Childhood's End (album)

Occupation

• Kristoffer Rygg
• Jørn H. Sværen
• Goals Ylwizaker
• Daniel O'Sullivan

Childhood's End ( Subtitle: Lost & Found From the Age of Aquarius ) is an album by the Norwegian band Ulver. It was released May 28, 2012 at Kscope and includes cover versions of rock songs of the late 1960s.

Creation and publication

Singer and composer Kristoffer Rygg came by its own account in his childhood by his parents with this music in touch. His continuing interest have inspired him to take this cover album.

The pieces were recorded in autumn 2008 and summer 2011 in the Oslo Crystal Canyon Studios. A number of guest musicians participated in the recording with: Sisi Sumbundu and Ingvild Langgård (vocals), Espen Jørgensen, Alexander Kloster- Jensen and Trond Mjøen (guitar), Lars Christian Folkvord and Mats Engen (bass ), Anders Møller (tambourine and shaker ) Thomas Pettersen and Lars Pedersen (drums). Anders Møller mixed the album from the recording studio, Jaime Gomez Arellano it mastered at London's Orgone Studios.

On the occasion of a performance of Ulver at Roadburn Festival in April 2012, six weeks was released the cover version of The Electric Prunes ' I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night at the Roadburn -EP before the album's release. ( A recording of the performance itself appeared a year later as Live at Roadburn -. Eulogy for the Late Sixties ) To cover version of The Beau Brummels ' Magic Hollow a promo video has been produced, in which Justin Oakey directed. For the title of the album artwork is a photograph of Hoang Van Danh was used, which shows the same scene as Nick UTS famous photograph from the Vietnam War.

Title and original artists

Style

Since Ulver Artwork on Childhood's End older rock songs, the electronic and experimental arrangements of previous albums, enter here in favor of a more conventional instrumentation with guitar, bass, drums and keyboards in the background. To the fore now elements come from different retro styles such as folk rock, garage rock, psychedelic rock, psychobilly or dreampop.

Reception

"The idea has charm, but the end result is worth looking into. [ ... ] The songs sound supple produced, but are relatively interchangeable. "

"Overall, and this is the greatest achievement of this work, Childhood's End ' sound very elaborate, disparate and yet how fancy of a piece. The pieces are all presented convincing and appealing and are neither pandering nor gimmicky, giving the sense of hearing is very much in. The only drawback that I can make out, are temporarily a little overexcited and indefinable sounds of some indefinable sound body between guitar and keyboard [ ... ]. "

" ULVER make it [ ... ], a fine balance between childlike light-heartedness, carefree and youthful adventures urge on the one hand, longing for these very well-known with the age, but irretrievable feelings on the other side to produce and thus perfect implementation of the album title. "

"Some already written to meetings, Childhood's End 'represent in the end the question of who need such a cover album, that it allows the originals almost untouched. My answer is: I and very many others, because - Cover or not - every song has a ULVER - soul and the empathic dealing with wonderful original pieces, the quality of the album possibly even increased. [ ... ] At the same time a personal touch dusting and modernize without damaging the core - by voice and gentle changes - Add: a monumental work order. ULVER have met him 100 percent - achieved their goal - at least for me. On the one hand them an excellent and extensive ( pop ) album has managed to make the other songs really want to browse by the originals on Youtoube etc. "