Spurv "Myra"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Instrumental Post Rock
Label: Fysisk Format
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date:  June 1, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. et løfte i fall - 00:43
2. og ny skog bæres frem - 03:59
3. fra dypet under stenen - 08:26
4. hviler bekkenes sang - 04:29
5. et blekt lys lyder - 05:28
6. fra myrtempelet - 03:55
7. den gamles stemme brister - 09:13
8. allting får sin ende, også natten - 10:15

Total Time 46:28

Line-up: 
Gustav Jorgen Pedersen - guitar
Hans-Jakob Jeremiassen - bass
Herman Otterlei - guitar
Simon Ljung - drums
Eirik Orevik Aadland - guitar
   With
Ole-Henrik Moe - picoletto, violin, viola, cello
Kari Rønnekleiv - violin
Cathy Donnelly - cello
Tore Ylvisaker (Ulver) - synth
Ole Aleksander Halstensgård (Ulver) - fx and synth

Description/Reviews: 

The tracks seem to blur into one another as the album progresses and soon enough a swell of shimmering guitar begins to flow from the speakers, surfing over an oddly complicated rhythm. You have to listen hard as there are extra beats subtly injected into the slowly surging rhythm; the bass is succulent and has a really sweet tone that joins perfectly with the guitar array. Together they work to produce this swollen, wind-borne sound, a restlessness that sees the song ebb and flow, rarely staying in one place, constantly searching out another peak.

Read the full review by Mr Olivetti at freq.org.uk

Also read the review by  Buster Hymen at zappertalkstoplanets.blogspot.com

Media/Samples 
Bandcamp

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Ulver "ATGCLVLSSCAP"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Electronica,  Krautrock, Progressive Rock
Label: House Of Mythology
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: January 22, 2016
Tracklist: 

1.     England’s Hidden
2.     Glammer Hammer
3.     Moody Stix
4.     Cromagnosis
5.     The Spirits That Lend Strength Are Invisible
6.     Om Hanumate Namah
7.     Desert/Dawn
8.     D-Day Drone
9.     Gold Beach
10.     Nowhere (Sweet Sixteen)
11.     Ecclesiastes (A Vernal Catnap)
12.     Solaris

Line-up: 
Kristoffer Rygg
Jørn H. Sværen
Tore Ylwizaker
Daniel O'Sullivan

Description/Reviews: 

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 Düül 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. (Jimmy Martin)

Media/Samples 
Cromagnosis (Excerpt)
Moody Stix (Excerpt) 
4 Promo videos 

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Ulver "Messe I.X-VI.X"

Country: Norway
Sub Genre: Electronica, Classical, Psychedelic
Label: Neuropa Records, Jester Records, Kscope
Release date: August 1, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. As Syrians Pour in, Lebanon Grapples with Ghosts of a Bloody Past (11:50)
2. Shri Schneider (5:34)
3. Glamour Box (Ostinati) (6:10)
4. Son of Man (8:23)
5. Noche Oscura del Alma (5:2

Line-up: 
- Kristoffer Rygg / vocals
- Tomas Pettersen / drums
- Tore Ylwizaker / keyboards, electronics, programming
- Ole Aleksander Halstensgård / electronics

Tromsø Chamber Orchestra
- Snorre Holmgren / 1st violin
- Yuko Kawami / 1st violin
- Aelita Osadchuk / 1st violin
- Brynjar Lien Schulerud / 1st violin
- Kristina Nygaard Walsnes / 1st violin
- Berit Fonnes / 2nd violin
- Eira Foss / 2nd violin
- Sari Martinussen / 2nd violin
- Anders Melhus / 2nd violin
- Katrina Brown / viola
- Mari Giske / viola
- Sigrid Lien Schulerud / viola
- Mario Machlik / cello
- Ørnulf Lillebjerka / cello
- Inga Raab / cello
- Stein Paulsen / double bass
- Arne Bjørhei / trumpet
- Ingrid Eliassen / trumpet
- Torbjørn Ingvaldsen / trombone
- Jens Christian Kloster / trombone
- Martin Romberg / grand piano

Description/Reviews: 

Music commissioned for Tromsø Kulturhus in cooperation with the Arctic Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra. Composed and first performed by Ulver, on primarily electronic instruments, with the Tromsø Chamber Orchestra September 21 2012.  

"Much of this was recorded live, yet it is not a live album. We've spent long hours in the studio translating what happened that night.
We are at peace for now. It is more quiet than normal. More modern than medieval. But there will always be rapture. Consecration and crying. The father, the mother ... and ghosts. Shadows reverberates – it feels like a companion piece – and Silence's erratic electronique. Sample culture. War and vulture. People hurt. In spite we love. Our children. We fear their future.
Remember Górecki's No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. It has haunted us for years, and probably always will. The Gustavs Mahler and Holst. Sound collages from When or Nurse With Wound. 70's kraut and synth. Ash Ra and Autobahn. 80's pop scores. John Carpenter and Tin Drum. Terry Riley, again and again and again. Saint John of the Cross."

Media/Samples 
Teaser

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