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Norwegian artist Kim Sølve is the brain behind a number of visual artworks within the black metal scene, counting cover arts for important bands such as Darkthrone and Mayhem. Beside his working on visual artwork, Kim Sølve also has a foot in the sonic arts. Two new albums demonstrate the musical approach of the artist. First project is called Swarms. As the name suggests, the style is drone ambient on this latest album titled "The silver hour". Apart from Kim Sølve, Swarms consists of Peter Berntsen, Bjeima and Qeriq. The expression is extremely dark turning associations towards classics such as Lustmord's "The place where the black stars hang" (Soleilmoon, 1994) and Inade's "Aldebaran" (Cold Spring, 1996). Five intersections, with titles such as "Asleep in silver residue" and "Children mimicking shadows", floats in atmospheres of deep rumbling drones sometimes sounding like the buzzing of heavy bee swarms. With the addition of Industrial noises and strange otherworldly sounds, especially final track "He came as swarms" pulls the listener into an hypnotic state of listening with its almost half hour runtime. Next project PRONOUNCED "SEX", is a joint venture between Kim Sølve and compatriot artist Zweizz. Again the musical direction is pointed towards dark ambience. Compared to the aforementioned, this album has more noisy interventions and with more weight on field recordings. That part of the album has been used as the soundtrack for underground zombie-flicks makes sense, since the atmospheres invites the listener into soundscapes of creepy darkness. Two interesting releases with Kim Sølve being part of the musical brain. |
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