We know her name (Irma Orm), where she’s from (Stockholm, Sweden), and that she might be a graphic artist, and that’s really about it. There’s very little to know about the woman who recorded and released Nektyr under the name Demen. Instead, whatever we think or feel about an artist’s songs becomes necessarily and inescapably filtered through what we know and feel about the artist themselves, for better or worse. The music no longer needs to stand on its own merits indeed, it can’t.
This is doubly true for those music obsessives who track down every last little detail about their favorite artists and albums, from their most obscure influences to the equipment used to achieve that particular sound during the recording process, from ephemera about their childhood to acquiring every single “B” side, alternate version, and outtake.Īs enjoyable as it can be to know so much about our favorite artists - if nothing else, it makes them more relatable, especially if you find that you have something even trivial in common with them - something intangible is lost when all mystery is gone. The moment something even appears to be mysterious, we instantly flock to Google, Wikipedia, and social media and do our best to fill up the information vacuum as quickly and thoroughly as possible before moving on to the next “mystery.” Nature, according to Aristotle, abhors a vacuum.
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