ERIK WØLLO: Quiet Reach

From the album WHERE THE RIVER WIDENS by Erik Wøllo. Released March 7 2025 on Projekt Records.

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Created on the electric guitar, these 11 tracks from Norwegian electronic musician Erik Wøllo are meditative, atmospheric, and filled with elegant melodic clarity. The impressionistic, minimalist guitar lines evoke a balance of intimacy and spaciousness. Created and inspired in the valley of Skåbu, Norway, in the late summer of 2024, the 44-minute album is imbued with the spirit of its mountainous surroundings. It captures a slow tranquil intensity preserving spontaneous moments.

The main instrument is the electric guitar, looped and layered with effect pedals, creating a seamless fusion of organic expression and sonic texture.

Erik reflects: “I was invited to be Artist in Residence at Skåbu, in the high-altitude mountains of the Jotunheimen region. For two weeks I focused on creating art, using the facilities to work on woodcuts, linocuts and more. I, of course, brought my guitar and my looping pedals, and was inspired to record a lot of new material which I later refined in my home studio. Everything was performed and composed on the fly, I tried to retain the purity of those initial performances with just a few elements and details added later, for a subtly broader expression. Each track is a kind of meditation on stillness and introspection. That could be a metaphor for a slow drift down a calm widening river: a gentle flow, yet filled with life."

Water and a river’s state of flux can be a metaphor for life’s evolution. When small mountain creeks turn into rivers, then culminate and meet to form a delta, then end in a lake or the ocean. “The delta is where the river widens and where the water is quiet,” Erik notes, “This gave the inspiration and the title for this album. The theme draws inspiration from the mountains and rivers as metaphors for untouched, pure nature existing on its own terms.”


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