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 is the name of the new album by Zosia Hołubowska alias Mala Herba. It combines sinister demonic incantations, pummelling rhythms, and ecstatic sounds: synth witchcraft says the Polish-born, Vienna-based artist. Vestiges of old gothic rock of Siouxsie Sioux mingle with all kinds of electronic trance. At Mala Herba’s concerts, this soundscape is augmented with ritualistic choreographies and visuals that envelop the senses and the body: creating a moment of communion and healing understood as a collective effort – that is the very aim of these extraordinary performances.