Al comienzo del blog ya mencioné a este grupo (http://viviendoapesardelacrisis.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/fotos-de-la-ciudad-de-noche.html) pero se merece una entrada específica ya que es otro de los grandes grupos que conozco con una trayectoria y evolución impresionantes (como éllos mismos dicen, wolves evolve):
http://www.jester-records.com/ulver/
Nota: Les suenan el grupo y logo? Efectivamente:
http://viviendoapesardelacrisis.blogspot.com.es/2013/09/camisetas-customizadas-bajo-pedido.html
Ok, y una muestra de lo que hacen a través de su discografía:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Ulver/
Vargnatt (1993)...
Rehearsal (1993)
Mysticum / Ulver (1994)
Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler (1995)
Kveldssanger (1996)
Nattens madrigal - aatte hymne til ulven i manden (1997)
The Trilogie - Three Journeyes through the Norwegian Netherworlde (1997)
Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1998)
Metamorphosis (1999)
Perdition City (2000)
Silence Teaches You How to Sing (2001)
Silencing the Singing (2001)
Teachings in Silence (2002)
Lyckantropen Themes (2002)
1993-2003: 1st Decade in the Machines (2003)
A Quick Fix of Melancholy (2003)
Svidd neger (2003)
Blood Inside (2005)
Shadows of the Sun (2007)
February MMX (2011)
Wars of the Roses (2011)
The Norwegian National Opera (2012)
Roadburn EP (2012)
Childhood's End (2012)
Oddities and Rarities #1 (2012)
Live at Roadburn (2013)
Messe I.X - VI.X (2013)
-Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler (1995):
-Kveldssanger (1996):
-Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne til Ulven i Manden (1997):
-Perdition City (2000):
-Shadows of the Sun (2007):
-Wars of the Roses (2011):
-Childhood's End (2012):
-Messe I.X - VI.X (2013):
...
P.D: Tiene cojones! Me acabo de enterar de que sacaron nuevo disco ((2013) Ulver - Messe I.X - VI.X) en Agosto!
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Ulver/Messe_I.X_-_VI.X/381948
Disfruten!
Actualización a 20/11/2014: Vaya, INCLUSO YO me estoy pensando en comprarme ésto:
http://www.cmdistro.de/Item/Ulver_-_Trolsk_Sortmetall_1993_-_1997_-Ltd-_5CD_Box_set-/2119
Trolsk Sortmetall 1993 – 1997 (Ltd. 5CD Box set)
Artist: Ulver
Format: CD - Boxset
Label: Century Media Records
Release Date: 17.11.2014
49,99 €
incl. 19,00% VAT excl. shipping costs
The black metal years of ULVER now completely remasterd and compiled on a vast 5CD box set and limited vinyl box set. It includes the first three studio albums (“Bergtatt”, “Kveldssanger” and “Nattens Madrigal”), the legendary „Vargnatt“ demo plus a previously unreleased 4-track rehearsal from the „Nattens Madrigal“ era. The latter is included on a separate cassette in the vinyl box set.
The box set includes a 104-page booklet (32 page booklet with the same content accompanies the vinyl box set) filled to the brim with unpublished photos, comments by the band, liner notes by Jon ‘Metalion’ Kristiansen (Head Not Found Records and the man behind Slayer Mag), Michael Moynihan (author of “Lords Of Chaos”), Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor Press) as well as the original Norwegian lyrics and their English translations
Actualización a 01/12/2014: Vaya, parece que se ha agotado!
De todas formas, me lo acabo de bajar en Mp3@320 y sigo a la búsqueda de los escaneos del libreto ya que es lo que más me interesaba. Algo voy encontrando:
http://www.metal-archives.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=107172
Actualización a 31/03/2020: Enormes:
https://viviendoapesardelacrisis.blogspot.com/2014/01/now-playing.html
https://ulver.bandcamp.com
Actualización a 28/08/2020: Ok:
Flowers of Evil
by Ulver
1.One Last Dance 05:43
2.Russian Doll 03:55
3.Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers 03:54
4.Hour of the Wolf 04:26
5.Apocalypse 1993 04:32
6.Little Boy 05:23
7.Nostalgia 05:20
8.A Thousand Cuts 04:41
In the midst of the forest, the floor is littered with monstrous heads and mythical figures, frozen in torturous combat or threatened by wild beasts. A dragon fights a dog and a wolf. A lion sinks its teeth into the fire-breathing monster’s chest.
This sacred grove, near Bomarzo in Lazio, Italy, reveals the nightmare vision of Vicino Orsini, a sixteenth century nobleman. It’s a forest of symbols, suggesting a civilisation overrun by the beasts, demons and monsters of the primordial world. Soon after Orsini’s death, trees began to close in on these many peculiar beings, and green moss would eventually seize them. Slowly, nature finished what he had started.
Flowers of Evil, the new studio album from Ulver, finds the wolf pack exploring the fear and wonder of mankind’s fall from redemption. Visions similar to those of Orsini come to mind, as untamed life abounds:
THEY SPREAD
TWIST AND TURN
IN THE KILLING FIELDS
The threads of haunted places and images entwine. Have Ulver discovered new pastures under the sun? Or scoured the ruins of their own moonlit past? The truth is, they’re closer to their previous purlieu than perhaps ever before.
“Doom dance”, someone dubbed their last studio album, the critically acclaimed, Impala Award-winning The Assassination of Julius Caesar (2017). Flowers of Evil comes across as an unfeigned progression along the course set by that album, revealing a band moving deeper into beats and grooves, hooks and choruses, synths and guitars, yet sounding more stripped back, making room for the distinctive detail. Once again Michael Rendall (The Orb) and legendary producer Martin “Youth” Glover have taken crystalline care of the mix.
As Caesar demonstrated, Ulver haven’t abandoned any of their obsessions, worries or nightmares as they enter the gilded palace of pop. “One last dance / in this burning church”, Kristoffer Rygg announces on the album’s opening track, featuring old friend Christian Fennesz on guitar and electronics. It sees them locked inside their Hall of Mirrors. A slow build brings the music to the album’s pulsing theme:
WE ARE WOLVES
UNDER THE MOON
THIS IS OUR SONG
WE HAVE LOVED
AND WE HAVE LOST
WE ARE READY TO GO
With Flowers of Evil Ulver have fled a burning Rome, only to confront further crime and corruption. ‘Russian Doll’, the album’s first single, moves determinedly through the night, with a story of unfolding tragedy and misery. ‘Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers’ brings fiery end-time imagery – “barrels are burning / great art will be destroyed” – with a disco beat and flashy ’80s synths. Dismal cries resound on ‘Hour of the Wolf’; echoing Bergman’s classic film, the song is dedicated to the hour between night and dawn, “when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most real”. ‘Apocalypse 1993’ reveals Ulver at their catchiest, its bounding-goat groove running hand in hand with a grand chorus depicting the catastrophic events at Waco, Texas, during the winter of that year – the very same winter that saw the birth of Ulver’s first incarnation. From that thorny undergrowth, this is what they have become: an eclectic, many-headed beast, chanting the ecstasies of the spirit and the senses.
Flowers of Evil unfolds with the shattering second single, ‘Little Boy’. A mysterious beat moves the track towards its thunderous climax, and here Michael J. York’s ominous pipes melt into the softer, moodier ‘Nostalgia’, a ’70s soul shuffle, and the heart-breaking Talk Talk-esque balladry of ‘A Thousand Cuts’. Finally, the wolves are back in the palace of excess, waltzing the night away. Yet around them, the wilderness rises, triumphant; “grass will grow over your cities”, as the Bible says.
– Tore Engelsen Espedal
credits
released August 28, 2020
Escuchando.
Actualización a 08/09/2020: Y llegó:
Leyendo.
Actualización a 10/09/2020: A buen ritmo. Cositas:
Y de cuando tocaron en el Brutal Assault del 2009:
Actualización a 14/09/2020: Más:
Actualización a 15/09/2020: Preparando música para una representación de MacBeth en teatro?!?
Actualización a 23/02/2021: Bien:
Actualización a 19/04/2021: Vaya!
Actualización a 02/06/2021: Otro disco:
Ulver - Hexahedron (Live At Henie Onstad Kunstsenter) (HOM 027)
Ulver - Hexahedron (Live At Henie Onstad Kunstsenter)
Hexahedron documents the second of the two dazzling, sold-out Ulver shows in the legendary Studio at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter at Høvikodden back in April 2018. A special commission and “an honourable undertaking”, as Tore Ylwizaker put it in their career-spanning book Wolves Evolve – The Ulver Story, published last year. “To orientate our music into an art setting is appealing to me”, he said. “Doing whatever we want, not knowing what it’s supposed to become or where it will end up.”
During the shows at Henie Onstad the band found themselves trapped in a multidimensional “hypercube” in the middle of the asymmetric space. Inside it they experimented with all-new ideas in an installation as galactic as the music presented was unmistakably ulverish. Around them, the audience moved unhindered among hallucinatory lights and laser-guided melodies, losing themselves in interstellar clouds of gas, dust and broken junk of exploded stars. I suppose we were all sidereal messengers, cruising through the groovy galaxies.
Three years have passed, and finally it’s here. One continuous session of sixty minutes broken into five parts. Professionally multi-tracked in the gallery, a first go at the mix was done simultaneously with Drone Activity, early 2019. They left it for Flowers of Evil, for which the seeds had already been sown. You’ll notice. Then The Ulver Story was brought to a conclusion, with huge plans for their final dance. But as we all know, the pandemic put a spanner in the works.
Come 2021, and Anders Møller and Kristoffer Rygg decided to restart the Solid State Logic console in Subsonic Society. A total recall made the job less gruelling than expected, they report, and in a fortnight the mixes were in stellar shape, ready to be mastered by Vegard Sleipnes via the same society’s good old Studer tape machine and collection of high-end outboard gear.
The result is spectacular, spaced out, and “astral black… with hints of Supertramp and Sun Ra”, as the band jestingly told someone on a social medium. But most of all Hexahedron is expansive, transportive and luminous. A moment of flight captured for posterity. A dancing star.
Or as curator Lars Mørch Finborud states in the album’s liner notes: “a definite highlight in Henie Onstad Kunstsenter’s music and performance history.”
Tore Engelsen Espedal, April 2021
Nota de prensa:
https://houseofmythology.com/storage/press-releases/201/Ulver-Hexahedron-PR.pdf
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