10-25 August 2019 | Ultimae Summer Break
Time for a summer break… the office closed this Friday evening. We will ship orders received during our vacation on our return on August 26.
With our warmest regards,
The Ultimae team
Time for a summer break… the office closed this Friday evening. We will ship orders received during our vacation on our return on August 26.
With our warmest regards,
The Ultimae team
Eskostatic‘s Serpentines & Valleys album is receiving a fabulous welcome! As you may know, the double LP version will be released in September. Many of you asked for a pre-order and we are making it available as from today. Read More »
3 nights not to be missed organised by Downtempopaintings on the stunningly beautiful island of Corfu in Greece. Check out the program and get your tickets early. Read More »
Building on the echoes of landscape that guided his previous Room40 editions, Solastalgia imagines that which is not yet known.
It traces possible terminus points for futures that many of us will not live to see. Utilising a range of unexpected variables, automations and uncontrolled systems in the creation of the recordings, Irisarri has developed a new approach to his work, seamlessly weaving together intense layers of texture and saturated harmony.
Within these works, distant melodies emerge and in their wake the listeners’ focus shifts again and again. A never ending loop of the unconscious feeding into the conscious is formed. Whilst the skeletal form of pieces such as Coastal Trapped Disturbance might remain, the organic matter that is the body of the music is in a process of persistent transformation. These subconscious variations morph the pieces from within. This is a record of sublimation, and dwells in states of transition and becoming.
Recorded in two suites, each section is a distorted mirror reflection of the other. Solastalgia stands as a landmark undertaking for Irisarri, it encourages us to remain unsettled and attentive in the moment, and prompts us to listen deeper and imagine what lies beyond or in excess of our expectations.
M. Grig is a multi-instrumentalist who specializes in dobro, lap steel and pedal steel guitar living in Durham, North Carolina. Mount Carmel is his debut release on 12k, an album close to his heart. Read More »
The second release on Ara comes from Adiel. Following her latest Cavallina EP made in collaboration with Donato Dozzy, she returns with Musicofilia, her first record outside her own label. Read More »
Tresor Records is delighted to welcome Rod Modell to its catalogue, with the release of his new album Captagon. Read More »
Brendon Moeller is an artist that needs no introduction. Materialize is his first work for Vibrant Music. From his early days in various bands in the 80’s and 90’s, Brendon liked indie, shoegaze, ambient, moody, cinematic scapes. Read More »
We’re delighted to announce the release of ESKOSTATIC‘s first album Serpentines and Valleys. The Swedish and Dutch duo offers a magnificent ambient downtempo road-trip illustrated by Indian photographer Jayanta Roy. Read More »
WRWTFWW Records announce the reissue of one of the most fascinating Japanese ambient/environmental albums ever made, Nova + 4 by Yutaka Hirose. Read More »
ESKOSTATIC‘s “Serpentines & Valleys” album will be released on July 24, 2019, in the meantime here’s a little teaser…
Enjoy and share!
At nearly 50 minutes, this recording is like a snapshot of a work’s vital momentum, remaining faithful to the spirit of Chloé’s Endless Revisions while detaching itself in order to conquer new territories. Read More »
New collection of emotional sound poems from Albert Borkent, wishing this record to be like an invisible hand caressing the soul… Read More »
El Choop’s Render_series is a chain of minimalistic, stripped-back dub techno excursions. Each render takes a refined palette of ideas and reworks them repeatedly over time resulting in a stream of locked grooves embedded with microchanges, and seasoned with polyrhythmic patterns. Read More »
Jacob Long’s reductionist rhythmic ambient vessel, Earthen Sea, ebbs towards a more purely elemental state on his second excursion for Kranky, Grass and Trees. Read More »
In July and from September onwards we will be welcoming aspiring DJs for a first “out-of-bedroom” experience with our Open Decks Sessions every Friday from 4 to 7 pm. Read More »
Lena Andersson is a fictional character created by Berlin-based Japanese artist Kyoka and Irish producer Eomac. Both met in 2016 during a residency at the Stockholm EMS studios. Read More »
“I first met Asuna when we both gave a concert at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. Six years and five meetings later, we completed Signals Bulletin. The album includes both joint improvisations and compositions, recorded in Berlin, Kanazawa and Kyoto.” – Jan Jelinek, Berlin 2018 –
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Mannequin helmsman Alessandro Adriani returns with his highly anticipated full-length debut for SA, Morphic Dreams. Read More »
Tim Hecker returns with a companion piece to his recent Konoyo album. Read More »