UDUMBAL - 'Ahi Budhnya' CD (Unisound Records / Possession Productions)
The second album by this Black Ambient / Black Metal / Orchestral entity from Belarus, offering mysterious ambiance of Slavonic / Nature-oriented inspiration. For dark souls into black ritual art. Originally released on cassette by Possession Productions, this is the Greek-licensed CD version in jewelcase. Ltd x 1000 copies.
UK 5£
Europe 6£
World 7£
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ULTRA MILKMAIDS - '02/03/USA+' MCD (Multi National Disaster Records)
Second edition of the material recorded at various venues during Ultra Milkmaid’s USA tour in 2002 – the first edition being a 3” release. This edition has three extra tracks. Deep, reflective and somehow acoustic, this disc careens and flows into some bright, golden vacuum. An EP, but rich with unexplored sounds that make it prime for infinite play or continuous shuffle. Electronic / ambient music with atmospheres very much in the vein of Christian Fennesz. Ltd x 300 copies.
UK 5£
Europe 6£
World 7£
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ULTRA UNITED - 'Ultra Audience' CD (State Art)
Ultra United is an intense emotional journey into one man's psyche. An album for all and no one. "Ultra Audience" is a manifesto - perfect and inconsistent in master-like brilliance. The amalgamation of embers and ice - massive and enchanting, beyond any categorisation. Perfected with a beautiful 6-panel digipak and 16-page booklet. Intense and varied release of textured noise structures and dark ambient soundscapes.
UK 5£
Europe 6£
World 7£
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UMBRA / ILDFROST - 'Possum Play Falcon' CD (Fluttering Dragon)
Conceptual split of two great bands whose principle is Contrast. It is Umbra that welcomes us at the entering this realm of sound. It is almost two quarters of a real perversion, madness and unexpected tones strictly conformed to the idea of four aspects of a man's personality, before we finish that a nightmare-like journey. The night is over and day begins. We are enchanted by delicate and full of magic melody flowing from Ildfrost's den. Gorgeously produced digipak!
UK 11£
Europe 12£
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UN DEFI D'HONNEUR - 'Le Mort Homme' 12" (Neuropa)
Peter Savelkoul returns with A Challenge of Honour's French alias. "Le Mort Homme" is a masterpiece of elegant, brooding and bombastic Neoclassical music. With sweeping, nostalgic strings, martial percussion and orchestrations, this a compelling and majestic requiem. Presented in a beautifully designed, exquisite gatefold, this a true must-have! Ltd x 444 copies.
UK 11£
Europe 13£
World 15£
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UNICORN - 'Playing With Light' Enhanced CD (Housepig)
A field report from an outpost at the border where droning ambience, minimalist melody and pure noise share an uneasy truce. Unicorn (featuring long-time members of Bastard Noise and Sleestak) serves up seven tracks, where melodic lines skate across a surface of disturbing drones and scathing noise. Enhanced content includes three short films by Stephanie Miller, with soundtracks by Unicorn. Presented in a gorgeous letter-pressed sleeve by Thumbprint press.
Four trance-inducing, ritualistic Industrial / Ambient tracks by this Danish artist, known for his 2003 vinyl collaboration with Nurse With Wound. "Winter Songs" was originally composed for a show with the Rev. Steven Leyba Johnson (with cover art by Johnson). This is the darkest Unveiled release to date. Limited edition of 300 copies with a bonus VCD of the aforementioned ritual performance, entitled "Steven Johnson Leyba - Live In Copenhagen".
Uranium USSR 1972 is a sice-project of Angelo Bergamini (Kirlian Camera). A chapter apart in the history of ambient-trance music, able to evoke strange and sometimes nervous alien urban worlds. Intimately powerful and innovative, this long awaited UU72 ''opera prima'' is a successful combination of new electronic horizons and retro vintage machines, not paying any debt to any ''experimentalists'' in particular. Once again, Bergamini surprises us with a unique idea, giving life to a restless and rainy scenery made of extreme solitude, alienated rhythms and touching moments, all permeated by an unusual sense of black humour. With sumptuous artwork by Elena Alice Fossi (Kirlian Camera), 'Avarie' is presented in a 6-panel digipak with booklet.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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URE THRALL - 'Arabian Nightmares' CD (Tesco Organisation)
"Arabian Knightmares" is one man's effort to reflect the unfolding events of the current worldwide sectarian war in a series of harmonic constructs, utilising actual sounds from the major events of the struggle (9/11, the Iraq War, etc.) to provide a historic point of reference. The forlorn yet beautiful emotions that are unmistakable in Muslim song and prayer are reflected here in a context so unique that it is deeply stirring in a musical sense and simultaneously brutal with its emotional impact on the listener. Guest appearances from 23 Skidoo, Ferrara (Brain) Pan and The Fruitless Hand. Comes in a special die-cut card box folder with 8 postcards.
Ure Thrall (Asianova, ex-Voice Of Eye) is an American artist from Houston, Texas, who is long active in the more atmospheric, transcendental experimental US-scene. His first vinyl release contains two long tracks with an organic, filmic and sublime quality, using echo-flutes, bass, e-bowed guitar and restrained percussion underneath. The whole 7” is a personal statement about the politics of the USA after this tragic day, which is expressed also in the cover artwork and the liner notes. Second edition of 300 copies on red / black marbled vinyl with full-colour sleeve and an insert.
UK 6£
Europe 7£
World 8£
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URUK-HAI - 'The Battle' CD (Drama Company)
This is Austrian artist Uruk Hai's second album of heathen Neoclassical folk darkness. Fine Pagan/Ambient music, very much inspired by Nordic tales, mythology and fantasy backgrounds. Recommended to all the fanatics of Burzum latest period, the first Mortiis releases, Summoning and Vinterriket (with whom they recently collaborated).
UK 5£
Europe 6£
World 7£
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UTHANA-EISE - 'G.D.G.R.' CD (Halbwelt)
Uncompromising Industrial Noise, with disturbing electronics, distorted and criminal vocals from this German project. Some of the tracks are built on a rhythmic Power Noise basis, with a strong and clear structure and, rather surprisingly, with very few samples. Influences by such veterans as Con-Dom, Grey Wolves and Atrax Morgue - 'G.D.G.R.' is a must for all lovers of "no mercy" power-industrial-noise!
The second album by this Black Ambient / Black Metal / Orchestral entity from Belarus, offering mysterious ambiance of Slavonic / Nature-oriented inspiration. For dark souls into black ritual art. Originally released on cassette by Possession Productions, this is the Greek-licensed CD version in jewelcase. Ltd x 1000 copies.
