*2025 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Donnimaar is a music and visual arts project by Marie Kølbæk Iversen. The focus is on the magical songs of West Jutland that were documented in the 19th century by the Danish folklore collector Evald Tang Kristensen. The project is rooted in the partially forgotten and repressed ethnographic material, which also includes traditional songs that Marie Kølbæk Iversen’s great-great-great-great-grandmother passed on to Tang Kristensen, and which, in their narratives, bear witness to the struggle for autonomy of the West Jutland resistance against the cultural homogenization and territorial consolidation of Denmark in the late 19th century.

The project’s second album, O’Tilli, was released on 24 January 2025 in conjunction with Kølbæk Iversen’s solo exhibition New Atlantics at Kunsthal Aarhus. Rooted in Danish folk heritage yet shaped by contemporary experimental sound practices, the album blends spectral vocals, atmospheric instrumentation, and oral tradition into an immersive listening experience. It evokes a deep sense of place and memory, bridging ancestral narratives with a present-day sonic language.

The album’s title, O’Tilli—meaning “on the ground”—derives from a traditional song about a mermaid abducted by a Danish queen to serve as an oracle. Forced to dance on land, the mermaid writhes like a fish out of water—an image of displacement and resistance. The album was created in collaboration with Katinka Fogh Vindelev, Torleik Mortensen, Andreas Tykjær Restorff, and Michael Ejstrup, whose contributions deepen the work’s rich textures and lyrical complexity. Together, they shape a sound world that channels both apocalyptic unease and anti-materialist currents, all while remaining anchored in the rugged landscape of West Jutland where the work originated.