Perdition City
Occupation
- Christopher G. Rygg aka Trickster G.
- Goals Ylwizaker
Perdition City - Music to an Interior film is the fifth studio album by the Norwegian band Ulver. It appeared in 2000 at Jester Records and was distributed by Voices of Wonder.
Creation and publication
Perdition City has already been announced on the back cover of the 1999 EP Metamorphosis. Ulver, since the core consisting only of Rygg and Ylwizaker, the album took on with the financial support of the Norwegian Ministry of Culture. As a musician, Håvard Jørgensen ( guitar), Øystein Moe (bass ), Rolf Erik Nyström (saxophone ), Bård G. Eithun, Ivar H. Johansen and Kåre J. Pedersen were (both drums) involved. Ylwizaker mixed the album in Beep Jam Studio, Audun Strype mastered it. To the Metamorphosis - piece Limbo Central a music video was produced; it was included on the regular and the limited ( extended booklet ) CD edition of Perdition City. The album also appeared on cassette and LP.
Title list
For Catalept a string sample of Bernard Herrmann's Psycho soundtrack was used.
Style
Ulver lead the chosen with Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Metamorphosis way away, so away from metal to electronic music back. On Perdition City slow trip-hop beats, piano, saxophone, samples, and clicks & cuts dominate; it can be found echoes of lounge jazz. The pieces are primarily from without singing and are mostly atmospheric - atmospheric.
Reception
The reactions of the press were divided. Robert Pöpperl - Berenda from Rock Hard keeps the album "boring ears torture ," David M. Pecoraro of Pitchfork Media for an " unwise experiment". Jochen beef Frey attested Perdition City on Baby Blue Pages on the one hand " a very unique and peculiar charm " and criticized the other hand, that " the Norwegians then but here and there with unmotivated noise sequences and the length of drawn, indefinable Gewabere " bogged down. William York of Allmusic praises, however, the album " Evokes just the sort of desolate, rainy -night- in - the-city atmosphere it sets out to create" on metal.de it is referred to as "innovative and ambitious". For Arlette Huguenin of Vampster it is an album that they can recommend to all those " with a clear conscience that have gotten over it, that the name ' Ulver ' is no longer just for Black Metal, but also for innovative, dark trip hop, the is not under pressure to get into the charts with clear outlines song ".