catalogue

ÜLFUR

WHITE MOUNTAIN (WESTERN VINYL)

ÜLFUR - WHITE MOUNTAIN 59115
format:
1 LP
release:
08.03.2013
label:
WESTERN VINYL
item ID:
59115
barcode:
0656605463810
Having played in various bands including SWORDS OF CHAOS and in JONSI's touring band, "White Mountain" is ULFUR HANSSON's debut under his own name.

With influences ranging from cult cinema, esoteric literature and contemporary music, ULFUR presents a unique twist on the supernatural.

In his own words: "Every track is a collage of field-recordings made while travelling.

I met so many interesting people on the road (for instance, Alexandra of Mountain Man who did amazing vocals for "So Very Strange") and I always carry my tape recorder with me like a camera.

The title is a homage to Rene Daumal's Mount Analogue, as well as Alejandro Jodorowski's film Holy Mountain, but also something else..Each individual sound has a very special memory attached to it, so the album creates these nostalgic nonexistent spaces, hidden places - an amalgamation of instances, situations that couldn't possibly exist.

I imagine this White Mountain, an invisible imaginary place - a sacred place on the horizon.

Maybe like a connection to the the universe above. An analogy of the journey of Man."
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. EVOKE EWOK
  • 1.2. SO VERY STRANGE
  • 1.3. BLACK SHORE
  • 1.4. HEAVEN IN A WILDFLOWER
  • 1.5. WHITE MOUNTAIN
  • 1.6. KNOLL OF JUNIPER
  • 1.7. MOLASSES