UM020 Pick-Up (Frans de Waard/Martin Luiten) “Departure” CS
UM024 Raymond Dijkstra / Matthias Boss “Ins Kahle Zimmer Sinken Blaue Firne” 7″
Next releases
May 21st, 2013New vinyls !
October 29th, 2012New vinyls finally out ! Ready to ship October 31st:
[UM021] SMEGMA “Ever And Anon” LP
REMAKE/REPROGRAM
The mythical LAFMS collective Smegma really needs no introduction, where would we all be without them? How many bands were so ahead of their time (1973!), and have been for so long, like Smegma have? Well, here they are with a brand new LP of their famous mix of free jazz, industrial noise, improvisation, straight-up weird music so typical of these masters / US freaks. On the opening track, they are riding on the amazing drums of historical member Dennis Duck (of Dream Syndicate) to pay homage to their beloved Link Wray with some devilish surf music! Then get ready for some crazy reeds, Aylerian invocations, electro-acoustic meditations, (shrink) chamber music and moments of pure avantgarde, juxtapositions that only they can get away with: a riot in a farm, strange strings riding the waves, guitar riffs and slides with the seagulls, a bat party in a cave, followed by a hot bath of analog synth bubbles… but simply put, Smegma sounds like nobody else! Cover artwork collage by Ace Farren Ford. Also comes with an insert. Edition of 300 copies.
[UM022] GATE “Damned Revolutions” LP
TURNED AND GLOWING INWARDLY (excerpt)
Dead C guitarist Michael Morley is finally back with a new Gate LP, after two years, and what a comeback! “Damned Revolutions” has all the traits of Gate’s classic LPs like “Guitar” and “The Monolake”: it starts with dark and fuzzy guitar drones, that build up to create a dense wall of distorted resonance, at times accompanied by sparse electronics and sustained by spectral beats and bass pulses. When vocals break in, it’s magical and poetic, his moaning reminiscent of pre-war blues chants. Side B is a wonderful suite of free rock improvisation, wild noise, echoed vocals, a thick guitar fog, haunting nocturnal blues, cymbal crashes… a mood perfectly depicted on the cover photos, lonely, grey, apparently still, sunless port city landscape. Edition of 300 copies.
SOLD OUT
[UM023] BeNe GeSSeRiT “STiLL iNSaNe aFTeR aLL THeSe yeaRS” LP
CeLa FaiT LoNGTeMPS Que Je N’ai PLuS Vu D’aRC-eN-CieL
Eleven new & previously unreleased songs from BeNe GeSSeRiT, the cult Belgian minimal synth duo of Alain Neffe (various instruments including synth, beats, loops, strings…) and Nadine Bal (vocals). Alain started his Insane Music imprint back in 1981, he is a key figure of the European cassette culture and has been making some of the most creative and cross-boundary music since the early 80’s, also with other numerous projects like Pseudo Code, Human Flesh and more recently, his and Nadine’s duo with singer Anna Homler, The Chopstick Sisters. The duo’s debut LP in 1985 “A High, Happy, Perverse And Cynical Cry of Joy” was a real gem and on this new album, they go back to their roots but take advantage of newer technologies and sonic textures - every song has a life of its own. Alain’s arrangements are impeccable and unpredictable, a mad variety of instruments and moods, punchy beats, hypnotic strings, groovy organ, crazy sax lines and an inventive use of sound shaping… at some point you’ll be in the middle of… a choir of frogs??! Nadine, on the other hand, is a muse of this and the OTHER world, she manages to sound like an angel, a child, a siren and an alien, often all in the same track. Our prescription is: listen to this LP over and over for best results, you will discover and feel something new at every listen. BeNe GeSSeRiT make truly charming and personal music that’s hard to pin down: too weird to be classified as pop, but not so much to be just avantgarde, surreal & emotional, sharing the aesthetic choices of Anne Clark, Roberto Cacciapaglia, Laurie Anderson, Kraftwerk, Die Form… Glossy full color covers with insane artwork by Alain Neffe. Edition of only 300 copies, of which 50 are colored vinyl (25 orange / 25 pink).
New releases
August 30th, 2012
[UM019] Blood Stereo “The Eight Thumbed Hand Serenades“ CS
WATER IS, FIRE IS NOT (excerpt)
Underground’s finest couple formed by Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance are here to delight us with a massive mind-hammering tape, originally out in a uber-limited 4xCS boxset on their own Chocolate Monk label. A fair where Muezzin Nyoukis will twist & pull your brains, a choir of voices praying, gargling & ooing, discomfort and unclear clatter all over. At some point you will find yourself in a damp swamp, two sticky beings calling each other (the mutant cricket here is Karen), a little slice of private green goo. Ringy drones so soft you can lie on, crunchy fingers, broken connections, magnetic liquid, confused contacts, tractors and concrete mixers 10 miles away, softly screeching… it’s all here, every dye and every spice, what more can you ask?!
Pro-dubbed & imprinted PINK tapes with 3-panel double printed full color Jcards, artwork by Karen Constance. Edition of 100.
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[UM018] BOLIDE “Flaw Games“ CS
INDOCTRINATION BUFFET
Hailing from Brighton, Bolide is an electro-acoustic improvising sextet formed in 2007. Main members are Spiceberg (aka Daniel Spicer), Tom Roberts, The Sultan and other mysterious individuals. Imagine going to a huge locals-only market outside the Medina, the air is heavy and dusty, the smell is funky, it’s noon & you forgot your hat, you see another goat head being cut and you start to think: maybe I’ll ride a donkey back? Imagine you could record the sounds both inside & outside of you in that moment… that’s sort of what Bolide sounds like. Except now, you can avoid the stressful experience and still enchant your neighbour’s snakes by having it in a pro-dubbed & imprinted pea green tape, with a double-printed collage Jcard. Edition of 100.
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[UM015] SILVIA KASTEL - “Take It“ 7″
WHY THE NURSE SAID __
First ever 7″ on Ultramarine: triple Silvia on voice, mutant beats, synths, tape echo, working the early Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA and dub influences, delivering some much-needed anguish, agony, and paranoia against today’s fun-at-all-costs shit. 33 rpm but Greh Holger also likes it at 45, so it’s up to you. Mastered by Scott Colburn. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 100.
Ninni Morgia & Silvia Kastel June UK Tour
May 29th, 2012NINNI MORGIA & SILVIA KASTEL JUNE UK TOUR:
June 13th - Glasgow, 13th Note w. NOMA, Neil A. Simpson, Boom Edan - INFO
June 15th - Newcastle, The Morden Tower w. Alessandro Altavilla, Popular Radiation - INFO
June 16th - Tinderbox Festival, Cropredy, Oxfordshire w. Red Square, Temperatures, Bolide - INFO
June 17th - London, Cafe Oto w. Temperatures, Bolide - INFO
June 18th - Brighton, The Cowley Club w. Temperatures, Bolide - INFO
Ninni Morgia & Marcello Magliocchi
May 20th, 2012GIOVEDI 24 MAGGIO:
Ninni Morgia & Marcello Magliocchi
live @ Ekoine’, Via De Ferraris 49
Zona Carrassi
BARI