A regular on one of our favourite label collectives, http://soundcloud.com/origamisound, Asger Bruun Hansen’s Places Series contribution comes somewhat out of the blue. If you’ve followed all of The Places Series releases so far, you’ll know by now that the inspiration for these tracks can come from anywhere and knows no boundaries – be they physical or musical. And http://soundcloud.com/oddshapes sound is leading the charge amongst his peers in defining a very unique approach to electronic music. Desert Plant is dark, mysterious and packed full of energy – a new, unexpected sound from the most unlikely of places.

Sometimes inspiration peeks out of the ordinary, finding you at a point where you least expect it. It doesn’t always have to be the flash of the Eureka! moment, just the growing creep of realisation and a willingness to look beyond the standard wash of the everyday.

“Sometimes I take a particular street, leading away from the city, when I walk. It has these old wooden sheds all the way down along one side and I was immediately drawn to this mysterious feeling, as if somebody was trying to hide something on this empty street with all these poorly constructed sheds,” Asger explains.

It’s a feeling that underpins the eerie dissension and mystery of ‘Desert Plant’. Humming with a dark tension, Asger’s field recordings of a busy city contrast against the desolate, rail track-guided path on its outskirts.

“The street is close to the rail track and at some point it becomes a path, which lets you cross under a bridge,” he continues, “under that bridge, I recorded these great low-frequency sounds – a mix of the cars going over and the wind blowing beneath the bridge, with the sirens and city noises contributing to the soundscape.

“As I went along the road, literally, the ideas started building up inside my head. I remember feeling like slowly returning to reality when walking back that day.”

Those field recordings create an angry dissension, the agitated whip of the wind interrupting the mournful call of the vocals, gnashing over the dead space between stabbing, percussive beats.

A track wired by dark and low frequencies, it feels like you’ve stumbled across a place where horrible things happen and are hid, the ghosts of those actions lingering only until they’re discovered.

“It’s called Desert Plant because of the place feeling like it was completely deserted, yet it offered me so much in the form of atmosphere and inspiration. There’s life but you have to find it, and acknowledge it.”

(Place introduction by Reef Younis)

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ASIP020 Odd Shapes - Desert Plant

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Ambient & electronica music blog, mix series, record label and radio station. Est. 2008.

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Amphior is the creative alias of Danish producer Mathias Hammerstrøm, who crafts introspective soundscapes where melancholy and dreamlike euphoria intertwine. His music is shaped by the warmth of tape machines, vintage amplifiers, and the beauty of imperfection—like a dust-covered book that creaks when opened. With atmospheric instruments, haunting vocals, and lo-fi textures, he evokes nostalgia, decay, and the fleeting nature of memory.

He first introduced his music in 2014 with the Begone EP, released on Estonian label Loodma Recordings. This debut explored "Future Garage," blending skittering 2-step rhythms, rumbling basslines, distorted vocals, and the sound of rain-soaked cityscapes. In 2016, he followed up with the Unlocked EP before unveiling his first full-length album, Shadowland, in 2017 on Dutch label Shipwrec—an IDM-inspired, intricately layered collection. Transitioning into ambient music, Mathias released We Used to Dance in 2019, an analog synth odyssey featuring a remix by the prolific Sangam. His most recent album, Another Presence (2022), is an emotional, meditative, and spiritually pulsating work released on Italy’s Glacial Movements and mastered by Simon Scott of Slowdive.

His fourth album, Disappearing (2025), continues this exploration of memory and impermanence, reflecting on the fragile line between presence and absence.

📩 Contact: amphior (a) gmail . com

It all starts from the act Devil's Breath, which I form together with my bandmate Cultura Obscura. 

Devil's Breath

https://linktr.ee/devilsbreath

https://www.discogs.com/artist/5410980-Devils-Breath


I have my soloist music released using the following aliases

Esoteric Ethiopia 
	
A new alias that got its inspiration from the esotericism of agony - reflection of the darkest period ever experienced by the artist himself.

As from 2024, Esoteric Ethiopia is intended in becoming the principal soloist alias of the artist.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/15500952-Esoteric-Ethiopia

Office Of Exorcism 

Office Of Exorcism is intended for Ritual and/or Tribal influenced music - particularly in their natural form and in the Dark Ambient, Industrial and Experimental genres.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/12810956-Office-Of-Exorcism

[Dis]event

Within the parameters of [Dis]event's music influences - with the exception of Ritual and/or Tribal influenced music. [Dis]event is still active, but as from 2024 the most alias intended to be used most regularly is Esoteric Ethiopia.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/8821537-Disevent

Furthermore, the following is the Discogs Page of my bandmate Cultura Obscura,

https://www.discogs.com/artist/7978983-Cultura-Obscura


Together with my bandmate, and a friend of ours we own + run a label.

https://musicanalysisdiscussionsrecords.bandcamp.com/music

ASIP020 Odd Shapes - Desert Plant

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