Send and Return is the result of a live session recorded on board a Thames sailing barge on the Blackwater estuary in Essex on the east coast of England. The album is a continuation of Blackwaterside, a project influenced by and in celebration of the Blackwater.
Ultramarine were joined for the session by Greg Heath (soprano sax & alto flute) and Ric Elsworth (vibraphone & percussion).
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Photos: Ian Cooper
Send and Return is available via Bandcamp and in record stores (distributed by Kudos).
Ultramarine were joined for the session by Greg Heath (soprano sax & alto flute) and Ric Elsworth (vibraphone & percussion).
Photos: Ian Cooper
Send and Return is available via Bandcamp and in record stores (distributed by Kudos).
Ultramarine & Anna Domino meet again for a reworking of their collaborative track $10 Heel.
The song originally appeared on the Ultramarine album Signals Into Space (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2019). $10 Rework replaces the urgent, jittery rhythm of the original with a straighter House backbone and then proceeds to disassemble the structure with a pair of freestyle, hands-on-the-desk, on-the-fly dub mixes.
Anna Domino's stream-of-consciousness lyrics tell the impressionistic tale of post-club after-hours chaos in Times Square, NYC circa 1979. Anna raps off studio equipment brand names like passing neon signs glimpsed in a blur through a taxi cab window.
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Anna Domino, 1979
Sleeve artwork by Neasden Control Centre.
$10 Rework is available via Bandcamp and in record stores (distributed by Word And Sound).
The song originally appeared on the Ultramarine album Signals Into Space (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2019). $10 Rework replaces the urgent, jittery rhythm of the original with a straighter House backbone and then proceeds to disassemble the structure with a pair of freestyle, hands-on-the-desk, on-the-fly dub mixes.
Anna Domino's stream-of-consciousness lyrics tell the impressionistic tale of post-club after-hours chaos in Times Square, NYC circa 1979. Anna raps off studio equipment brand names like passing neon signs glimpsed in a blur through a taxi cab window.
Anna Domino, 1979Sleeve artwork by Neasden Control Centre.
$10 Rework is available via Bandcamp and in record stores (distributed by Word And Sound).
Folk (30th anniversary edition)
LP/download
Foam On A Wave, released 13th November 2020
Purchase here via Bandcamp
Ultramarine’s debut album Folk, recorded in Brussels in 1989 and released by Les Disques du Crépuscule in 1990, has been remastered and lovingly reissued by Foam On A Wave.
Decades ahead of its time... a classic that deserves to be rediscovered.
Electronic Sound magazine
Original sleeve artwork by Benoît Hennebert.
Folk is available via Bandcamp.
Meditations is two long-form ambient pieces performed with a reduced palette of kalimba, treated guitar, wavetable & analogue synths and hardware effects.
Conceived as a companion to Ultramarine’s seventh album Signals Into Space (2019), Meditations was originally released by Les Disques du Crépuscule as a limited edition CD; later reissued on vinyl by Real Soon. It was recorded with Andy Ramsay (Stereolab) and mastered by Jason Goz (Transition Mastering).
Artwork by Heretic/Spectral Nation.
Meditations is available via Bandcamp or in record stores (distributed by Honest Jon’s Records).
Conceived as a companion to Ultramarine’s seventh album Signals Into Space (2019), Meditations was originally released by Les Disques du Crépuscule as a limited edition CD; later reissued on vinyl by Real Soon. It was recorded with Andy Ramsay (Stereolab) and mastered by Jason Goz (Transition Mastering).
Artwork by Heretic/Spectral Nation.
Meditations is available via Bandcamp or in record stores (distributed by Honest Jon’s Records).
Signals Into Space2xLP/CD/download
Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2019
Purchase here via Bandcamp
Photo: Emily Bowling
Signals Into Space is Ultramarine’s seventh album and sees a return to their original record label Les Disques du Crépuscule.
The new record features four songs written in collaboration with American singer-songwriter Anna Domino, a huge favourite of the band since her avant pop releases on Crépuscule in the 1980s.
Also guesting are saxophonist Iain Ballamy (ECM, Bill Bruford’s Earthworks, Loose Tubes) and percussionist & vibraphone player Ric Elsworth. The album was recorded & mixed in London with Andy Ramsay (Stereolab) and mastered by Noel Summerville.
Design & artwork by Heretic/Spectral Nation.
Signals Into Space is available via Bandcamp.
The new record features four songs written in collaboration with American singer-songwriter Anna Domino, a huge favourite of the band since her avant pop releases on Crépuscule in the 1980s.
Also guesting are saxophonist Iain Ballamy (ECM, Bill Bruford’s Earthworks, Loose Tubes) and percussionist & vibraphone player Ric Elsworth. The album was recorded & mixed in London with Andy Ramsay (Stereolab) and mastered by Noel Summerville.
Design & artwork by Heretic/Spectral Nation.
Signals Into Space is available via Bandcamp.