| | The music was commissioned last year by the Tromso 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 Tromso 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. [...more...]
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... But there will always be rapture. Consecration and crying. The father, the mother and ghosts. Shadows reverberates it feels like a companion piece and Silence's erratic electronique. Sample culture. War and vulture. [...] | | | |  | CD | |
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... Saint John of the Cross. By now, most of you know where we come from. The rest is silence. Composed and first performed by Ulver, on primarily electronic instruments, with the Tromso Chamber Orchestra September 21 [...] | | | |  | LPHQ | |
... Six compositions altogether written and produced, recorded and mixed by Ulver, this time consisting of Ole Alexander Halstensgard, Kristoffer Rygg, Jorn H. Svaren and Tore Ylwizaker, with additional aid and advice from composer Martin Romberg who also arranged the music for the 21 members of Tromso Chamber Orchestra. The [...] | | | |  | LP | |
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