Messe Ulver

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.

"Childhood's End" sees Ulver re-interpret classic Psychedelic tracks from the late 1960s. The album includes Ulver's unique versions of tracks from The 13th Floor Elevators, Electric Prunes, Jefferson Airplane, The Pretty Things and more. The Sunshine era gets the "dark music" treatment!

The band issued a short statement on the three new studio songs: “The sad remains from the 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, around the time we first started talking about making some ‘pop’ music. This EP was finalized in our new studio in the old town of Oslo in September, and sent o to Youth’s in London in October, for imperial sound quality. Ulver, The Colony Room, November 11 2017.”

Peaceville Records are set to release a newly remastered edition of Ulver’s paradigm-shifting fourth studio opus – Themes From William Blake’s The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell. This new edition will be presented on double gatefold coloured vinyl (red & white) and as a 2 CD set both formats include a retrospective look at the album courtesy of writer Jeff Wagner, on 23 July 2021.

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.

The Assassination Of Julius Cesar arrives on 7th April via House Of Mythology. The album has been produced by Ulver and mixed by legendary producer Martin ‘Youth’ Glover with Michael Rendall.

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.

The complete organ Masses of the Grand master of French Baroque, Francois Couperin. Couperin was a keyboard virtuoso, both on the harpsichord and organ; he wrote these Masses as principal organist of the St. Gervais Church in Paris. The ornamental French style of Couperin is blended with Italian influences with the emphasis on fluent melodic lines and daring chromaticisms in harmony. New recording, by international prize winning organist Adriano Falcioni (who already recorded the organ works of Cesar Franck, BC 94349) and the female vocal group Armoniosoincanto.