Here's a funky introduction to the two man band Duoya from Sweden. Butter is their debut release, a three tracks EP containing two songs from the upcoming album and one exclusive. As they are perfecting their debut full length album we thought to introduce the project to you with this super limited 7" vinyl to mark the day.

Duoya is the funky brainchild of Gustav Horneij and Dimitrios Karatzios. The two met through a shared obsession with jazz vinyls and later started jamming, eventually forming Organic Pulse Ensemble together. While the project in time would turn into Gustav's one man venture, their creative chemistry was still there when they decided to start sending recordings and song sketches back and forth during the spring of 2020. Which in turn was the beginning of a new musical journey.

Harboring the creativity of both artists, Dimitri being an illustrator as well as a musician and Gustav being a multi-instrumentalist and a song writer. When they get together only good things happen. Specially while jamming, they express themselves freely and come up with crazy groovy music that everyone loves to vibe on.

In expectation for the amazing upcoming album that is in the works, Butter turned out to be the perfect appetizer to get in the mood and discover this brand new project with the complicity of Urban Waves Records.


All music written and recorded by Duoya
Artwork by Dimitrios Karatzios
Mastering by sterilOne at STAUB engineering
Manufactured, distributed and published by Urban Waves

Pace Yaself

Brittas Bounce by Jonas Kullhammar

Jonas Kullhammar & The New Kids On The Rock
Jonas Kullhammar - Braithophone
Johan Graden - Piano
Vilhelm Bromander - Bass
Konrad Agnas - Drums

Recorded at Studio Moserobie 29/4 2015

Brittas Bounce rough mix with Jonas Kullhammar & The New Kids On The Rock

Onesemble

Song of spring

Matthew Baugh #5 (14/04/19)

From Oiro Pena 10'' (Ultra-023, 2019) limited edition of 200, silkscreened sleeves. Released on 7th of June, 2019. 
Buy vinyl ---> ultraaanirecords@gmail.com
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On Working Alone

The first person to create something one may classify as instrumental music was probably alone. The mind tingles when imagining the prehistoric moment when, for the very first time, a member of what then was the human race grabbed something and used it to make a purposeless series of sounds. Even if some of his fellow beings had been present at the time, would they have understood anything of it? Would they have taken interest in it and stopped to listen, or would they have demanded something easier to dance to?

The leap from vocalizing or clapping to a form of expression produced with instruments may have taken a long time, perhaps even a thousand years. The same goes for the fabrication of such instruments. Human communities were small, and influences spread slowly. We do know, however, that the first discovered instruments date back to 43,000 years ago and took the form of flutes made from the bones of mammoths and birds. Researchers believe they played a role in religion and in entertainment – in this sense, very little has changed. The wildest theories claim that music was one of the factors that gave us, the Homo sapiens, a competitive edge over the Neanderthal: music helped foster deeper cooperation between individuals. 

In any case, however, the ones who decided to hollow out that bone and find out what kind of sound you could get out of it were individuals, and this brings us back to our theme of working alone. The modern solo musician enjoys a much greater sense of liberty than our distant forefathers. Multi-track and recording technology freed us from our physical constraints and allowed us to imagine ourselves as a multiplicity. Everyone could, in the comfort of his home, be his own one-man band without having to strap an array of instruments onto his body like carnival musicians or Rahsaan Roland Kirk used to.

This is the frame from which A. E. Vauhkonen and Oiro Pena spring from. Vauhkonen´s hands simultaneously summon up brass, flutes, keyboards, drums, stringed instruments and all sorts of percussion. The sound is firm and slightly cosmic, like early Sun Ra Arkestra at its heartiest. But that’s enough about the music, listen for yourself. 

-Markus Karlqvist

Nimeton

Oiro Pena - Nimeton

Oiro Pena 10'' 2nd pressing released as a collaboration between  Ultraääni and Joteskii Groteskii Records on 18.11.2019.

Limited edition of 200 numbered copies.
Silkscreened sleeves on recycled cardboard.

order your copy: ultraaanirecords@gmail.com

''Wow, where did this come from?? Raw and essential outsider jazz,  
which will be whispered about for years to come.''  
- Matti Nives / We Jazz

Oiro Pena - Pritzch

Here's a teaser from Daniel Bingert's amazing album Berit in space, which will be released on LP and CD on friday the 13th of march, 2020 (13/3 2020)!

Daniel Bingert – Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Producer

Per Texas Johansson - Tenor sax

Karl Olandersson - Trumpet

Jonas Kullhammar - Alto sax

Charlie Malmberg - Piano

Moussa Fadera - Drums

Torbjörn Zetterberg – Bass

Daniel Bingert has been a big name on the swedish music scene since the 90’s, working in all kinds of situations, but is mainly known on the jazzscene for his work with Hector & Daniel Bingerts Latin Lover Big Band and the free punk fusion group Jari Haapalainen Trio (JH3). This is his debut as a leader of an acoustic ensemble, and he has put together this group including the cream of the crop of the swedish jazz scene.

Recorded in the same room at the legendary Atlantis studio during one day, capturing a vibe that is both new and classic at the same time! Enjoy the music of Daniel Bingert!

www.moserobie.com

Daniel Bingert - Berit In Space (album teaser)

one-person-band from sweden

new album out now
https://urbanwavesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-comes-black