Ödland The White Boat

Photographs created for Ödland’s EP Le bateau blanc (The White Boat), shot and edited by Lorenzo Papace.

The Story of the White Boat

Aboard the white boat drift three lost souls:

• Anissa, a frightened dreamer
• Blanche, a violinist with a mysterious past
• The Captain, a pianist locked away in his cabin

In the heart of the crossing, the elements rage.
During a devastating storm, Anissa is thrown overboard, vanishing into the depths.

This tragedy is only a prelude: a recovered letter warns of a forbidden territory, hidden south of the town of Östersund — the forgotten moorlands of Ödland.

The white boat becomes a floating allegory:
A maritime huis clos where memory, identity, and time collapse gradually, like a ghost ship drifting aimlessly across the sea.

Inspired by a letter found on a Norwegian beach, the song oscillates between diary entry and hallucination, carried by a spectral and unstable musical atmosphere, where altered harmonies evoke the gradual erasure of memory.

Here, the sea becomes the vast graveyard of sunken dreams.