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Skare

About Me


Skare is the collaboration of Mathias Josefson, Fredrik Olofsson and Per Ã…hlund. The members of Skare are all fascinated by the circulation of water, snow and ice. The metamorphosis from gas to floating liquid to snow to solid ice through freezing, the light reflecting from the snow and filtered through the ice as a prisma and - most of all - the sound of this ever ongoing circle.
To The Other Shore
Skare's first album, Solstice City, is an interpretation of a journey through a shifting landscape where the city meets nature. Departing from a distant and foreign shore, the traveller embarks a ship, uncertain of his destination. This prelude, introduced vividly in "To the other shore", releases this pilgrim to further explore yet unchartered territories. Leaving all man-made conventions, the second track "Through Wind and Broken Ice" takes us where the city imitates nature. Finally, a factory appears in the whiteout; a place where angels are manufactured as presented in the final track "The Snow Angel Factory"...
The vehicles used by Skare on this journey are field recordings, found sounds and treated and manipulated instruments. All sound material has been digitally processed and arranged at Studio 3, EMS in Stockholm, Sweden, 2006.
The album was released by Glacial Movements Records in February 2009.
www.glacialmovements.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/12/2006
Band Members: Mathias Josefson
- Sounds & Editing

Fredrik Olofsson
- Videos & Live Visuals

Per Ã…hlund
- Sounds & Editing
Influences: Cold, ice, wind, stillness, aurora borealis...
Sounds Like: Crust on frozen machinery...
Record Label: Glacial Movements Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Tour, October 2010

We're planning a tour with SKARE, DEAD LETTERS SPELL OUT DEAD WORDS and MARTIN HERTERICH in October 2010. Anyone interested, get in touch!
Posted by on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:17:00 GMT

New review from Heathen Harvest

Skare are made up of Mathias Josefson (of Moljebka Pulse and Isoramara), Fredrik Olofsson and Per Ahlund. A primary motivation of Solstice City is their strong interest with water, snow and ice.  Aspe...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:30:00 GMT

Nice (shortened) Review

"...Solstice City is not a completely integrated whole, despite consisting of just three tracks. There is a lot of change. Yet the problems somehow vanish, either due to the obvious experimental natur...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:04:00 GMT

New album to come...

We will start working on our new studio-album in July. The follow up to 'Solstice City' will hopefully be completed by the end of 2009. /Skare
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:23:00 GMT

New review of 'Solstice City'

SKARE (Swe)Solstice City(Glacial Movements)SKARE is proud to present us its debut album Solstice City, and what an amazing production of such Swedish trio. SKARE is an ambient experimental structu...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:49:00 GMT

Review from Darkroom (Italian)

La Glacial Movements prosegue il proprio discorso sull'ambient isolazionista, dando alle stampe il lavoro d'esordio degli scandinavi Skare. Dietro questo nome si nascondono personaggi già noti nel set...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 00:18:00 GMT

Review from Textura

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2006, Solstice City, Skare's contribution to the Glacial Movements catalogue, pursues a clearly-delineated narrative line in its three tracks. Working with field recor...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 00:15:00 GMT

Review from Octopus (French)

Comme cela avait été le cas sur le Like A Slow River de Lull, ou le Time Frost de Rapoon, la glace en tant que matière mobile et liquide, modulaire et organique, vivante presque constitue le cSur de c...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 00:13:00 GMT

Review from Sideline

Solstice City is the debut release by the Swedish duo of Mathias Josefson and Per Ahlund as atmospheric ambient project Skare.  The concept behind the album is that it follows a journey from the cit...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 00:12:00 GMT

Skare live at next fLIM!

Next fLiM: 8th of AprilLive:Mokira (Type)Skare (Glacial Movements)DJ: CombinetorVisuals: Vidiots@ Nordic Light Hotel Vasaplan 7, Stockholm 20-01, 18 Years.
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:58:00 GMT