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Moljebka Pvlse | Seventeen Migs of Spring - Ravha | Electricity Gardens:
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This
collaboration album by Moljebka Pvlse (this time as a trio, with Karin Jacobson
and Maria Nordin as the extra members) and the Israeli band Seventeen Migs of
Spring contains both individual works from each project and a material that has
been made together. It starts with Moljebka Pvlse's nearly 27 minutes long
Ravha, a soundscape with breeze-sound and crowd noises as its most obvious
elements. There's of course lots of other things in the mix as well, such as a
violin and "walking in leaves and Styrofoam". What results is a strange,
developing sound-art work that defies catgorization. It breaks and changes, yet
stays intact at all times. Second in line is the shared work, Calm Gardens (at
night), which clearly fuses together the styles of both groups into one whole.
It is also the definitely best piece on the album. The solo part of Seventeen
Migs of Spring is divided into five tracks, all of the different fro one
another, yet existing as a logical procession. Electricity Gardens thus moves
forward, track by track, in an increasingly minimalist, increasingly
clinical-sounding fashion. There is nevertheless a warm tone and a certain
fullness to it. In addition, the structure of even the most minimalist parts is
remarkably solid; for example, Alternating Current uses in its squeals patterns
that far more typical in harsh noise than in the glitch music it sound-wise
resembles.
This album is in no way easy to approach or light to listen to. It also becomes
more and more difficult and increasingly distant from the listener the further
it progresses, that's how weird it gets.. Despite these issues, it is a very
fine piece of work, something one can genuinely call "experimental music" in the
best sense of the phrase, and something that well combines the legacy of
avant-garde to new innovativeness.
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