Ulver Europa: February MMXIV Part I

Half way through the "improv" tour. Lost in moments.

Helsinki - First show, so a bit ropey. Sorry we didn't summon the vortex this time. Thanks to Eeka for the marvelous microbrewery selection. Snow kingdom outside, burning indie disco inside.

Gdansk - Still seeking the mojo. Playing below zero didn't help. The jolly green giant came stomping in to save us from ourselves.

Berlin - The first jaunt into ecstasis. Always love staying in the Michelberger. Ganesha presiding.

Prague - Heroin set, post Berlin-bliss. Good vibes nonetheless. First good nights sleep. Sleep is very important.

Zurich - Really finding form. Felt great. Hoping for even finer form tonight in Vienna.

 

Jigokudani

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Oslo. Constant snow. Muted skies in the daytime. Soft powdery magic kingdom at night. Zoetropic dances with wolves.

Stezaker

Some of my favourites.

HAPPY YOU NEAR!

Thanks for a big year, big ears. OM SUPREME MMXIV!

FACT (hearts) GLYNNAESTRA

#24 in their best of 2013 chart.

NUMERO UNO

MAXIMUM LOVE AND RESPECT TO THE QUIETUS.

Terrestrials

Sunn O))) & Ulver presents Terrestrials. Featuring SOMA, Greg Anderson, Kristoffer Rygg, Tore Ylvisaker and yours truly. Out February MMXIV.

Veena Power

Saraswati plays the Veena. Chittibabu played the Veena.

Free Miracles

Free exclusive tracks, downloadable. Jettisoned from Mercury, destined to float in webspace.

Dawn Lake

At the risk of saturating the world with new music, here's one from the forthcoming Mothlite EP.
 

Mercury in orbit

Miracle i-D Mix

Pleasant dreams.

Mercury Rising

Brains

New design for nothing in particular.

Miracle return

Coming out on Planet Mu in October.

A Day In The Life

Never so much as today, in all my road, have I felt so peaceful.

 

New Grumbling Fur Visuals

A video featuring teleporting Furgasms, a hydrogen bomb named Ivy and the number ∞ (repeat ad infinitum for maximum results). Directed by our dear friend, British fine artist and Turner Prize nominee Mark Titchner.

An "unofficial" video featuring Indonesian monkey chants, high priest Mola Ram (from Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom) and moving mandalas. Directed by American artist, architect and awesome dude Michael Lewis. He's so awesome we asked him to make a video for a track from the forthcoming Miracle album so keep those third eyes peeled.

The Crown

Apply moon tan cream
For quick pliability
Ambitions are built
Dissolve the centre
Your body must be near
To be aware that your organs have changed
Obviously
Life experience
The mirror
Incarnate
Nothing silly or stupid
Accept what is without avoidance
Perpetual elder
Shone out
The boy never changed countenance

Demonic Workshoppe: Oslo Improv(ed)

Máthair there

Artwork for the forthcoming Mothlite EP, 'Máthair'. It'll be out on Kscope this year, haven't figured out a release date yet.

There are five songs.

Dawn Lake
Mother Spider
Sokopina
Hintergedanke
Seeing In The Dark (Grumbling Fur RMX)

The Ballad Of Roy Batty

Video by Adam B Daniels.

Protogenesis

I saw you take eight steps across the floor.

Rastafarian Aubergine

Sensational butterfly
Now it's your turn to meet with world renowned protection
The red emergency
Online
Making you dry whatever the day brings
Which members rated zone penalty the science of healthy release
The safe and easy way to join your father's fight
Disrupted by drama rather than experiencing risk
Let's feel safer

Through our feedback
Form will make improvements to what you think
If you fail to show on demand
Rastafarian Aubergine here to sort out disruption
Wood, metal, paper and plastics
Knights of old how may I save you half price data
Hot nuts
Unisex enterprises
Number 9

Grumbling Fur

Fur Church

Order here.

Feeling good

A song from GLYNNAESTRA. Out July 22nd!

Fur moon over Whitestone pond

Fur vs Charlemagne at Cafe Oto

I'm curating a Charlemagne Palestine residency at Cafe Oto. Charlemagne played at my installment of Transmissions Festival in Ravenna and enchanted all. So the good work continues! Day one (June 14th) will open with a unique collaboration between Steve Noble and The Bohman Brothers and will conclude with a solo performance by Charlemagne. Day two (June 15th) will open with a rare appearance from L'ocelle Mare (Thomas Bonvalet formerly of Cheval De Frise) and the finale will be the debut performance of a new collaboration between Charlemagne and Grumbling Fur. Hope you can make it! But tickets here.

Join the facebook event page here.

Fur Power!

We, Grumbling Fur, are releasing our second full length album 'Glynnaestra' through Thrill Jockey records on July 22nd. Here's the bumph...
  
Daniel O’Sullivan of Ulver and Guapo and Alexander Tucker (Imbogodom) have announced that they'll be joining forces again as Grumbling Fur for a new album of psychedelic sonic explorations, Glynnaestra. The duo "have crafted an avant-pop album assembled as one would a collage," reads the text accompanying the album's release. "This structural foundation is built up via an eclectic array of instruments, both acoustic and modified, to pulsating electronic sounds. ... As their history attests, this is a group unbound from the restrictions of traditionalism and unafraid to shed the pretence of pure abstraction. There's a tradition of subterranean Englishness at play, harking back to This Heat's Deceit and Eno's Another Green World. In their first fully realised album as a duo, the process and texture ripple with a kind of electro-gnosis. Glynnaestra herself (an archaic goddess divined by Tucker and O'Sullivan) presides over the record, transcendent and sphinx like: an apt muse for an album of such lovely and powerful music." 

We're also featured in Serena Korda's film 'The Transmitters' currently showing at Camden Arts Centre as part of her new solo show 'Aping The Beast'. More details here. We're performing live third eye soundtracks to coincide with three ritual dance pieces around a 15ft green latex dinosaur puppet.

Some dates for your diaries...

27.03.13 - Camden Arts Centre, London
17.04.13 - Camden Arts Centre, London
27.04.13 - St. Pauls Church, Birmingham w/ Barn Owl and Ex Easter Island Head
04.05.13 - Camden Arts Centre, London
08.06.13 - The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool

We'll be playing some European dates in September which will be announced shortly.