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Ulver — Drone Activity

It all happened in a haze. I am not sure everyone was prepared to obey the summons and forsake the shore in order to be pulled under by the loudness of sound. Yet the ethos on that crisp October night was clear in its wording: Drone Activity.

Upon entering the old fish-warehouse, now converted into an activity hall, on the new Oslo waterfront, the security guards barely cared to check our tickets. Even mammoths would have been able to hide in this enormous dark space, illuminated by a few logos and stalls of sugary drinks, about to disappear in a sea of smoke.

Disappearance comes in many shapes in the age of extinction. Following the Danish noise act Damien Dubrovnik, Ulver started out in a subtle manner, carefully examining the territory, vast and waste. Screeching sounds echoed distant roars from the approaching edge as snowflakes pierced the air with ferocious speed. Where to go from there?

A retreat into the sunken paradise. Half-buried misty temples, giant creatures and vaguely prehistoric figures emerged as depth and time intertwined, from the ancient Atlantis to the northernmost seas.

We stayed there for 90 minutes, of which 70 have been meticulously mixed and mastered for this release. All of them are new sounds. Darker and more dire, yet containing the vibe of their previous semi-improvisatory sessions, documented and catalogued on the “Zodiac” album, ATGCLVLSSCAP (2016).

If that Zodiac album was a free-form Ulver interpreting the signs in the stars, Drone Activity stares into the abyss, documenting those moments after the last rays of sun speckle the surface and careless subterranean streams start determining the course.

“Something murky and liminal emerged, in sound and space,” the band states in their liner notes. I can’t think of a more apt description of what, and to where, Ulver brought us that night. There is no shoreline a thousand feet down.

— Bandcamp

Label: #House_Of_Mythology — HOM018
Country: UK
Released: 11 May 2019

#Drone, #Ulver

Ulver — Sic Transit Gloria Mundi EP

The sad remains from our Caesarean banquet. Two songs we kind of left on the drawing board but resumed work on this summer. Additionally, a cover of a childhood favourite – one we actually started some twelve–thirteen years ago – from the time we first started thinking about making “pop” music. This EP was finalized in our new studio in the old town of Oslo in September, and sent off to Youth's (Martin Glover and Michael Rendall) in London in October, for imperial sound quality. Mastered this week by The Bricoleur.

Cover shows Francis Bacon's Study After Velásquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), used with kind permission of Des Moines Art Center. Design by Paschalis Zervas, +wolframgrafik.

Thanks to David Hall and Vivek Venkatesh for their wonderful work on videos to accompany these two new songs, using footage from our concert at Labirinto della Masone, Italy, June 3rd. Also in order is a big shout out to Birk Nygaard, BN Visuals, for his general laser dementia and documenting this special occasion. Birk will join us on the road this November, and we hope to see some of you out there. Also with us, as usual, best FOH in the West, Chris Fullard.

A physical version is likely later. There's simply no time to prepare one right now, we have a tour to get ready for. But please keep an eye on the House of Mythology.

The Sic Transit Gloria Mundi EP is available from us on Bandcamp now. Spotify, iTunes, etc. in a few weeks or so, depending on industry bureaucracy. Please spread and share at will, we don’t have the patience to wait for the music machine hubbub. This is the age of the internet, innit?

— Bandcamp

Label: #House_Of_Mythology — HOM 012
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 15 Feb 2018

#Ulver, #Synth_pop

Throbbing Gristle — Funeral In Berlin

#Zensor — Zensor 01
Germany, 1981

#Industrial, #Throbbing_Gristle

Alva Noto — Unieqav

Carsten Nicolai concludes Alva Noto’s UNI-prefixed release cycle with UNIEQAV, the 3rd and most dancefloor-focussed instalment of the series. The follow-up to Unitxt [2008] and Univrs [2011] pairs pendulous minimal techno and electro rhythms with wide, sheer electronic drones in a way that strongly recalls recent Monolake output as well as Ilpo Väisänen in full swang. Comparisons aside, though, it’s unmistakably Alva Noto. // Pursuing the project’s roots in the dancefloor of Tokyo’s UNIT club to a satisfyingly logical endpoint, Nicolai rolls out 12 typically mercurial yet gripping sound designs defined by their fluid dynamics and seemingly fathomless dimensions intended to render the club or your head underwater, thanks to a still remarkable grasp of purified tonal minimalism/maximalism and studied sensitivity to proprioception. // The results are filigree yet robust, firmed up for deployment on the sickest sound system you can lay your hands on, but also highly pleasurable in a headphone or sofa-inclined context, keeping us rapt and twitching from the dubwise plong and looming pads of Uni Sub and the Robert Henke-esque pressure systems of Uni Mia. // The nervous skeleton of Uni Version flows into singular Alva Noto sounds in the jabbing pointillism of Uni Clip and the staggering scale of Uni Normal, with major highlights in the widescreen drama of Uni Blue, and footwork-like rapid movement join Uni Edit, while Anne-James Chaton’s vocal lend a sharp contrast in Uni Dna. — Boomkat Product Review

Label: Noton — N-045
Country: Germany
Released: 16 Mar 2018

#Experimental, #IDM, #Minimal, #Alva_Noto, #Raster_Noton

Coil — Winter Solstice: North

#Eskaton — Eskaton 19
UK
Jan 1999

#Abstract, #Experimental, #Coil, #Drew_McDowall, #John_Balance, #Peter_Christopherson, #William_Breeze

Aphex Twin — Drukqs

#Warp_Records — WARPCD92
UK
Oct 22, 2001

#IDM, #Drum_n_Bass, #Modern_Classical, #Electroacoustic, #Experimental, #Aphex_Twin, #AFX, #Richard_David_James

Raime — Quarter Turns Over A Living Line

#Blackest_Ever_Black — BLACKESTDL001
UK
Nov 19, 2012

#Downtempo, #Drone, #Raime

Various — Michelangelo Antonioni – Trilogy And Epilogue

#and_OAR — and/36
US
2010

#Abstract, #Drone, #Experimental, #Michelangelo_Antonioni

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation — Егор (Egor)

#Denovali_Records — DEN0125
Germany
Apr 1, 2012

#Drone, #Future_Jazz, #Experimental, #TMFDC, #The_Mount_Fuji_Doomjazz_Corporation, #Jason_Köhnen, #Live_Recording

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble — Here Be Dragons

#Ad_Noiseam — adn120
Germany
Oct 15, 2009

#Downtempo, #Dark_Jazz, #The_Kilimanjaro_Darkjazz_Ensemble