Ulver - Messe I.X - VI.X

NEW MID-PRICE EDITION OF ULVER'S 2013 ATMOSPHERIC, ELECTRONIC, CLASSICAL RECORDINGS WITH THE TROMSO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

The follow up to 2011�s acclaimed �Wars of the Roses�, �Messe I.X�VI.X� was a different entity; reverberating 2007�s somber & solemn �Shadows of the Sun�.

Composed and first performed live by Ulver, alongside the Troms� Chamber Orchestra on 21st September 2012, the music was commissioned by the Troms� Kulturhus (House of Culture) in Norway, in a cooperation with the Arctic Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra cultural institution. The band took the concert recordings back to Oslo and spent the Winter and Spring of 2013 in post-production, honing the material for its studio-equivalent. The album echoes the early electronic experiments of EP�s �Silence Teaches You How to Sing� and �Silencing the Singing� & is furthermore said to invoke the ghost of an abandoned Nattens madrigal renaissance-project.

Six compositions written and produced, recorded and mixed by Ulver, consisting of Ole Alexander Halstensg�rd, Kristoffer Rygg, J�rn H. Sv�ren and Tore Ylwizaker, with additional aid and advice from composer Martin Romberg who also arranged the music for the 21 members of Troms� Chamber Orchestra. The album also features the extraordinary talents of contemporary composers/musicians Ole-Henrik Moe and Kari R�nnekleiv.

The Norwegian masters have evolved over the past two decades to cross an astonishing body of disciplines, taking in ambient, avant-garde, electronic, psychedelic, prog and jazz influences. Digipack edition.