Romantisme Noir, Arts Sombres, Doom et Black Metal

Un extrait de "Shadows Of The Sun" pour le plaisir des oreilles.

Voici "All The Love".

We fear the things
We do not understand

The powers

Of good
And evil

Of the world

The past
The future

The promises

The folly
Of those who died

For nothing

Leaving their wives
And their children

For love

The only thing
That makes us human

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Ulver est crédité sur la BO du documentaire "Empire Me : New Worlds Are Happening !" dont la sortie est prévue en 2009. On retrouve dans le cast H. R. Giger, pour ceux qui ne le connaissent pas, c'est le papa d'Alien, rien que ça.

Un peu plus d'infos ici : IMDB

Un résumé du sujet par le réalisateur du documentaire, Paul Poet :

"Handmade utopias - a filmic search for the worldwide phenomenon of the micronation movement. Do-it-yourself states that have distanced themselves from the economic and political mainstreaming of globalization. A road movie covering land, water and the wildest realms of the imagination. Simultaneously creative documentary and pulsating cultural portrait, the film traces a new "unplugged" generation - their motives, their anxieties and their dreams. A film that shows how this generation realizes its escapist fantasies in new economic and political forms and how they collide with oppressive everyday realities."

Ca a l'air un peu barré, mais si vous avez vu le film "Svidd Neger", on peut dire que ça reste dans une certaine logique !!

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La chanson "Waltz of King Karl", qui est sur la BO de "Svidd Neger", illustrée par des clowns maléfiques. C'est là qu'on se rend compte que les clowns et le Black Metal ont quelque chose en commun, et c'est pas le nez rouge. Inquiétant...

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Communiqué sur le MySpace du groupe concernant la tournée d'Aethenor avec Garm :

Hello everyone,

Are you informed about the Æthenor?  Just in case no one told you, Ulver’s Mr. Rygg has recently contributed to this monster and will be helping to take their show out on the road in April.  Furthermore, their new album, "Betimes Black Cloudmasses", will be out via VHF that very same month.

I recently spoke with our man Kris about the upcoming Æthenor gigs.  Below I have included the most interesting of points. 

The skinny:

"Yeah, I am going on the road with the Æ-street band in April, for five gigs, but please tell people not to heckle me, cause then I’ll never play live again, haha. "

The experience:

"It’s more interesting to play live in this context rather than assimilating studio music, which I never got. But of course the set-up is a lot more volatile and fate and chance and that, so we’ll see. I’m in the backseat and will be working with my voice and a laptop, processing and triggering sounds real-time etc."

"It’s kind of abstract, chromatic jazz meets ambient. Not that high-pass filtered synth-arpeggiator shite though ... more acoustic and/or ’real’. Our ’presence’ is as important to the sound as the stuff emanating from Daniel’s Rhodes piano, Steve’s guitar pickups and my mic. It’s hard to describe really, but I feel that there’s a certain telepathic element at play. We recently had a couple wonderful rehearsals in London. The drummer we’ve got with us, Steve Noble, is beyond good man. He used to play with Derek Bailey and those boys so ... and David Tibet is joining on the final gig as well, so it should be quite good."

If you have not yet experienced Æthenor, you’re really in for a treat.  An accurate and just description of their wonderful music is not something I can easily come up with.  Such a message is better communicated when hearing it for yourself.  They have samples new and old available for your ears on their profile.  I urge each and every one of you to tune in and enjoy immensely.  the URL is http://www.myspace.com/aethenor 

Last, but not least, here’s the road schedule.  I hope most of you can make it.

Date : Wed 16th April ’08
Country/City/Venue : Switzerland / Geneva @ Theatre de l’Usine
Other acts: tba

Date : Thu 17th April ’08
Country/City/Venue : Switzerland / Martigny @ Les Caves Du Manoir
Other acts: Marc Ribot + Lucien Dubuis Trio

Date : Fri 18th April ’08
Country/City/Venue : France / Paris-Montreuil @ Instants Chavires
Other acts: Antoine Chessex

Date : Sat 19th April ’08
Country/City/Venue : Belgium / Hasselt @ Kunstencentrum Belgie
Other acts: Witch + Grails + Graveyard

Date : Sun 20th April ’08
Country/City/Venue : Netherlands / Tilburg @ Roadburn Festival
Other acts: Current 93 + Baby Dee etc

Of course, feel free to shoot me any questions.  I’ll answer whatever I can.

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Petite news de nos amis pour qui tout semble bien se passer :

"A Quick Fix of Accomplishment

Ulverines,

On 28.02.08, Ulver won the OSLO AWARDS for Album of the Year, alongside prizes for best book, film, restaurant etc.

This is good,  yes? "

Une récompense qui confirme ce qu'on savait déjà.

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