with a static texture – a drone, some feedback, a noise loop – and then build. Sometimes the texture that seeded the composition survives the process intact and part of a bigger picture (“Please Answer. Please.”), sometimes it appears briefly as a reminder of the beginnings (“To Exceed On A Full Moon”) and sometimes it becomes the entire composition (“Into The Process”).

Written, recorded, compiled and edited by Alan O’Boyle from a week of experiments in July 2025.
Photos of Cruagh Woods, Dublin (2024) by Alan O’Boyle
Artwork by Barry Murphy.

Rapoon & Pas Musique – Knowledge Has No Enemies But The Ignorant (Zoharum)

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Label Description: “Knowledge Has No Enemies But The Ignorant” is another joint release from the British band RAPOON and the American band PAS MUSIQUE. It’s arguably their best joint effort. It features thirteen longer compositions, totaling over two hours, filled with ambient structures, a psychedelic aura, and numerous improvised fragments. It seems the two gentlemen have found a common language, one based on years of experience in experimental music and revealing their shared roots and inspirations, which can undoubtedly be found on this double-disc album.

Brooddark – Overvoltage (Cryo Chamber)

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Brooddark presents his first solo project on Cryo Chamber, a dark futuristic and industrial album

Gritty walls of sounds meets careful distorted texturing, meticulous details abound for those that listens closely to the background of ever changing soundscapes and moods. A dark and heavy album, that is equally parts hypnotizing as it is energizing

Recommended for fans of Warm Distortion, Industrial and Cyberpunk Soundscapes

Evgeny Bylina – Accidental Meetings (Florina Cassettes)

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“No knowledge of where gone from. Nor of how. Nor of whom. None of whence come to. Partly to. Nor of how. Nor of whom. None of anything. Save dimly of having come to. Partly to. With dread of being again. Partly again. Somewhere again. Somehow again. Someone again”.

From “Ceiling” (1981), by Samuel Beckett

What will you do when confronted with nothingness?
On his sophomore effort “Accidental Meetings”, Evgeny Bylina meditates on this existential question. The album was created by chance while working on another record. Drawing inspiration from the prose of Samuel Beckett, this two-track tape laments the past, echoing the sound of the dance floor with its long, carefully constructed pieces.

These ambient compositions exist only as distant memories of a joyful past. The harsh reality of the morning urges you to look into the abyss hidden in the ceiling or wall. In a way, it’s a hungover record, reflecting an emotional and physical state of decadence: blurry and tranquil, it inverts the surroundings in the liminal space for a while.
However, it’s not just a dream: the heaviness of the environment reminds us that the body is not an abstract concept, but part of the world. Is there any hope? Or are we barely supported by fleeting nostalgia? Listeners must find the answer for themselves.

Words by Artem Makarskiy

Written and produced by Evgeny Bylina
Mastered by James Edward Armstong
Photos by Pier-Luc Tremblay
Layout by Anne-Julie-Dudemaine
Original painting “Circumcision” attributed to Giorgio Vasari (Oil on wood, about mid-16th c.)
©Florina Cassettes 2025