Marcus Schössow Releases Full Oliver Englafjord ‘Myrki Heima' Album‘Myrki Heima’ by Oliver Englafjord is an album like no other. Its metamorphosed from late-night sonic-sketching, through YouTube beta testing on to an alias-donned/fully-fleshed 13-track body of work… 3 years in process, ‘Myrki Heima’s epic passage to album-hood culminates this July. The by-chance brainchild of Sweden’s Marcus Schössow, ‘Myrki’s embryonic moment occurred in Iceland, a half decade ago. Blinking ‘Oliver Englafjord’ into existence, it was a trip for Schössow that went far beyond the bounds of the merely inspirational. iTunes pre-order here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/myrki-heima/id1002110329 Explaining the genesis of Oliver Englafjord, Marcus says: “I started this project to basically learn about new hardware I had, and to explore what happens if I used it to make music that had no rules. At the time I’d been travelling around Iceland and was inspired by its nature and peacefulness. I started to play this material to a friend of mine and he suggested that I should develop it into a full album. I wasn’t so sure, but I uploaded some masked demos to YouTube, for fun and to see what people – not knowing it was I - would say. Heads-up: attempt to categorize ‘Myrki Heima’s elecsonics at your peril. No genre slot-ins available; no recognised electronic music categories to ease into. The moment you think you’ve put a pin in ‘Myrki’, it’s gonna pop it right back out at you. “After many years of producing and DJing the music I produce and DJ, it was an amazing freedom and liberation to do this - a sabbatical of a kind”, continues Schössow “Deep inside of me, I’ve always been a melodic techno guy, but I’ve always felt that I’d like to go down this path sooner or later. I never expected that instead of finding the path, that path would find me. This alias is all about freehand music with no compromise and I’m beyond excited to embark on this journey with Oliver and see where it takes us all.” The album is in essence ‘Schössow: unbound’, a transcendental, near out-of-body producer experience, which entwines Marcus & ‘Oliver’s minds. It’s long-player that has zero to do with classification and everything to do with feel and atmosphere and ether. Downtempo, mid and up, it supplies theatre for the ear and eye, with start-to-finish cinematics and quantum drama, both mellow & melo. Oliver Englafjord - Myrki Heima Tracklist Would you like to know more? www.blackholerecordings.com
July 9, 2015 8:35am ET by Stark Profiles PR
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