I [LP]

Oruma - I [LP]

Oruma is a trio formed by Ola Rzepka (drums, zither, percussion), Artur Ruminski (electric guitar), and Mat Barski (electric guitar). At its foundation is the musical dialogue previously developed by Ruminski and Barski as a guitar duo and documented on the albums On the Margin and At the Junction. Their encounter with Ola Rzepka during Krakow's Kakofonie series opened this music to a new sense of dynamics, pulse and collective form. Oruma's music exists at the intersection of free improvisation, noise, experimental postrock and post-kraut repetition. It avoids the conventional division between soloist and accompaniment. Instead, two electric guitars and drums gradually abandon their individual roles to form a single, constantly shifting sound organism -- moving from silence, open space and isolated gestures towards dense masses of sound. The trio's debut album consists of five pieces: 'Satellites,' 'Stranger,' 'This Mountain Is Alive,' 'A Rough Plan For Nostalgia,' and 'Hyperborea.' Together, they form a coherent journey: from distant signals and the first moment of contact, through friction and increasing physical intensity, to an expansive fourteen-minute finale.

01. Satellites
02. Stranger
03. This Mountain Is Alive
04. A Rough Plan For Nostalgia
05. Hyperborea