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Limited Edition Compact Disc
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Two tone / 4 panel hand made letter-pressed Somerset cotton covers, glass mastered CD, set of twenty three A6 collage prints by øjeRum pressed on luxury 250g gesso card, vintage hand numbered (1920 - 1955) Kodachrome photographic slides, Vintage (1923) 9.5mm Pathescope film reel. All of the above rests inside stitched / sealed glassine bags with scent. As always with each Fluid Audio release, they are completely unique... each one a beautiful 'one off limited edition'.
Includes unlimited streaming of Needleshaped Silence
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Needleshaped Silence has been lying dormant for more than a decade, while mercilessly mauled by passing years and older technology, it is still a dearly beloved sound, and one that’s still sought after. Digital, pristine mp3’s aren’t always desirous or heaven-sent. Their dazzling, polished notes can appear to be a little too clean, its bright make-up masking a nude authenticity, bringing a plasticity and an artificiality to something natural, something the music was born with.
Mistakes are quickly erased in a world that wishes to erase flaws, but imperfections can be perfect things, too, and that’s true of Needleshaped Silence, a collection of muted tracks from øjeRum wherein the past reassembles itself to permeate the present. Accidental sounds become firm roots that can’t be displaced, and its solid foundations become defined things which, thanks to the slightly worn, decade-dulled layers around them, don’t sound like accidents at all. It isn’t always quiet in a dynamic sense: quiet music can be quietly-toned and not necessarily quiet in its overall volume, and it also dismisses the stale, carbon-copy approach of the recording process.
Like a collage, single tracks were taken and moulded anew using the same old software as before. Introverted sounds that were once buried under the woollen clothing of outer layers are now reluctantly exposed, arriving at the forefront of the music. øjeRum added that he ‘…preferred the seemingly random, anonymous, silent and unpretentious sounds, recorded as mere backdrops and never intended to come to the fore’. Chance encounters are essential ingredients in the magic spell, but the transitions are so subtle as to seem invisible. A new sound slips easily into the old, and Aaron Martin’s additional strings help in fleshing the tones out, supporting them in their first steps and hovering around the quivering vibrations, the subdued frequencies. Deeper and deeper the record descends, until the atmosphere sails through a pair of gates and into the inner reaches of the mind, its own kind of deeper-toned ambient seeming to be a perfect fit for the inner cosmos, coming across at times as a sister of space-ambient. A parallel exists between the music’s distant decade and the delayed arrival of the music’s pale light, which filters into the present, feeling more like an exceptionally relevant record and less like something horribly outdated. Black sunshine fills the world of Needleshaped Silence, its sobering strings levitating in and around the quavering, flexible tones, its near-silent music lit by the past’s dull solar flares.
supported by 20 fans who also own “Needleshaped Silence”
Every track is as beautiful and haunting as implied by the title of the album.
This works as well for a romance as it does for a kind of ghost story.
Resonant and rich. Impolight
supported by 18 fans who also own “Needleshaped Silence”
I love this series because it is so interesting and the first 3 stages are nice to listen to for studying. The music is sad and happy, distorted in parts but real throughout. keenan_bruce
Disarmingly beautiful, atmospheric works with stunning, slow-moving melodies that feel like light breaking through storm clouds. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 21, 2023
In an homage to early clicks 'n' cuts, Harz employs the art of microsampling to create these nine hypnotic numbers. Bandcamp New & Notable May 15, 2022
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Brings back a lot of personal track writing memories, does track one. Amazing music by ojerum. "Don't Worry Mother" is dark without even trying to be, the best kind of writer catharsis for an artist like ojerum. Mick Buckingham (Muttley SV)