The project
Something lost remains.
Delenda is Ronny Jakobbson's solo music and visual project, rooted in northern Sweden. Ethereal female voices meet weighty electronic rhythms and cinematic soundscapes. Across its music and films, nature, memory and a mysterious female presence connect stories that could belong to the present or to a time long past.
It began with a friendship.
Delenda was founded in the late 1990s by Ronny Jakobbson and Per Boström. Their shared interest in books, film, nature, music and art shaped the project through experiments, walks and conversations.
The music combined spacious electronic textures with an organic feel. A female singer was part of the original vision, but none was found, leaving many compositions instrumental.
Finding a voice.
Ronny now revisits sketches and compositions begun decades ago. Artificial intelligence helps give selected pieces a vocal form, with many new versions remaining close to the original music.
The tools change, but the wish to make something personal with them remains.
The singer once imagined.
The singer imagined in those early years has become a recurring presence in Delenda's visual world. The women in its films carry the stories through what they notice, seek and choose.
Melancholy and understated sensuality run through the imagery. Hair and fabric respond to wind and light, while bare feet connect the figure to the ground.
Places that carry a story.
The forests, lakes, old mine workings and weathered buildings of Ronny's childhood in Västerbotten recur in the music. Lyrics often begin with a real place, a remembered detail or a passing observation. Some film images draw on his own photographs; others follow the songs into imagined landscapes.
An old stone tower standing alone in a yellow field can feel almost mythic, its presence shaped by age and solitude. Elsewhere, this world opens onto ancient forests, a storm coast or an abandoned greenhouse filled with warm light.
Simple actions can take on an almost ritual quality: burying a feather, carrying a stone, or leaving a flower. These small, deliberate gestures can mark a change that words leave unspoken. Some of the clothing carries that same sense of ceremony.
Wind, cloth and shifting light keep a quiet scene alive; a gesture, an encounter or a decision carries the story forward. The symbolism can remain open, while the emotional journey stays clear.
Old melodies and new stories share the same impulse: to give something felt or remembered a form that others can enter.
