Moljebka Pvlse — Borrowed Scenery
Moljebka Pvlse is solo project of Stockholm, Sweden based Mathias Josefson. The project blends electronic and acoustic instrumentation with field recordings, and Borrowed Scenery is a twelve-inch vinyl release taking into two twenty-minute slices of dense ambient soundscaping.
Moljebka Pvlse project has been active since 2000- releasing twenty-plus full-lengths, and a good selection of splits and shorts. Borrowed Scenery is presented on 180-gram vinyl, which comes in an edition of two hundred copies.
On side one we have “A Natural Landscape” which comes in at the 20.13 mark. It opens with a blend of lightly buzzing ‘n’ hazing tone simmer, subdued yet constantly tolling vibe/ metal percussive tones, and building drone harmonics. As we move on more sways and ebbs of both string simmer ‘n’ slightly serrated drone drift are added- with a more glowing/ hovering retro electronic feel appearing in the tracks last quarter, with lapping sea field recordings just been heard. On the whole, the track rather reminded me of a more pressing and thick take on the type of thing found on Tangerine Dreams 1973 album Atem.
Over on the second side, we have “Follow The Lakeshore” which comes in at the slight longer 20.54 mark. The track opens in an already thick ‘n’ hovering mesh of guitar drones, wavering electro simmers, and light bowing to forking tones. As the track progresses both more simmering & tone bowing tonalites start to occur within the droning mass of the whole thing, and this creates a rewarding feeling of un-balancement and lightly dizzy sonic gravity shift. With this track, there is more of a pressing, and slightly serrated feel to proceedings- though it still stays very much in the dense ambient side of things. At around the mid-way point the more serrated edges smooth out/dips back with a more meditative feel coming into play, and this is joined by what sounds like distant field recordings of seashore waves crashing. With higher/ warmer keyboard keys weaves appearing in the track last quarter.
So, in finishing Borrowed Scenery features two side-long slice of compelling ambience, that is both dense and gently morphing. With the whole thing having a rather 70’s ambient krautrock flow to its unfold.