PRE-ORDER: HIDING PLACES 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

ØKSE - "S/T" ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT AND NEW SINGLE

Here we are halfway through 2024 already, and it feels like we are just hitting our stride on this year’s releases. Our newest drop is also, in many ways, our boldest so far; ØKSE is a new experimental Jazz quartet that profiles like a multinational supergroup. Backwoodz is very proud to be putting out their self-titled debut album, which features billy woods, ELUCID, Cavalier, and Maassai. Partially recorded with Willie Green @ The GreenHouse in Brooklyn, and partially in Oslo, Norway, ØKSE is an international project in every sense of the word, but it was all built in-studio together, vocalists included. This is the sort of record that we hope you come to Backwoodz for; unexpected, experimental, passionate, and pretty fucking rad. So that’s the story; preorders are up now, as is the first single “Three Headed Axe”. We hope you tap in.

ØKSE - S/T

COMING OUT on AUGUST 9

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ØKSE's eponymous debut album is a daring experimental Jazz project that features contributions from some of hip-hop's most unique voices. The band itself is an international all-star team of avant-garde musicians; California-raised, NYC based drummer Savannah Harris, Danish saxophonist Mette Rasmussen, Haitian electronic musician Val Jeanty, and Swede Petter Eldh on bass, synths and sampler. Each already established as solo artists, as ØKSE they collectively mine new ground, pushing and pulling at the edges of genre. Four rappers come along for the ride, each more than capable of bending these tracks to their will; ELUCID and billy woods (aka Armand Hammer), and fellow Brooklynites Maassai, and Cavalier.
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ØKSE TRACKLISTING

1. Skopje feat. ELUCID
4. Amar Økse
5. Fragrance (some days doesn't have fragrance)
6. The Dive feat. Maassai
8. Onwards (keep going)
ØKSE means AXE in Danish. The Axe has a lot of connotations, being one of humankind's oldest tools. Axe is also Ashe; the life-force that runs through all things, living and inanimate. Ashe is a current or flow, a groove that initiates can channel so that it carries them along their road in life. These are the energies that flow through ØKSE, and animate this ambitious record.

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ØKSE - S/T [VINYL]

Features a single black vinyl packaged in a 12" jacket and custom sleeve with design by Ashes57. MP3 digital download is included with all vinyl orders!

ØKSE - S/T [CASSETTE]

Features a red shell FerroMaster C456 cassette tape with blank imprint packaged in a clear Norelco box with a 4-panel full-color J-Card with design by Ashes57. Limited to only 100 made! MP3 digital download is included with all cassette orders!

ØKSE - LONG SLEEVED SHIRT

Features a black long-sleeved Bella Canvas 3501 shirt with white ink with silk screened designs in four spots on front, back & both sleeves with art by Ashes57. Limited to only 50 made! Very few of each size available.
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ØKSE are (left to right): Val Jeanty, Mette Rasmussen, Petter Eldh, Savannah Harris
📸: Ziga Koritnik
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FIRST SINGLE NOW STREAMING: “THREE HEADED AXE”
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ØKSE SUMMER TOUR

Catch the band performing live at various festivals across the EU this Summer!
As great as this record is- and we think it is fantastic- if you have an opportunity to catch this band live, DO IT! ØKSE is kicking off a pre-release summer tour in July, then going back on the road once the album drops.

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