Earlier this year, Norwegian folk droners Origami Arktika released their latest album, Absolut Gehör. Part of the artists’ collective Origami Republika, they recast traditional Norwegian folk songs and folklore into experimental and drone renditions, as the press release describes.
“The music on this new album is dim, dark, & melancholic. Some tracks bear witness to a sacral droning organ. The associations leap towards damp ecstasy in small chapels, deep in narrow valleys where meaningless rituals & prayers tempt weary souls with promises of a better afterlife. Folk beliefs, Pagan beliefs, Christian beliefs – the unintelligible has led a life in close proximity to the shallow waters of reason & perception permeating our times, breeding models of understanding for an unfamiliar & seemingly meaningless existence.”
Absolut Gehör is available on vinyl via Killer Records and digitally via Silber Records. To give you a taster of what they’re throwing at you, listen to the grand and hypnotic ‘Det syng for Storegut’ below.
