The work of Swedish-Finnish artist Marja Johansson, a member of the Kemialliset Ystävät ensemble, Tsembla operates out of Turku, Finland. The album is the project’s third full-length and follows Nouskaa Henget (2013) and Fauna (2011).
Tsembla’s arrangements of sounds from manipulated samples, electronics and objects are rich in detail, riding on waves of warped melodies, fluttering rhythms, abstract voices and mutating textures. Terror & Healing (released on New Images Ltd., the label run by Real Estate’s Matt Mondanile) is a string of mind adventures, ten miniatures of possibilities, a bunch of invisible cities and imaginary beings. It’s a contribution to the exploration and unmapping of reality through imaginative research, remaking the ears into…
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…the fingers of the blind, piecing the multitude back into music.