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"...a ghostly wail, ebbing and flowing to eerie effect."
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"Cutting-edge"
-Self-titled

"Gorgeous"
-The Quietus

NYC-based Icelander Úlfur invites a high-grade list of collaborators to reimagine pieces from his 2017 full-length Arborescence for a brand new remix EP released though Shahzad Ismaily-owned figureight records.

Featuring Alex Somers, Kara-Lis Coverdale and Oren Ambarchi, these new reworkings of Úlfur’s album grow and morph the source material into new limbs for Arborescence’s already many-boughed tree. Alex Somers (partner and collaborator of Sigur Rós’ Jónsi and a respected composer / producer in his own right) contributes a drifting, building unifying mesh of angelic choral foundations and vast, distorted sound-structures. Canada’s hugely reputable sound-artist Kara-Lis Coverdale re-voices string recordings from ‘Serpentine’ into beatless alien communication that sings in shimmering call-and-response. Avant-garde mainstay Oren Ambarchi (a peer of Sunn0))), Merzbow, Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke etc. etc.) takes the bassline of album track ‘Tómið Titrar’ as a starting point for his hazy, dusty journey through a dusklight of sonic and textual roadmarkings.

A unique talent, Úlfur (Luxembourg-born, Iceland-raised, NYC-residing Úlfur Hansson) is known as much for his genre-defying experiments with homemade instruments and electronics as he is for his work with prominent Icelandic trailblazers Jónsi (of Sigur Rós) and Ólöf Arnalds, and Sweden’s Anna Von Hauswolff. As a composer - a graduate of Mills College, California - Úlfur in 2013 received the prestigious Young Composer of the Year award from the International Rostrum of Composers, and has had works commissioned by The Icelandic Symphonic Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet and l’Orchestre de Radio France.

Arborescence, his brave and immersive 2017 LP, navigates a trail between these many worlds. Its pieces are longform and dreamily (un-)structured, made up of soundscapes, electro-acoustic processing, vocals, synthesizers, electronic production, all framed by intricate, cinematic string arrangements (performed by label-mate and múm co-founder Gyda Valtysdottir) and cataclysmic explosions of noise (provided in part by the transcendent and superlative drumming of black metal hero Greg Fox). The record alternately traverses moments of stillness and vulnerability and moments of violence, covering all the ground between as it travels.

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released July 20, 2018

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Úlfur New York, New York

Úlfur is known as much for his genre-defying experiments with homemade instruments and electronics as he is for his work with Jónsi and Anna Von Hauswolff. As a composer - a graduate of Mills College, California - Úlfur in 2013 received the prestigious Young Composer of the Year award from the International Rostrum of Composers, and has had works commissioned by f.ex. the Kronos Quartet. ... more

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