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Ego​:​Echo

by Ulan Bator

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Hemisphere 08:42
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Santa Lucia 06:14
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Etoile Astre 04:32
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Let Go Ego! 16:10
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Hiver 03:57
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Selva 01:40
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La Joueuse de Tambour 06:34
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Soeur Violence 06:25
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Echo 10:06
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!!! ULAN BATOR "EGO:ECHO" (march 20, 2021)
Ltd edition gatefold orange 2XLP | Standard gatefold black 2XLP
Remastered and reissued for the first time on 2XLP by Improved Sequence
Gatefold 2XLP, 500 copies. Limited edition of 100 on orange vinyl

PREORDER: improvedsequence.bandcamp.com/album/ego-echo-imp027

"One summer, in the midst of a debilitating heat-wave, Ulan Bator and I (complete strangers to each other at the time) locked ourselves up in a tiny recording studio in a village just north of Florence, Italy, for 18 hours a day for three weeks. We got to know each other pretty quickly! Of course I'd heard demos of the material that eventually became the songs on this recording, and I'd heard (and been a fan of) their earlier records, but as we started to work it became obvious to everyone that we had to be open to anything, to be willing to start from scratch in some cases - just throw everything out the window and make something happen right now if we were going to rise to the potential of the moment. So, much (though certainly not all) of this music was written and/or (re)arranged on the spot, as we worked, under increasingly intense pressure. Adrenaline, stress, heat, chaos, and panic, combined with the language barrier (they're French, the engineer was Italian), forced us into places we never expected to end up in, which to me, was incredibly elating. In some cases the basis for the song started with just a groove, or an electronic sound, or a vocal idea, or an accidental noise, and was eventually wrestled into the final version you'll hear on this CD (though other songs are re-arranged versions of material they'd previously worked out). To watch them play, cramped up in the miniscule (about 8' x 12', as I recall) recording booth - bass, drums, guitar and amps included - strangling the groove out of their instruments with completely uncynical and unselfconscious commitment (and this from unrepentant, intellectual "art rockers" - a breed I usually find to be pretty anemic, at best, and merely clever, or "hip", at worst), was a joy I'll never forget. Their musicality and their dedication to making something powerful and clear out of whatever raw materials were at their disposal at the time (sometimes a grand piano, for instance, or other times a piece of looped digital feedback), coupled with their immense knowledge and enthusiasm for the music they love that's gone before them - from the Beatles and Beach Boys to New York No Wave to Krautrock to experimental electronic music - combined to make this, I think, a great "experimental rock" record - or whatever genre you want to call it. To me personally, it's one of the most rewarding records in which I've ever been involved, and it's an honor to be able to release it on Young God Records. I think if you listen to it with even a fraction of the pure enthusiasm of its intent, you'll find much to enjoy here. As for the lyrics being sung in French: Tough luck, they are French.

Michael Gira - 2001

younggodrecords.com/pages/ulan-bator

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released January 20, 2000

Produced by Michael gira
Recorded & mixed at Emme Studio (Calenzano, IT), 08.2-25, 1999
Mastered by Chris Griffin in Atlanta, USA

Amaury Cambuzat - Vocals,guitar...
Olivier Manchion - Bass, back vox...
Matteo Dainese - Drums...

Special guests:
Michael Gira (Swans) - Background Vocals
Jean-Hervé Peron (faUSt) - French Horn

Originally released on CD by
- Young God Records YG12
- Sonica factory ‎– 8 49077 2 / Virgin ‎– 7243 8 49077 2 3
- Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier C-DSA 54071

SACEM (c) 2000, Ulan Bator - Manchion/Cambuzat

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This is an official place where to buy ULAN BATOR 1993-2002 music, from one of the two founder members, coproducers and cocomposers. Please also visit ulanbatorband.bandcamp.com, runs by Amaury Cambuzat, the other one, to discover more Ulan album releases, not featuring myself, from 2003 until nowdays.

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Olivier Manchion Paris, France

Ulan Bator founder member and long time faUSt collaborator, currently into Permanent fatal error. Born in Paris, 1971 / More with Damo Suzuki's Network, French Doctors, Heldon, Simone Pellegrini, Andrea Bernabini, Xabier Iriondo... Art director of italian collective "Arzân!". I now live in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Hope you enjoy my/our music. Thanks for your visit. OM ... more

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