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  • The Amateur Hermetic

    ESCUDRE07

    Artist: Ronnie Sundin

    Label: Komplott

    The Amateur Hermetic is an album about a nomadic lifestyle of moving to a new flat every second year, about feeding children and getting lost in occult references and religious doubts, about growing a beard. Isolation. The Philosopher's Stone.

    It is also about recording the sound of your own voice and transforming it into music, to take a part of yourself and shape it into something unrecognisable and alien to yourself. The lack of sleep. Fire, Wind, Water, Earth. The black monolith. To let go of reality and slip into the dream.

    It is also about people who tried to transform things, themselves and explore the inner secrets of nature through the use of alchemy. Angels. Queens. Peasants. Persian bread with peanut butter and lingonberry jam.

    It was conceived in springtime, in moonlight, with drunks howling in the dark outside the window - forever lost, still searching for that missing purpose, that inner light, that furnace of life, love, wealth and rejuvenation.

    March 2006

    Ronnie Sundin & Komplott
    Malmö, Sweden

  • Morphei

    H7

    Artist: Ronnie Sundin

    Label: Häpna

    Morphei is a soundtrack to a dream. A nighty-night record designed to make you WAKE UP and listen! Inspired by that in between state of wake and dreaming, when you're not quite sure whether you're asleep or not, this record presents a stream of realities seamlessly floating into each other, layers of events of acoustic and digital nature mingle; hear the Light-switch singing a duet with the Feedback-mixer, traces of Scandinavian wildlife intertwine with a tropical forest of digital insects, or hear the timestretched Teaspoon having a conversation with the Snow-balls of Thonk... you get the picture.

    Ronnie Sundin (b.1973) is trained in visual art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå, Sweden and mostly works with sound or soundrelated matters in a borderland between the art-scene and the music-scene. In 2001 he participated in the critically acclaimed invalidObject-Series that was released by the cross-media publishers Fällt based in Northen Ireland and he also released a CD on the Californian Ground Fault Recordings.