Fjord abounds in striking sonic images with a bold poetic sensibility which seems to open a world entirely its own as it deepens our experience of this world as it actually is. Field recordings are layered and blended with those of everyday objects and the occasional instrument in a dynamic assemblage which strips away the familiarity of a sound's source for the richness of its connotative potential. These fragmentary and repetitious sounds are the locus of a folded experience of the world, suggesting the intricate workings of memory and the complex external-internal relations held within the depths of subjectivity. Moving beyond mere representation of nature or mere documentation of human activity, Fjord finds their subtle points of interaction, wonderfully attentive to those small, incidental moments which texture life and which harmonize humans with their environments.
– Adam Zuckerman
Selected reviews on Fjord
“Dotted with field recordings taken in New York and Iceland, the album conjures images through its use of aberrant and droning textures, resulting in a noise that aims to penetrate the normal defenses we’ve established in our subconscious and compel us to consider alternate angles of the world and our memories of it. Moments of aqueous detail collide with plinking electronics and phasing rhythms to create a core of almost imperceptible melodic flux. Attention should be given to how we become lost in its landscapes, and how we might find our way out again. Ozaki perfectly captures a sense of hesitant optimism, of the possibly of balance between us and our environment, but there is much work to be done. And Fjord is certainly the sound of that work in its infancy.”
Joshua Pickard, Beats Per Minute