Djrum
Portrait With Firewood 2LP vinyl

As Portrait With Firewood is Felix’s most personal body of work to date, the product of an emotionally turbulent 2017, capturing the range of feelings and emotions he went through in vivid sonic beauty. By putting aside his previous sampladelic approach he returned to his childhood instrument of the piano as a core starting point. Felix is classically trained in the jazz tradition and influenced by the likes of Keith Jarrett and Alice Coltrane. Previously he was shy at the prospect of fans hearing his piano playing, but determined to overcome this fear he has brought forward a new honesty to his work. Felix collaborated with cellist Zosia Jagodzinska and vocalist Lola Empire. Jagodzinska recorded several takes of improvisations over the track Creature which Felix would chop, pitch and layer into new melodic lines and seed throughout the album. Felix's new approach expanded to experimentation with field recording, contact micing his beloved piano and purchasing his first hardware synth, all in service of enriching the personal, humane quality of the record.

NEW / Released in 2018 / Reissue 2022

Tracklist:

A1 Unblocked

A2 Waters Rising

A3 Creature Pt. 1

B1 Creature Pt. 2

B2 Sex

C1 Blue Violet

C2 Sparrows

D1 Showreel Pt. 3

D2 Blood In My Mouth