A uncommon look of the exploratory listening routines of Civilistjävel!.
Civilistjävel! takes his name from a yelled line of invective taken from Ådalen 31, a movie from Swedish director Bo Widerberg checkingout the 1931 Ådalen shootings, when Swedish military forces eliminated 5 labour demonstrators in the Ådalen sawmill district. Translating approximately as “civilian bastard!”, the exclamatory hostility imbued in the alias stimulates a sort of creative nom de guerre, striking a discordant tone with the hazy drift and foggy pulse of the enigmatic artist’s noise. Yet appropriating the language of state violence just provides to the secret, deliberate or otherwise, of the guy who hasactually been explained as “a fantasy of the pre-internet period.”
Over the course of his veryfirst 5 jobs, self-released to rapturous action with the assistance of Low Company Records, Civilistjävel! burrows through the pulsating textures and cold throb of ambient and dub techno, a noise he would go on to improve, broaden and improve on 2 more launches for the dependably dazzling FELT, Järnnätter and Fyra platser. Seemingly summoned from the ether of pre-digital electronic experimentation, the artist declines to bow to the algorithm, launching music without description, stirring archival product from the ’90s and ’00s in with more current work.
“Music is about neighborhood and linking with individuals,” he informed Truants in2022 “I think algorithms merely are not excellent at this, or favorable to a healthy music neighborhood.” This ire towards streaming platforms, as well his optimism for the neighborhoods that may grow in their lack, blooms throughout his Fact mix, a winding expedition through morerecent product and older quirks that discovers kindred musical spirits throughout continents and years, supplying us with a look of the listening routines of an artist who issuccessful in hearing through the sound.
You can discover Civilistjävel on Instagram and Bandcamp.
Tracklist:
Jenny Vinterqvist – ‘Through My Deforestation’
Topdown Dialectic – ‘B4’
Akrüül – ‘TR003’
Eszaid – ‘Indraic Cut’
Yushh – ‘Kara Arriba’
Dites Safran – ‘Boka’
Civilistjävel! – ‘Järnnätter (Ossia remix)’
Rosso Polare – ‘Albanella’
Bavuma – ‘Festmusik (Gaava Buyere)’
Litüus – ‘Prtn: 003/2’
Bandulu – ‘Thunder Asunder’
Gorgonn – ‘Invisible’
Romeli Kerabinki – ‘Liturgical Chant’
Laila Sakini – ‘Message 002’
Eva Rune, Agneta Stolpe, Susanne Rosenberg, andsoon – ‘Vallmusik Kring Stångtjärn’
Mayssa Jallad – ‘Burj Al Murr (October 25 to 27)’
Poeia – ‘Azure’
Svanökören – ‘Mitt län’
Yara Asmar – ‘There Is A Science To Days Like These (But I