ULTRA ECZEMA
listen on bandcamp***"Depending on your definition of improvised music, you may want a refund for this record. It's pop, baby! As sweet as Schubert! Canadian Blake Hargreaves got deeply into classical music and specifically the church organ as a child. When he was 11, ...
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UE257 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"De Nor ('the can', or prison, in comic book Dutch) is an open-air venue/sculpture/pavillion at the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp. During its inaugural summer, Elko Blijweert played a live concert there that left an indelible mark on those lucky enough to witness it. ...
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UE303 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"On their third LP for Ultra Eczema, psychedelic blues gloomers Ignatz & De Stervende Honden have driven off the bendy sideroads and onto a straight, if not exactly narrow, path. And there's new sounds coming out of the stereo: The Les Rallizes Dénudés-type guitar ...
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UE304 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"Ogon Batto is an exercise in patience; indeed, a model of restraint in these trying times. Although a fixture of the Belgian underground for over a decade (as part of the Hare Akedod label and band, the latter with DSR Lines' David Edren), Bent Von Bent has released ...
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UE295 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"A 10" size catalog of Dennis Tyfus' exhibition 'Skins, Brains & Guts', which took place at Mieke Van Schaijk Gallery between November 2020 and January 2021.cIn this exhibition Tyfus showed an installation, consisting of hyperreal sculptures of skinheads that replaced ...
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UE302 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"The Norwegian wunderking of demented psychedelic song (de)structure is backwith a fantastic collection of soft madness. His Animalskt LP was played in the UE office until you could see through it. Gaute Granli is a one man band, taking a complete stranger with thirsty ...
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UE299 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ultra Eczema celebrated its twenty-third birthday at home, alone: without Macaulay Culkin and without the traditional bacchanal. De Nor - a sculpture-pavilion in the grounds of the Middelheim Museum conceived and designed by Dennis Tyfus ...
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UE300 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"A masterclass in linguistics and a repeat reminder of the trouble one can get into when carrying a name that is either too long, too short or too complicated for most tongues to twist around. The screen printed image on the flipside holds the key to this mystery. (And ...
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UE255 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"Pierre Elitair, Antwerp's loudest and oldest DJ, turned 60 in August. His own mix is unique: hilarity, intellectual elitism, biology, punk primitive, beer, and a schlager singer in the red. He deejayed at many a wedding party, the Tour de France, every discotheque ...
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UE290 | ULTRA ECZEMA
second pressing "Following two singles, two albums, and a bunch of compilation tracks, we are proud to present Miaux's third LP. Mia Prce, originally from Sarajevoand a Belgian resident since 1989,was reared on a psychedelic diet of Krautrockand similarly serpentine ...
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UE256 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"Around the turn of the century, a psychedelic fellow from Argentina - Miguel Sosa - swapped the grass for the rainy streets of Antwerp. Miguel lived in the long-standing Villa Delfia squat and played classical acoustic guitar pieces on the street to earn the necessary ...
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UE275 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"The connection with and love for Radio Centraal runs through Ultra Eczema's veins. The Antwerp-based station has functioned as a voice for myriad local underground movements for nearly forty years. From its inception, architect and ex-Situationist Rudi Renson and ...
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UE276 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"Frank Hurricane's legend is such that many have heard his name years before hearing his music. HurricaneFrank, if you will, is the kind of character that can spin an audience into a psychedelic vortex that will have you yelping HOLY PYMP BREW repeatedly asyou zigzag ...
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UE254 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"W. Ravenveer - Erwin Van Looveren - has been a friend for over 20 years. Erwin is a magnet and connoisseur of strange and obscure music, and prone to nervous sweating should you mention a band or weirdo he doesn't know. His early guitar gigs (as Schidzoid) are the ...
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UE253 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"The only thing Australia, Canada and Sweden have in common is taking in an abstract position in a vague situation! In July 2016 , a strong arctic wind blew open the windows that separate the mean streets of Stockholm from the city's legendary EMS Studios. Oren ...
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UE235 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"A visual report of sorts, collecting 64 full-color drawings from the past six months or so. These drawings were intended as working sketches for paintings, though the latter never materialised. Instead, you can ponder what might've been in the privacy of your own home. ...
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UE215 | ULTRA ECZEMA
special offer "After years and years of summer whine, begging and massages, Remörk has finally committed to an LP! Remörk is the name under which Kris Delacourt hides his synth madness, home-made instruments and secret jewels; not just some squirky synth bubbles: ...
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UE217 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"Ice dry poetry by Byron Coley in blue, garbled by Dennis Tyfus in purple. For years i've thought these poems were already written, as Byron told me about them when i visited the Yod Space in Florence some years back. I can perfectly remember hearing about Byron selling ...
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UE104 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"This fourth issue collects 20 pages, a bunch of mat inverted purple music paper and a bunch of raw green glossy messyness! the golden cover portraits are made by Mima Schwahn and the inside cover is tripple stamped and hand numbered! lay out by jef cuypers, offset ...
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UE128 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"George Toet Smits started out playing mouth organ and guitar in Ferre Grignard's band in the 1960's, he was also a vibrant part of the Ercola collective in Antwerp, where he co-published "Spruit", a comic/fanzine or "mannekesblad" full of psychedelic insanity, has ...
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UE89 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"you'll have to run thru a intense long brown tunnel before arriving at the best butcher in town! he'll cut your meat down to pure droned filet americain or preparé from the chef! bears and bowie lookalikes are huge fans, as this bird butcher sliced many famous animals ...
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UE86 | ULTRA ECZEMA
