Live at Roadburn - Eulogy for the Late Sixties
| Live at Roadburn - Eulogy for the Late Sixties | ||||
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| Live album from Ulver | ||||
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April 12th, 2013 |
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April 12, 2012 |
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| Label (s) | Roadburn Records | |||
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CD, LP, download |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
52:01 |
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Live at Roadburn - Eulogy for the Late Sixties is a live album by the Norwegian band Ulver . It was released on April 12, 2013 on Roadburn Records.
Creation and publication
Ulver recorded covers of rock songs from the late 1960s in Oslo in the fall of 2008 and summer of 2011 , which were to appear on the album Childhood's End in May 2012 . In April of that year Ulver were invited to the Tilburg Roadburn Festival to present their interpretation of psychedelic rock live. Exactly a year later a recording was published. It was mixed by Anders Møller at Crystal Canyon Studios in Oslo and mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano at Orgone Studios in London.
Track list
- Bracelets of Fingers - 4:49
- In the Past - 3:03
- Can You Travel in the Dark Alone? - 5:00
- Soon There'll Be Thunder - 2:27
- Today - 3:50
- Velvet Sunsets - 4:04
- Street Song - 5:57
- 66-5-4-3-2-1 - 3:48
- I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) - 3:27
- Magic Hollow - 5:17
- Impromptu Performance (Dedicated to Can) - 11:19
reception
"I was placing a lot of faith in Ulver [...], but ultimately I was to be disappointed. They were playing [a] set of 60s psyche covers - Chocolate Watch Band, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Electric Prunes etc - and while the band themselves had a pretty good stab at recreating the sounds of the time, the alchemical tools to make it something special seemed just out of frontman Kristoffer Rygg's reach. Ulver's restless reinvention is rarely less than compelling, so it was unusual to see their ambitions outstrip their ability. "
"There were no glacial reworkings and relatively little electronica, just a band cranking out versions of obscure sixties tunes that they clearly dig very much. [...] Ulver were not the dark, mysterious shadowy figures of old, but a bunch of musicians having a good time in front of a crowd who clearly were not willing to accept them as such [...]. In fact the only real criticism I have is that they really shouldn't have bothered with their slightly tedious, unfocussed freak-out-style 'jam' encore [...]. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jamie Thomson: LIVE REPORT: Roadburn Festival 2012 , thequietus.com , accessed April 27, 2013.
- ^ Paul Robertson: Roadburn 2012 Day 1 Review , thesleepingshaman.com , accessed April 27, 2013.