ULTRA ECZEMA
"No Future turned out to be fairly spot on, though Honey Bane's girl on the run was just found back, over 40 years later as the singer of a futurist punk trio called Brorlab. Their gigs are everything the future should hold: pants down, only 10 minutes long, psychedelic ...
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UE294 | 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
"First first-length release in eight years by the leading lady of sadtronics, psychedelic harmonies and blurred-out therapy tunes! The glass is never half empty and it's overflowing right now. Eva Van Deuren scrubbed away her past with a neon pink sponge to create a ...
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UE298 | 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
"A 90-minute survey of the majority of artists, musicians, and the odd comedian that performed at open air venue/sculpture De Nor this summer. It includes previously unreleased recordings by Al Fresco, Annelies Monsere, Astor, Battle-ax & Sofie, Brorlab, Chris ...
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UE277 | 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
"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
"For his first solo exhibition at Pinkie Bowtie, which ran between 15 April and 7 May this year, Dennis Tyfus has gone back to basics. Using the age-old tradition of the self-portrait, he draws a pathetic yet whimsical tale of daily life and the mundane annoyances that ...
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UE239 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"when the hotel is empty before the fire alarm goes off, one could question the staff - or the band that emptied it. cannibal like their icecream dark; one of their members makes gg allin look petite when visiting the restaurant, mixing it up with the restroom. this ...
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UE219 | 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
"A live recording, made during the 'Ultra Eczema's Strafstudie' night at Vooruit in Ghent / Belgium, one of the most beautiful ballrooms in Flanders.Swimming in a turbulent blender, in "4 parts" spread over 2 sides obviously. It is sometimes hard to hear who's doing ...
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UE199 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"Black nail polish, bending down to get in (any house with a normal door), loving 3 pop singers in order to be able to listen to only experimental love for dinner, sharing a fine glass and an even finer bottle, and oozing a sensitivity to about anything half decent or ...
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UE177 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"both DT and JC have been sending eachother garbage and leftovers since a few years, sometimes almost nothing, probably out of pity, often to make eachother smile or as an act of friendship. Sharing the last spoon of cold soup on a cold winter night, when the heater ...
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UE160 | 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
"the 12th issue in a series of monthly magazines collecting activities and changes in general, this issue contains portraits made with selfportraits by Ralf Wehowsky, Jeff Hartford, Natalie Wynants, Wilfried Huet, Daniel Renders, Jo Bryssinck, Rudi Renson, Angela ...
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UE153 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"MSS MEESTERD issue 11 was thrown together while working on a mountain of collages which are shown at "I want your name and my name on a flyer", a group exhibtion with Peter Fengler, Dennis Tyfus, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Vaast Colson, Joris Van De Moortel and Kim ...
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UE152 | ULTRA ECZEMA
"This issue was made in vienna in the beginning of august, made in between, after, and before swimming, train rides, visits to exhibtions by Burroughs, daniel spoerri, breathing in fresh air, garlic soup, wine etc.. i like vienna, not only for all above mentioned, also ...
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UE129 | 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
