Moljebka Pvlse – Borrowed Scenery: Appearance (EP – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Soundscape.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Mathias Josefson has been releasing productions under the Moljebka Pvlse moniker for more than twenty years now. This work has been written during the ongoing pandemic and its lockdown.
Content: The work is conceived as a Soundscape; endless sound waves revealing a mysterious atmosphere made of sonic manipulations and field recordings. The composition moves on for more than 20 minutes creating a sensation of monotony.
+ + + : What you feel when listening to this work is totally fitting with the global impression people got during the lockdown: boredom and fright. The mysterious sphere emerging from this work creates an imaginary, apocalyptic sensation and yet it has something relaxing as well. I also want to say a word about the cool artwork.
– – – : I think we already got too much monotony during the pandemic so I don’t need a bonus.
Conclusion: I’ve already heard much more exciting and convincing productions from this Swedish project.
Best songs: “Appearance”.
Rate: 6.
Listen to “Borrowed Scenery: Appearance”:
Artist: www.moljebka.com / www.facebook.com/Moljebka.Pvlse
Label: www.zoharum.com / www.facebook.com/zoharum
About Moljebka Pvlse
Moljebka Pvlse is the project of Mathias Josefson, based in Stockholm, Sweden, and active since 1999. The music combines heavily processed guitars, electronics, field recordings and found sounds into layered drone and ambient soundscapes. Josefson has issued work through labels including Cold Meat Industry, which released “Sadalmelik” in 2002, as well as Eibon Records, Segerhuva, Beast Of Prey, Cyclic Law, Drone Records and Reverse Alignment.
Side-Line reviewed “Discourse On Lightness” in 2017 and “Komoku” in 2019. Zoharum released “Borrowed Scenery: Appearance” on 27 October 2021 as a single long-form piece, part of a set of borrowed places the label describes as written in three long compositions.
The Zoharum run continued with “The Distant Past Resounds” in 2023 and “An Expression Of A Poetry That Was Lost” in 2026.
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