Mala Herba (with Joanna Zabielska and Alma Bektas)

Mala Herba is a solo project of producer, sound artist, and queer activist Zosia Holubowska. Their artistic approach can be described as queering archives through reimagining traditional melodies and magical tropes. Their productions are multi-layered narratives and function as healing rituals. 

Their music is inspired by industrial and experimental electronic sounds as well as traditional Polish music. This mixture makes all their performances exceptional in the contemporary electronic music scene. Mala Herba is a searching artist, always looking for new inspirations and re-inventing their style. 

Their newest incarnation as a Wounded Healer is an outcome of a three-year process of artistic research and various collaborations. The record and a multi-sensory AV performance that celebrates a communal approach to healing. 

They have performed at festivals across Europe like Whole (DE), Pop Fest (AT), Bent Fest (UK), Tauron Nowa Muzyka (PL), Fekete Zaj (HU), Fluff Fest (CZ), and clubs like Urban Spree (Berlin), De School (Amsterdam), Underdogs (Prague), MS Stubnitz (Hamburg), Elektrowerkz (London), Pogłos (Warsaw) and Miscellenia (AU).

In 2022 they released the EP titled Niedola / Woe. It is an audio-visual collaboration between Mala Herba and Sven Harambašić. Mala Herba's tracks escape genres, weaving ritualistic rhythms, dark lore, and wailing vocals with rough, industrial sounds. In 2021, they debuted their first LP album titled Demonologia. International critics very well received it. Nick Roseblade from The Quietus called the album “a disco at a witchy ritual”. In 2023, they appeared as a guest on Naphta ‘Żałość’ critically acclaimed internationally. They have also appeared on several compilations by Syntetyk, Exiles and Hör to name a few.

Wounded Healer, so heißt das neue Album von Zosia Hołubowska alias Mala Herba. Darauf gibt es dunkle Dämonenbeschwörungen zu hören, pochende treibende Rhythmen und ekstatische Sounds: Synth Witchcraft, so nennt Mala Herba, gebürtig aus Polen und lebend in Wien, diese Musik. Den alten Gothic Rock von Siouxsie Sioux kann man darin ebenso hören wie alle Arten von elektronischer Trance. Auf den Konzerten von Mala Herba wird all das mit ritualistischen Choregrafien und Visuals ergänzt. Einen Moment der Gemeinschaft und Heilung zu schaffen, der als kollektive Anstrengung verstanden wird - das ist das Ziel dieser außergewöhnlichen Performance.