Starofash 2013

StarOfAsh

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caravaggio

Ambient, electronic, experimental etc

For more info on The Norwegian National Opera, go to: http://bit.ly/voTfAv
Order 2LP: http://bit.ly/13DTnVF
CD Digibook: http://bit.ly/11hBpoX
Blu-Ray & DVD: http://bit.ly/uvxB0w

Watch Ulver videos: http://bit.ly/11bmVdm
For more info on Ulver go to: http://bit.ly/1f3RPcb

Stunning concert from the dark music legends – Now available on double vinyl, a CD & DVD set, and a Blu-Ray.

Ulver returned in 2012 with their latest album Childhood's End. Early pioneers of Norwegian black metal, the band have continually evolved throughout their career and now stand as living legends of the dark music industry, blending rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions along with noise and experimental music to create ground-breaking material.

Until recently however the band had remained exclusively within the studio. This changed in May 2009 when the band accepted an invitation to appear at the Norwegian Festival Of Literature. The success of this gig lead to them embarking on a string of other gigs in 2009 and 2010, selling out prestigious venues such as the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Volksbühne in Berlin and La Cigale in Paris before they returned to their homeland for this landmark gig at The Norwegian Opera House.

The 2 hour concert married tracks from throughout the band's catalogue to stunning visuals to create a spectacle fitting for such a grand venue.

 
Ulver
Tracklist:
The Moon Piece
Eos
Let the Children Go
Little Blue Bird
Rock Massif
For the Love of God
In the Red
Operator
Funebre
Excerpts of Silence
A Memorable Fancy
Hallways of Always
England
A Cold Kiss
Like Music
Not Saved
The Leg Cutting Piece

ORDER THE DOUBLE VINYL SET https://www.burningshed.com/store/kscope/product/455/4636/

Kscope Store

Ulver - Eos (live) (from The Norwegian National Opera)

Draum

Ulver - Not Saved (live) (from The Norwegian National Opera)

For more info on Messe I.X - IV.X go to: http://bit.ly/1e2WIG6
Order the Vinyl edition with a poster: http://bit.ly/Jayts3
or the CD Sleevepac: http://bit.ly/1d6x65T

Watch Ulver videos: http://bit.ly/11bmVdm
www.kscopemusic..com

The album is available now on double LP, download and as 2 disc (CD & DVD-AV) digibook set, which also features a 5.1 surround mix of the album. https://www.burningshed.com/store/kscope/product/272/4989/

http://www.kscopemusic.com/ulver/

ULVER - 'Messe I.X - IV.X'
Kscope are pleased to announce the new album from Ulver

The music was commissioned last year by the Tromsø Kulturhus (House of Culture) in Norway, in a cooperation with the Arctic Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra cultural institution. It was composed and first performed live by Ulver, alongside the Tromsø Chamber Orchestra on September 21 2012. The band then took the recordings back to Oslo and spent winter and spring in post-production, honing the material for its studio-equivalent.

The follow up to 2011’s acclaimed Wars of the Roses, Messe I.X–VI.X is a different entity; reverberating 2007’s somber and solemn Shadows of the Sun, with the band even going as far as to say it feels like a companion piece to it. The album also echoes the early electronic experiments of EPs Silence Teaches You How to Sing and Silencing the Singing, and is furthermore said to invoke the ghost of an abandoned Nattens madrigal renaissance-project.

Six compositions altogether written and produced, recorded and mixed by Ulver, this time consisting of Ole Alexander Halstensgård, Kristoffer Rygg, Jørn H. Sværen and Tore Ylwizaker, with additional aid and advice from composer Martin Romberg who also arranged the music for the 21 members of Tromsø Chamber Orchestra. The album also features the extraordinary talents of contemporary composers/musicians Ole-Henrik Moe and Kari Rønnekleiv.

The Norwegian masters have evolved over the past two decades to cross an astonishing body of disciplines, taking in ambient, avant-garde, electronic, psychedelic, prog and jazz influences. Now it is their electronic, atmospheric and classical sensibilities which come to the fore. 

In a short message to their fans – subtly alluding to the darkness of history – the band named some of their influences for Messe I.X–VI.X:
«Gorecki’s No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. It 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.»
Ulver summer 2013

TRACKLIST:
As Syrians Pour In, Lebanon Grapples With Ghosts of a Bloody Past
Shri Schneider
Glamour Box (ostinati)
Son Of Man
Noche Oscura Del Alma
Mother Of Mercy

The album is available now on double LP, download and as 2 disc (CD & DVD-AV) digibook set, which also features a 5.1 surround mix of the album. https://www.burningshed.com/store/kscope/product/272/4989/

http://www.kscopemusic.com/ulver/

Ulver - Son of Man (from 'Messe I.X - IV.X)

Summer Goes Autumn

Ghouleh

Translucent

Isøde

The Frost

Rearranged theme from first Somnam demo "When Breathing Ends" (2006).

Somnam - Breathing Ends (2015 Edit)

Early pioneers of Norwegian black metal, ULVER have continually evolved throughout their career and now stand as living legends of the dark music industry, blending rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions along with noise and experimental music to create groundbreaking material.

Last year they released the critically acclaimed War Of The Roses album which was described by Zero Tolerance as ‘a quite beautiful record of startlingly powerful depth’. They return in April with Childhood’s End, a collection of classic psychedelic tracks recorded by the band in late 2011.

The album includes Ulver’s unique versions of tracks from The 13th Floor Elevators, Electric Prunes, Jefferson Airplane, The Pretty Things and more.

Release Date 28th May 2012

Chapters:
Bracelets Of Fingers (The Pretty Things)
Lament Of The Astral Cowboy (Curt Boettcher)
Can You Travel In The Dark Alone? (Gandalf)
Soon There Will Be Thunder (Common People)
Today (Jefferson Airplane)
Street Song (13th Floor Elevators)
66-5-4-3-2-1 (Troggs)
I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night (Electric Prunes)
I Can See The Light (Les Fleur De Lys)
The Trap (Bonniwell’s Music Machine)
Everybody’s Been Burned (Byrds)
Dark Is The Bark (Left Banke)
Living In The Past (Chocolate Watchband)
Velvet Sunsets (Music Emporium)
Magic Hollow (Beau Brummels)
Where Is Yesterday (United States Of America)

For more info, go to: www.kscopemusic.com/ulver

Kscope - Volume 3

Magic Hollow

Ulver - Magic Hollow (from Childhood's End)

These 5 songs were originally included as part of a special 3 disc hardback book edition of Insurgentes released on my own label Headphone Dust a few months prior to KScope issuing the standard version. I had around 25 songs in total from the recording sessions, several of which were dropped because they didn't measure up (some of the other leftover pieces are now released on the Insurgentes film DVD), but I felt these 5 songs were as good as the album material, so it wasn't for lack of quality that I left them off, more to do with context and not wanting the album to be too long as a listening experience.  Instead they were included on a separate CD only available with the special edition (and later on vinyl releases).  The whole idea of the special edition was to experiment with doing something really special with the packaging that took advantage of the multi-media aspect of the project (film, photos, music), and to sell only online.  They were very expensive to make and could only be printed as a one-off edition, so I had to guess at how many to make - even then I became so convinced that I wasn't going to be able to sell them that I priced is such that I basically lost money with every copy sold.  Later on I found myself wondering if the small minority that still complained that they had been "ripped off" in only getting a CD, a CD EP, a DVD, and a ten by ten 128 page clothbound full colour book for their £34 were the same people that later sold their copy on eBay for 10 times what they paid for it.  Anyway, I digress....  Here for those that missed out on the special edition, are the bonus Insurgentes songs in full resolution WAVs, enjoy! Best, S

Port Rubicon

Puncture Wound

These 5 songs were originally included as part of a special 3 disc hardback book edition of Insurgentes released on my own label Headphone Dust a few months prior to KScope issuing the standard version. I had around 25 songs in total from the recording sessions, several of which were dropped because they didn't measure up (some of the other leftover pieces are now released on the Insurgentes film DVD), but I felt these 5 songs were as good as the album material, so it wasn't for lack of quality that I left them off, more to do with context and not wanting the album to be too long as a listening experience.  Instead they were included on a separate CD only available with the special edition (and later on vinyl releases).  The whole idea of the special edition was to experiment with doing something really special with the packaging that took advantage of the multi-media aspect of the project (film, photos, music), and to sell only online.  They were very expensive to make and could only be printed as a one-off edition, so I had to guess at how many to make - even then I became so convinced that I wasn't going to be able to sell them, that I priced is such that I basically lost money with every copy sold! Later on I found myself wondering if the small minority that still complained that they had been "ripped off" in only getting a CD, a CD EP, a DVD, and a ten by ten 128 page clothbound full colour book for their £34 were the same people that later sold their copy on eBay for 10 times what they paid for it.  Anyway, I digress....  Here for those that missed out on the special edition, are the bonus Insurgentes songs in full resolution WAVs, enjoy! Best, S


Insurgentes Mexico

The 78

An extended 6 minute version that was previously released as part of the "Blackfield" digital download single, but I think only in mp3 form (as usual this is full resolution WAV). Blackfield's third album is due for release in March, and there is now a facebook page dedicated to the band at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blackfield/103704446366593

Walk With Me

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