The Häxa Curse

This project and album is inspired by a woman who slept for 32 years, Karolina Olsson. The circumstances surrounding her three decades of slumber are mysterious and strange. Nobody knows exactly what happened. Fourteen year old Karolina was out in cold weather, playing alone, when she suffered a head wound. Four days later she had a terrible toothache. Her family attributed all this to the curse of a witch. She was sent to bed. She then slept for 32 years. During this time she was fed two glasses of milk every day while sleeping. She seemed to be decades younger than she really was. Nobody knows what really happened to Karolina Olsson when she was out playing alone. These tracks are composed in a way that means they go on forever. It's as if they were short excerpts of much larger, longer pieces. They are the strange offspring of HNW and death industrial and musique concrète. -The Sleeper of Oknö