Ogenblik

"Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs—
To the silent wilderness
Where the soul need not repress
Its music lest it should not find
An echo in another's mind..."
PB SHELLEY 1822

Ogenblik is the latest music project from Gregor Ruigrok based in Leixlip, Ireland.

Album, This Used To Be The Sound Of The Future, released August 2024.

Ogenblik is a reflective look inwards at our relationship with the natural world, inspired by old field recordings and water stained bird guides.

Support from:

RTÉ Radio 1 - Folk On One
RnaG - An Taobh Tuathail
KEXP - Pacific Notions

"Leixlip-based musician Ogenblik's experiments in retrofuturistic production culminate in his debut album, This Used To Be The Sound of The Future. Employing a range of outdated recording techniques, from dictaphones to the ill-fated MiniDisc, Ogenblik splices everything together with environmental acuteness, Frankensteining innocuous acoustic guitar melodies into more pressing statements on the diminishing shelf-life of technology and human interest.... Mixing cute acoustic guitar lines with fractured beats and computerised sonics gives the instrumental music a voice—a voice which seems to be speaking from a graveyard for dead technologies, reminding you that the passing of time always leaves beauty and intrigue in its wake." - Jay Honeycomb (Pop Matters, No Transmission)

Press for Daffodil:

'A glorious slice of left-field pop... channels some of the woozy, inward-looking ambient pop of artists like Panda Bear, Washed Out and Here We Go Magic... gloriously disorienting' TOME TO THE WEATHER MACHINE

'His latest release is a genre-bender... makes this feel wonderfully organic' PODCART

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Gregor also (occasionally) releases as Trophy Boyfriend