Sentrifuge by Pjusk

"Our Norwegian electrically actuated Pjusk (Jostein Dahl Gjelsivik) inevitably delivers assurance time and time again, adopting a new modular approach alluring adept dexterity beyond the fiefdom of the current electronic étude.

On his latest release Sentrifuge, the artists’ ability perambulates its very own centrifuge with a glorious subterranean throb of instinctive pulsation apart the pale of expansion on the pre-release featured track “Randsone.” With further navigation through the steepening brine of “Den Jeg Var Før,” Pjusk certainly takes one breathlessly into the one they were before, wading into an immediate sidestep into the marching macrocosm “Ikke Se Ned.” Lush warmth elongates the clacking tides flowing in the duration of the “Tidevann Og Kosmisk Asfalt” as mountainous realms evaporate in the final Tibetan exploratory acquiesce of “Fabelverden.”

As a veteran crux within the ever-evolving electronic panorama, Pjusk aligns with Somewherecold Records for the first time on Sentrifuge, expertly demonstrating his unique handle and personal proficiency in electronic composition and shifting platonic activity."
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https://igloomag.com/reviews/pjusk-sentrifuge-somewherecold

"Shaping washed-out, layered abstractions of thoughts, time, moods and places from out of the “modular system” apparatus and what sounds like the air itself, the Norwegian electronic artist Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik tries something a little different with his newest Pjusk release.

Subtly sculpting ambiguous, mysterious ambient worlds that never quite settle – traversing as they do the dreamy, otherworldly, fabled and cosmic planes -, Jostein’s inaugural release for the crazily prolific Somewherecold imprint favours slow builds and reverberated undulations that merge the organic and mechanical; a soundtrack in which the reedy rasps of an obscured instrument can conjure up Tibetan mystique whilst pondering a cloudless, incandescent blue evening sky, or, convey kosmische-like space freighters travelling towards alien paradises.

Modulations, sine waves, chinked and chimed bottles, metallic purrs and burns, zip-wires, liquefied shapes, solar winds, mirrored reversal effects are used to create visions of a propeller-propelled leviathan machine hovering over beautifully rendered landscapes. The tinkling of a buoy on a topographic ocean; a patchwork of firework stars; ethereal cosmic sirens; places in which gravity doesn’t exist, Jostein’s centrifugal motioned ship glides across and lands amongst some magnificent contemplative and stirring scenes.

Occasionally a quiet synthesised beat, some drum pad rhythm adds a semblance of direction and propulsion. Traces too can be felt, heard of distant radiowaves, broadcasts; the drifted resonance of voices and music caught in the atmosphere. Shades of neoclassical Roedelius, some of Tim Story’s piano touches, a little bit of Mapstation, Edgar Frosse, Air Liquide and early Aphex spring to my loosened mind, on what is a really impressive slow-moving modular and tonal piece of escapism."

~Dominic Valvona
https://monolithcocktail.com/2022/03/09/the-perusal-27-el-khat-ukraine-special-kick-kristine-leschper/