Copenhagen-based Ambient factory øjeRum is used to working inter-disciplinarily – with enviable discipline. On Instagram, the solo-artist has earned himself a social following other experimental musicians can only dream of by posting melancholy collages. They are evocative artworks that tend to follow the same principle. øjeRum takes an image of a young, white woman from the Fin de Siècle. He then cuts out parts of her body and replaces it with a scene traditionally connected to the sublime: mountains, a stormy sea, outer space, etc. Musically, this production style has an equivalent in an unbelievable number of somewhat similar LPs.
On Bandcamp, øjeRum has published a whooping 73 solo-releases in the last 10 years. But if you’re now assuming such quantity must result in a lack of quality, you might want to take a closer look at »Langt for Jorden«. First, the LP is not intended to be listened to alone. It’s part of a collaboration with Spanish photo artist Irene Zottola. In the accompanying book, she adds minimal images and, this, gives the album a more modernist spin. Admittedly, »Langt for Jorden« is still business as usual for øjeRum: Ambient made of soft drones, tender acoustics and nostalgic background noises. But why fix what isn’t broken? »Langt for Jorden« is a rewarding soundtrack for quiet hours.
