
This just landed on my digital desktop. A live performance by drone/synth rockers Emeralds from the 2010 Unsound Festival. I’ve never heard of them before, but I’m blown away… 35 minutes of epic greatness.

This just landed on my digital desktop. A live performance by drone/synth rockers Emeralds from the 2010 Unsound Festival. I’ve never heard of them before, but I’m blown away… 35 minutes of epic greatness.
F***ed up title, I know. But it’s actually my best attempt to describe what the Norwegian band Ulver is doing.
First a black metal band, then an electronica act, then noise/glitch geeks, then sound track composers and now a full blown music freak show. Avantgarde? You bet. And cool as hell (not a great metaphor, to be honest, but it fits). Ulver plays tomorrow night in Aarhus at Voxhall – and I’ll be there enjoying every minute.