Pictures Of The Floating World

After releasing multiple studio-albums, with the latest release

being a vinyl-reissue for his debut album 'On Claws', I Am Oak

will now release a new live EP with eight solo songs recorded

in Brussels, Belgium. The EP is called 'Pictures of the Floating

World' and I Am Oak will celebrate the release with a show at

the 7 Layers Festival in Amsterdam on October 1st, two days

after the official release, which will be on the 29th of

September.

I Am Oak's Thijs Kuijken about the album: "The title "Pictures

of the Floating World" is a translation of the term 'Ukiyo-e', the

old Japanese print art, which focusses on depicting the fleeting

moments in performing arts and traveling. This is exactly what

this record is, both musically and visually, so this term seemed

to embody the whole record for me."

The artwork was drawn by 'The Things We Are' (Joost

Stokhof), who explains: "I was part of the band while they

travelled through Germany and Switzerland. When they were

driving from one show to the next, setting up equipment, sound

checking, performing or selling merchandise I was there,

closely observing and searching for the details that were most

characteristic for tour life to me. I put all of these moments

together in a series of drawings I made while we were driving

through Europe."

This release is limited to 333 hand numbered copies. It

includes a beautiful 50 x 50 cm fold-out poster with drawings

by 'The Things We Are'.