Devon Turnbull's Ojas label launches with Muller and Totland's Unna

An ambient, minimalist EP from members of Balmorhea and Deaf Middle.

Ojas Music, the brand new label from Devon Turnbull’s audio, hi-fi and design firm of the identical identify, has launched its first file in partnership with The Vinyl Manufacturing facility: Unna, an ambient, minimalist collaboration between Michael A. Muller & Otto A. Totland.

Muller, co-founder of minimalist instrumental duo Balmorhea, has a protracted historical past of solo recordings, and movie scoring, releasing on Deutsche Grammophon and collaborating with artists together with Hania Rani, Alva Noto, Víkingur Ólafsson, The Album Leaf, and Douglas McCombs of Tortoise.

Totland is one half of the Norwegian experimental/ambient duo Deaf Middle, whose seminal releases on Kind Data and Sonic Items helped form a technology of minimalist and ambient music. His solo piano trilogy, produced by Nils Frahm, obtained vast acclaim.

Unna (Norwegian for “away”) operates as a double entendre: gesturing each to the bodily distance between the 2 artists and to the inward pull of the artistic move state, the place time recedes and a spotlight deepens. The music pairs Totland’s close-miked, delicate piano with Muller’s contributions on double bass, glockenspiel, Mellotron, and Rhodes as a textural counterpoint.

Turnbull’s communal listening set up, HiFi Listening Room Dream No. 1, is a everlasting fixture at 180 Studios, providing an audiophile area the place every ingredient has been rigorously thought-about to create an setting that honours each the music and the listener.

Unna is accessible now from The Vinyl Manufacturing facility store on 180g vinyl and is restricted to 500 copies worldwide. Take heed to ‘Rolig’ by way of the visualiser above.

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