Emile Bojesen — Scrape

Scrape is an uncomfortably wonky & often highly soured sonic journey in minimal tone sculpting. It’s a release to put you ill at ease, or get you slowly unsettled, so unlike some minimal soundscaping this certainly won’t soothe or mellow you out, really having the opposite effect. The album is a ten-track digital release on highly respected sound art label Line.

Emile Bojesen is a Winchester based sound-maker & academic. He’s been sonically active since the early 2000s, and his work has moved from noise fuelled hardcore punk, onto electro-tinged & hardcore influenced pop music, and soundscaping/ noise. Scrape is his first release on Line.

Scrape consists of ten tracks- each of these run between just over one and five minutes, and thorough-out the tonal range is narrow, subtly seared & uncomfortably. Each track finds Bojesen selecting one or two layers of electro tone- then he stretches into lightly seared, subtly bayed, and wavering sound movements- that move between unwell drone, grim space-bound swirls, and more shrill-to-baying electro tone washes. To add to the unease & uncomfortability of the whole thing, a few tracks sudden cut out in a jarring manner.

I’d say you’ve got to enjoy often sullen & always sparse electro soundscaping to get the most out of Scrape- equally, if you like droned out subtle noisemaking I think you’ll also get something from what we have here. To pick up a copy & hear samples head here