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Genre :: Ambient Source :: CDDA . :: :: Label :: House of Mythology R.date :: 2016.01.25 :: _::__ Cat.nr. :: HOM 002 Size :: 131,67 MB __::_ ::// \\:: ::/---------------------------------------------------------------------\:: :: :: /: Encoder :: LAME 3.98.4 -V0 :\ ..: Bitrate :: avg. 228kbps : . . Quality :: 44,1kHz/Joint Stereo . . . Website :: http://jester-records.com/ulver/ulver.html __ __ _ . : _ ____ _ _ ____ _ : . _ __ __ .\\\\------- : | ---\ /---------------------\ /--- | : -------////. +/ -\------- | | ----\ tracklist /---- | | -------/- \+ /: . : : . :\ /:: ::\ :: 01. England's Hidden 07:39 :: :: 02. Glammer Hammer 04:50 :: :: 03. Moody Stix 06:44 :: :: 04. Cromagnosis 09:48 :: :: 05. The Spirits that Lend Strength Are Invisible 03:16 :: :: 06. Om Hanumate Namah 07:43 :: :: 07. Desert/Dawn 08:35 :: :: 08. D-Day Drone 09:21 :: :: 09. Gold Beach 04:53 :: :: 10. Nowhere (Sweet Sixteen) 05:56 :: :: 11. Ecclesiastes (A Vernal Catnap) 09:01 :: :: 12. Solaris 02:13 :: :: ------- :: .. >> 79:59 .. __ __ _ . : _ ____ _ _ ____ _ : . _ __ __ .\\\\------- : | ---\ /---------------------\ /--- | : -------////. +/ -\------- | | ----\ release notes /---- | | -------/- \+ /: . : : . :\ /:: ::\ :: :: :: House of Mythology proudly presents the new Ulver album, :: :: with over 80 minutes worth of material. This album consists :: :: of multitracked and studio-enhanced live, mostly :: :: improvisational, rock and electronic soundscapes, 2/3 of :: :: which has never been heard before. :: :: :: :: In Newton's basic laws of motion - those which lie at the :: :: heart of modern physics - the paradox stands that constant :: :: velocity is essentially as natural as being at rest. True to :: :: form, in the now twenty-two-year-old life of Ulver, only one :: :: constant has remained, that being a forward-driving spirit :: :: that has moved this mercurial Norwegian-based collective :: :: forever through challenges and adventure anew, irrespective :: :: of reductive genre pigeonholing. Moreover, their latest :: :: voyage into the unknown is no different, marking another new :: :: chapter for an outfit characterised by wild and inspiring :: :: unpredictability, along with a fresh triumph for one of :: :: modern music's most iconoclastic forces. :: :: :: :: The basis for ATGCLVLSSCAP - which the band has been working :: :: with under the moniker '12' - arrives from recordings made :: :: at twelve different live shows that Ulver performed in :: :: February 2014, in which band the band vaulted into the deep :: :: end of an improvisatory approach to their performance. As :: :: Kristoffer Rygg, the prime mover of the band since its :: :: inception puts it wryly, "The tour was to be an experiment, :: :: kind of loose and scary for a band as 'set in their ways' as :: :: us." :: :: :: :: Although the line-up for these shows remained similar to :: :: that on 2012's psychedelic covers album Childhood's End, and :: :: the band had taken succour from the sounds and headspace :: :: they explored on that record, this was another break into :: :: new territory, using their live energy and spontaneity as :: :: the fuel for aural explorations that would surprise even the :: :: band themselves. "At the end of any album process, I can't :: :: wait to do something else," comments Rygg. "So yeah, it is :: :: partly borne out of that feeling, being a bit bored with the :: :: circumstances. It was quite liberating to do something more :: :: in the moment. One night a jam could be five minutes, and :: :: the next it could be fifteen. We couldn't have captured :: :: these songs in a studio environment." :: :: :: :: Once the tour was over, it was down to his bandmate Daniel :: :: O'Sullivan to take charge of these multitrack recordings, :: :: sculpting and editing hours of material in his North London :: :: enclave, formerly owned by charismatic artist and Coil :: :: associate, the sadly departed Ian Johnstone - as O'Sullivan :: :: noted, "The hungry ghosts of the now empty house appear to :: :: be burrowing into this record." Anders M°ller, Kristoffer :: :: Rygg and Tore Ylwizaker got involved a bit later, honing :: :: things from their end in Subsonic Society and Oak Hill :: :: Studios, Oslo, before the vinyl cutting process took place :: :: at THD Vinyl Mastering, also in Oslo, in which the band was :: :: fully involved in the crucial initial cut of the 14" :: :: lacquer. What resulted is the widescreen sweep and :: :: atmospheric splendour of ATGCLVLSSCAP, ultimately a piece of :: :: work that exists above and beyond any conventional live :: :: recording, rather a hallucinatory travelogue as potent an :: :: experience to bear witness to as it was to construct. :: :: :: :: As always in the world of Ulver, influences are disparate :: :: and diverse, yet as Rygg notes, "It's quite tributary in a :: :: way, there are clear nods to sounds from the past." Many of :: :: these dwell in progressive, electronic and krautrock realms, :: :: heralding a lifelong love within the band for the music of :: :: the 70s - the fiery mantras of 'Om Hanumate Namah' and the :: :: motorik drive of 'Cromagnosis' draw an astral trajectory :: :: between the propulsion of Kraftwerk/Neu! and the ritualistic :: :: intensity of prime Amon Dⁿⁿl II, whilst the spirits of both :: :: Klaus Schulze and John Carpenter are audible in the :: :: electronic soundscapes of 'Desert/Dawn', not to mention the :: :: Bernard Herrmann touch in the closing 'Solaris'. Even when :: :: the band revisits an earlier gem from 2000's Perdition City :: :: album, as on 'Nowhere (Sweet Sixteen)', its reinvigorated by :: :: their expansive and emotionally charged approach. :: :: :: :: "We always feel like, independently of what kind of :: :: instrumentation we use, we're still playing the same :: :: nocturnal stuff," laughs Rygg. "There are a few motifs that :: :: keep recurring all the time in what we do, and if it's in a :: :: rock form or an electronic form, it's always there." Yet as :: :: true as this may be, by shaking up their creative process, :: :: the band have summoned up a unique testimony to the creative :: :: power of a mighty force who remain blissfully free of genre :: :: or convention, ATGCLVLSSCAP is progressive in the truest :: :: sense of the word, a record that may be this capricious :: :: band's piΦce-de-resistance. :: :: :: :: . _ _ . :: \: :. \\ ___________ . ___________ // .: :/ __\____ :: ____ ___\ _ / BERC : 2016 \ _ /___ ____ :: ____/__ \\\f3! :: \\\ __ _/_________i_________\ /___/ /// :: cRO/// \ :: :\-\___________\_ ___ / _ _/___________/-/: :: / :: | . . _ _ _/ __/ . \_ _ _ . . | :: : :::::::: | | \\\\\/ _______\____|\ \///// | | :::::::: : :: | | -\-\/____/-------------\____\/-/- | | :: :: | | \ :|: / | | :: : : | . ` ::: ' . | : : . . | : ::: : | . . | :::....:::....::: | : ::::::::::::::::: : . :::''``:::''``::: . : ::: : . ::: . .:. :