Format Details:
Release Date: 17 July 2015
Label: Black Hole Recordings
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8715197011921
Genres: Electronic
Description
'Myrki Heima' by Oliver Englafjord is an album like no other. It's metamorphosed from late-night sonicsketching, 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.
A citizen of an unidentified Nordic city, Oliver's life musings visually push through the fourth wall of 'Myrki Heima's music. Across a series of 5-minute accompanying film shorts, sound-tracked by the album's audio, Englafjord half-ponders/half-narrates his life, the universe & everything.
The meanings of Oliver words are initially cryptic. Only through the 4 video chapters, framed against the urban, metropolitan and bucolic Nordic locales that accompany 'Myrki's release, does his story become clear.
Tracklisting
Ed Lynam
Emma Hewitt
Somna
RAM
Fonzerelli
Alex Di Stefano, Zach Zlov and EverLight
Various
BT
Montjuic
Ladytron
Tangerine Dream
Alison Goldfrapp
Harald Grosskopf & Uemit Han
Souleance
Poly Styrene
Paul Hardcastle
