Jimmy Svensson

Salt & Silence began as a conversation with photographer Jonas Edvard Emil Raagaard about his book Sea Strange Places and the possibility of creating music that could exist alongside his photographs.

That conversation became a sounding board. Ideas shifted, new directions emerged, and the music gradually evolved into what it is today: a quiet, ambient soundscape that ebbs and flows like the sea itself. A piece of music shaped as much by stillness as by movement, by what is heard and what remains just beyond reach.

The book opens a space between documentation and dream. The photographs are accompanied by a sensitivity to the sea’s dual nature: as a giver of life and an abyss, as beauty and danger.

Sea Strange Places is published by Forlaget Aftryk↗ (opens in a new tab).

I highly recommend following Jonas Edvard Emil Raagaard on Instagram↗ (opens in a new tab) and spending some time with his extraordinary photographs. Perhaps with the music playing in the background, allowing the two to meet in their own way.

Salt & Silence is released in two versions. With and without the sound of the sea.

Listen to Salt & Silence on Bandcamp↗ (opens in a new tab), Spotify↗ (opens in a new tab) or Apple Music↗ (opens in a new tab) or wherever you find your to music.