Muutos: Short Letters to Unknown Recipients

by Torbjörn Ömalm

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1.	Hauta 05:31	buy track
2.	Ruija 02:43	buy track
3.	Jierma 02:55	buy track
4.	Pahakorva 03:31	buy track
5.	Huhta 04:33	buy track
6.	Interlude: Nuorta 01:28	buy track
7.	Nili 01:53	buy track
8.	Länsi 02:28	buy track
9.	Keituri 02:42	buy track

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Dark, mysterious, a pinch of bad vibes in a world of beauty, slightly ungraspable and unpleasant but yet a nice evoking feeling. Dreams of wood… a musk, disparate scents of late autumn. Putrefaction, rotting. A world of absolute contrast. A lot of inverted frustrated emotions. A light blackness but not totally without hope.

"Muutos: short letters to unknown recipients" is a 9 track concept album consisting songs that are created through a metamorphic writing process with the sound and phrasing of a language, meänkieli to be precise, as a starting point. The music is largely improvised and performed through guitars (and loop pedal) with a little coloring from everyday objects as percussion and voices/whistling. An “iced” interlude in the middle of the album works as a sluice between two harmonic spheres.

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released February 24, 2017

All songs on Muutos… are composed, arranged and improvised by Torbjörn Ömalm
All instruments (and voices) played by Torbjörn Ömalm
Additional handclaps by Johan Karlsson
Additional ice throwing by Nikolai Äystö Lindholm and Sandra Josefsson at Nuortajärvi in October 2016.
Engineered, recorded and mixed by Johan Karlsson at Arctic Mire Studios in a snowy Riitajänkkä January 2017.
Mastered by Ronald Vikström.
Drawing by Torbjörn Ömalm.
Artwork design by Miriam Vikman.
"Muutos: short letters to unknown recipients" is also a part of an artistic research project.

This album is dedicated to my beloved brother Mats (1977-2015).

Limited cassettes (21 copies with green shells) sold out.

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Torbjörn Ömalm Jukkasjärvi, Sweden

Sámi/Lantalainen guitarist Ömalm creates music that is situated in and inspired by his native Arctic cultural environment.

Ömalm is currently active in/with Ruohtta, Djuasa, :heiva:, Rävelden and MRK. Most T. Ömalm releases are available for streaming at Tidal, Spotify etc.

For Ruohtta-related music, see:
ruohtta.bandcamp.com

New projects coming up 2024-25:
Vidrig, Profan Musik ... more

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