Emile Bojessen — broke body skeletal redeem nothing

Here’s a recent two-track release from UK-based sound-maker & academic Emile Bojesen. The two tracks are themed around the experimental and nihilistic poetic prose-centred novel 2002’s Bone Snare Bite by Michael Mc Aloran. With the sound moving between building electro scaping, and choppily textured yet moody noise-ambient crossbreeds.

The release is a digital download. The cover artwork takes in a shadowy and slightly blurred picture of a distant mountainscape- though it’s very unclear exactly what the picture is, adding a feeling of dark mystery to proceedings. It can be downloaded directly from here. 

Both tracks here come in at dead on the 11.56 mark- so I’m presuming there is a reason/ meaning behind this?!...maybe something to do with the book it’s themed around. First up we have “broke body skeletal”- this opens with a slowly looping mid-range electro tone- this is buoyant if slightly angularly sci-fi in its feel. As we progress the central tone becomes more pressing & urgent in its repetition, with a background of more lulling ambient pulse ’n’ buzz. At points, we find more sustained note holds, as well as slightly going off pattern loops/ original pitch swifts. This creates a feeling of ominously and strange intergalactic tunnel- as if one is watching a slowly spinning-in-blackness spacecraft being attacked by dully glimmering metallic space worms. Towards the end whole thing breaks down in uneasily series of blips 'n' blops.

Next/ finally we have “Redeem Nothing”- here we begin with a blend of low-end electro tone hover and simmer hazed noise texturing. As we progress we start to make out subtle traces of dark ambient glimmer and hoover, this is soon joined by a sense of jittering and vaguely glitch-bound choppiness- which creates both a feeling of apprehension and unease. In the end, getting a blend of sort of deconstructed metallic vibe hits, and their electro tone hack reverberations- all making for a nicely unbalancing, and nervy end to proceedings.

broke body skeletal redeem nothing is another worthy example of electro tone studying from Bojesen, with the tracks rewardingly building wonky 'n' skewing tendencies creating a wonderful chaos/ sense of unpredictability.