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JOSEFSON, MATHIAS - As Above So Below

Format: mCD-R Label & Cat.Number: Taalem alm 136 Release Year: 2020 Note: stunning, multi-layered installation work presented at "Deichtorhallen" in Hamburg, 2019, by the man behind MOLJEBKA PVLSE: "It is a massive work, right from the start, until the very end, save for one small lapse in volume, following which the piece sets off in a slightly different course and more string sounds become apparent, adding, oddly enough, a more organ-like ring to it. This is quite some powerful drone music." [Vital Weekly] Price (incl. 19% VAT): €5.50 More Info the composition "as above so below" was premiered in wave field synthesis as part of a multimedia installation at deichtorhallen, during the internationales bauforum hamburg, 2019 composed, produced, and mastered by fredrik mathias josefson at eleventh planet https://taalem.bandcamp.com/album/as-above-so-below-alm-136 "Frederik Mathias Josefson, formerly known as Moljebka Pvlse, or perhaps still known as such? I am altogether not sure what makes Josefson decide for one name or the other. 'As Above So Below', one of those alchemical things, but the title might also reflect the fact that it was a multimedia installation in Hamburg, 2019. I would like to think (I might be wrong of course), that Josefson uses quite a bit of field recordings but also various stringed objects (by which I don't necessarily mean guitars, although I also don't exclude them), but now it all comes with some heavy treatment and these days I have no idea what is the preferred method applied by Josefson. I would think that he uses quite a bit of analogue sound effects and/or synthesizers and with these, he spins a solid web of sounds. Now, this is more what one (probably) expects from Taalem, I would think and Josefon delivers the goods. It is a massive work, right from the start, until the very end, save for one small lapse in volume, following which the piece sets off in a slightly different course and more string sounds become apparent, adding, oddly enough, a more organ-like ring to it. This is quite some powerful drone music."