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
Actualización a 21/08/2024: Mierda.
https://www.jester-records.com/ulver/ulver.html
It is with black holes in our hearts we have to inform you that our brother for over nearly thirty years, Tore Ylvisaker (Ylwizaker), is dead. He passed on in the night of 16 August, his 54th birthday. It is all too much to take in at the moment. We will return as soon as we have collected ourselves. Rest in peace, dearest friend. We love you, forever.
ULVER, Oslo, 19 August 2024
Actualización a 26/08/2024: Suicidio?
IN MEMORIAM TORE YLVISAKER (1970–2024)
Where to even begin? Our friend for the better part of our adult lives is gone. He chose to leave life on what would be his 54th birthday, 16 August. It is excruciating.
Rewind: We – Kris and Jørn – met Tore in 1997, Endless Sound Studio, 3rd floor, Grønlandsleiret 14. Immediate bonds were formed, and Ulver began metamorphosing into the bastard it has become. First with the Blake album, a process that took well over a year, with Tore and Kris living in the studio, literally, and growing ever closer. Then came Perdition City, soundtracks and silence. When Endless ended, we moved up to Tore’s apartment on the 5th floor. Blood, sweat and tears.
After Shadows – a eulogy in itself – we headed from Grønlandsleiret to Crystal Canyon, 2nd floor, Gøteborggata 27B, and the band became bigger. Different. A collective, as many call it. This was, in retrospect, maybe a sign that we had been churning down the rabbit hole for so long, a decade in the machines, we needed some air and new impulses. We started to play live, we travelled, we had lots of fun under the sun. We also had some problems around this time, but we got through.
Since Canyon the constellation has been more mercurial, involving more people, all stars in their own right: Ole Alexander Halstensgård, Anders Møller, Tomas Pettersen, Daniel O’Sullivan, Ivar Thormodsæter, Stian Westerhus, Chris Fullard, Kristin Bøyesen and countless others. It has felt like one big family, and now one of its elders is gone.
Tore was always there, either with the vacuum cleaner or some vintage synth, patching or programming things. The wizard, the caretaker. He cared so much for the processes and mechanics of it all, and his technical expertise was and is unsurpassed, both studio and stage. He was a pro, and we are so glad to have been around him when he was in his element, happy and sparkly. Full of zest, and with this big grin that could make anyone feel like you were his best buddy, just like that.
So many have been touched – blessed – by Tore’s presence, his enthusiasm and knowledge. In more recent years also through GOBS, Gamle Oslo Backline Service, which he established around the time we assassinated Caesar. Polishing drum skins, rigging up and down hardware, driving around Oslo with gear and equipment to various venues or festivals. Self-sacrificing, down-to-earth, a man of the people!
Easy to love. One of a kind. And endlessly kind.
But there have been hard times too, of course. Differences. Wear and tear. Friction. Sadly – and it makes this hurt even more, and may come as a surprise to many – we did not have much contact these last few years. We only bring this up because, well, people be complicated, and bands even more so.
In the end we are human, all too human. Marked by age and ennui, family and duty, love and loss. Where did the good times go? Ouch, my back! Where are my glasses?
It is not easy.
Autumn falls.
We were relieved when we heard Tore had moved up north, to spend time with and take care of his old folks, and to find space and focus on making music again, music that would be “just him”. This is something he had talked about for years, and we thought – perhaps naively – that maybe this was exactly what he needed at this point. We always figured we would find together again, like we have before, and, with time, become those old morons sitting on the porch of the retirement home, sipping sherry and pretending it’s a tour bus.
Oh, how we will remember our insane jargon, the parties, the places, the people. The shared life, as brothers in arms. Just thinking about all the weird shit we’ve been through together, through thick and thin, for 25 years as close friends, companions and co-conspirators.
We will remember Tore as the gentle, genuine, generous and, eh, “weird motherfucker” he was – we all agree on this terminology, and probably he would as well. The feelz that could only come from our very own mad professor, his unique approach to chords, scales, his inherent musicality – fingerspitzgefühl – which has defined too many of our songs and releases to mention.
Let it be said and heard: Ulver would never be what it is without him. Everyone knows this, and feels it deeply. We loved him. Love him.
It is painful to think of our brother now, his last days. Lord knows what was going through his mind. Tore leaving us like this is a crushing reminder that all good things come to an end. Sometimes sooner, more sudden than we are ready for.
That death is part of this life.
We all know this. But it is hard to accept. We will never see our friend again. It’s totally absurd.
It hurts.
Thank you so much, all of you who have written, reached out, sent flowers and shared your memories with us these last days. We are moved and grateful. It is testament to how much Tore has meant, mattered.
As many have already said: he will live forever in the music.
We are glad to be in touch with Tore’s family, all of whom are the warmest and most wonderful people. Solid wood, as we say up here north. Our deepest sympathies go to them. They have told us that there exists some music from Tore’s final days, Hemingway-style in an old house up in Elsfjorden. We will look into this in due time, in cooperation with them and his love of over a decade, Ingrid dearest.
As for the rest of us, we have been together this last week, reminiscing and comforting each other, and we believe that the only sane response at this time is to carry on. We have no choice. We have to keep living, howling, holding on to the things that give our lives purpose. Music. Even without Tore.
Now and forever a big black hole in our hearts.
Farewell, dearest brother. You are legend. We miss you deeply.
Ulver, Oslo, 26 August 2024
Photo: Ingrid Aas
Actualización a 13/12/2024: Nuevo disco (2024) Ulver - Liminal Animals:
https://ulver.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-animals
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