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VAR 001LP
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$50.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 5/8/2026
øjeRum is the moniker of Danish artist Paw Grabowski. Since 2007, his mostly tape-based works have unfolded like private diaries -- intimate, textural, often centered around a vintage pump organ Paw found left abandoned in a dilapidated Danish home, and to which he would return, sometimes in the dead of winter, to play and record on. The works featured on this release are centered around this pivotal engagement and collect some of his earliest releases from around 2014 to 2017. These were then carefully selected and released via Vaagner's sister label in 2018 via a double cassette release, which has since become a coveted collectors' item. Throughout the album, the organ breathes, sighs -- the moments of brief silence that follow are almost palpable, then like a sonorous echo, the sound rushes back into the foreground with gentle restraint, submerging the listener into an undulating current of emotional upheaval. In this ebb and flow, øjeRum shapes a space where memory seems to waver and dissolve, and where a fragile, lingering melancholy unfolds with a kind of hushed inevitability. With the newly minted Vaagner.Archive, this album is now reissued on vinyl for the first time -- carefully remastered and housed in a 2LP gatefold sleeve printed on special cardboard, its tactile presence echoing the material sensitivity that has always defined Paw Grabowski's practice. A love letter to repetition and restraint.
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A note from øjeRum : "Your Soft Absence is a suite of processed sine waves and sampled wind instruments. It's a narrative of a particular feeling of absence that's haunting me; perhaps best described as the longing for a childhood emotion, a feeling of unconscious wonder, a state of simply being without an essence or perhaps like a memory continuously receding whenever I try recalling it, seemingly closest and most present at a certain distance, with a certain absence."
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135THCYCLE
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"Surreal, mysterious and poetic is how one could define the work of Danish musician and collage artist Paw Grabowski. His latest album Without Blood The Sun Darkens exudes feelings of the simplicity of being present, in the absence of absolute existence, pervaded by memories, moods and emotions, neither sad nor happy, fulfilled. It is about watching time, from faded memories of one's childhood to that feeling just before laying down between wanderings and stillness, looking at the darkening room just before you disperse and disappear completely into nothingness. Soothing and engulfing melodies that seems to repeat yet always evolving, a profound venture through melancholy. Edition of 500 copies in 4 panel Digipak."
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ABX 065LP
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As fans since 2014, Aurora Borealis release the debut vinyl from Danish multi-disciplinary artist øjeRum. Titled When Birds Fly, The Eyes Of Heaven Can Rest, the LP features two extended tracks of ethereal, haunting, and otherworldly beauty. The cover art is a hand-cut collage, part of an ever growing body of incredible work from this talented Dane. The artwork expresses the audio perfectly - a floating, drifting haze of light, subtly shifting, organic. This is a world to lose yourself in. LP is housed in a reverse board sleeve; Pressed on clear vinyl, cut at The Carvery; Edition of 300.
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