"Always Eyes" from Suburban Living "Night Fantasy" from Umberto "Racecar" from Twin Tigers "Gucci Mountain" from Standish/Carlyon "Spider" from The Handsome Family [...]
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Não o Eco, mas o alter ego de Matt Hill, músico com paixão por sintetizadores e filmes de terror. Confrontations é o seu terceiro LP, editado pela Not Not Fun no passado mês, e o norte-americano virá apresentá-lo a Portugal já na próxima semana, com concertos marcados para o Porto (a 12 de Março, no Plano B, juntamente com Savanna), Coimbra (13 de Março, Aqui Base Tango, com Herr Doktor) e Lisboa (14 de Março, Lounge). Quem não conhece só precisa de clicar aqui . Original Website: Bodyspace
My busy week just came to an end, at midnight on a Friday. I'm sorry the blog consisted of mostly album downloads this week, but they're usually the quickest and easiest ways to fulfill my daily obligation to you, my readers. Tomorrow night I'll be house-sitting for some friends, so I'll have nothing to do [...]
This music belongs in a 16-bit sci-fi video game or an 80’s B-movie. Not Not Fun, 2013 8.1/ 10.0 In tune with their linear musical narrative, each song title on Confrontations by Umberto...
I'll cut to the chase here: if you've enjoyed Matt Hill's previous work as Umberto, then you'll like Confrontations , his latest album for Not Not Fun. If, on the other hand, you've tired of his imagined-soundtrack atmospheres, then this will just seem like a rehash of an already-rehashed sound. The production value is slightly cleaner this time around, a little less dusty-box-of-70s-horror-movie- VHS-tapes and a little more I-like-playing-with-synths-and -minor-chords. There are some subtle differences from his earlier albums; the drums on “Initial Revelation” resound with an unprecedented (for Hill) texture, while the synth lines on opener "Night [...]
The Shilohs – “The Place Where Nobody Knows I Go” (The Vancouver-based band recently released So Wild , their debut album via Light Organ Records. They combine jangly, Byrds-like guitars and sun-streaked 60’s pop with infectiously catchy melodies and hints of power-pop and folk for a sound that has one foot in the past and one in the future for a very promising debut.) https://www.facebook.com/TheSh ilohs Download: http://crash-avenue.com/Media/ mp3/Shilohs-place.mp3 [...]
Matt Hill's work as Umberto carves out its own niche with a blood-dripping machete, echoing soundtracks to Suspiria and John Carpenter films. Last year's Night Has A Thousand Screams was literally written as a score to an '80s Spanish horror flick. His new disc, Confrontations , is more body-snatcher than horror slasher, the anxious fear more related to peering at the glowing horizon than over the shoulder at the murderer chasing you through the woods. Separating Umberto from the context of classic soundtracks is difficult; the retro synths, [...]
Jenny O., Jagwar Ma, Team Ghost, and more added to Earbuddy Wax Compound. In case you haven't noticed, Earbuddy has teamed up with Wavo to feature some of the coolest music that we're currently into in our music playlist, the Earbuddy Wax Compound. And it gives you, the readers, [...]
Electronic-synth maestro Umberto , the musical project of Matt Hill, will be releasing his new album next week via Not Not Fun . It is a seamless collection of dark, droning synths that is best listened to with some headphones on letting your mind drift to another plane. Stream the album in full below.
La próxima semana Not Not Fun se estará encargando de poner a nuestra disposición de manera oficial el nuevo álbum de Umberto titulado "Confrontations", el cual le da una sólida continuación a lo que fue el disco que este tipo puso a la venta el año pasado de nombre "Night Has A Thousand Screams", así que si ustedes se quedaron con ganas de escuchar mas synths cinematograficos que sin ningún problema pudieran componer el soundtrack de una pelicula de terror, pues entonces esta noticia les hará la mañana mucho más amena, ya [...]
Ah, Sunday. One of my least favorite days of the week. Why, you ask? Well, not only because I have to work every Sunday from now until I get my life together and find a real job, but also because no one else I know works on Sundays and the prospect of returning to work [...]
Matt Hill is from Missouri, but you'd be forgiven for thinking he's time traveled to these shores from late-seventies Italy. His prog-driven synth project Umberto pays tribute to the Italo soundtracks of Dario Argento and company, and not just musically; prior releases make references to imagined horror movies, with track titles like From the Grave 's "Intermission" and "End Credits" and Prophecy of the Black Widow 's "Someone Chasing Someone Through A House," which is happily followed by "Everything Is Going To Be Okay." He's got a new album coming out on Not Not Fun called [...]
Este 5 de Febrero, Umberto estará editando su nuevo álbum de nombre "Confrontations" a través de Not Not Fun , y aunque ya tiene un buen rato desde que se habían anunciado los primeros detalles de este material, apenas hace unas dos semanas pudimos escuchar el primer sencillo titulado " Night Fantasy ", el cual ahora ya ha recibido un tratamiento visual que definitivamente describe a la perfección los sonidos que Umberto suele provocar con su par de sintetizadores, nada más chequen. Umberto: Myspace [...]
The music video for Umberto's "Night Fantasy," the first track off his forthcoming LP, Confrontations, ends almost exactly as it begins. But don't let that stop you from watching, for there is an intoxicating allure ... read more
Matt Hill attaque l'année 2013, muni de son projet Umberto , de la même façon qu'il a terminé celle tout juste écoulée : par le bon bout. Publiées via Rock Action - le label de Stuart Braithwaite de Mogwai - les dix compositions hommages à John Carpenter, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith et Vangelis de Night Has A Thousand Screams , créées et enregistrées à l'occasion du Glasgow Music And Film Festival de février 2012, touchaient juste, peuplant la pénombre urbaine et dépravée de moult vicissitudes fantasmagoriques. Le temps de planifier une tournée européenne ( event FB ) - avec un arrêt le 19 mars prochain [...]
Con medio mes transitado de 2013 y noticias de regresos insospechados -sí, Bowie, obvio-, sencillos promocionales y anuncios musicales ansiosos, por montones y para todos los gustos; como es habitual desde hace dos años aprovecho este espacio en Cortesía de la Casa para compartir con los lectores los 15 discos editados en 2012 que más me gustaron y emocionaron. Por supuesto que se trata de una lista muy personal en la que, fiel a mi afición por la canción, los cantautores o cancionistas -o como cada quien prefiera llamarlos- se llevan el protagonismo; en ese sentido, la siguiente lista no [...]
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Apenas el año pasado Umberto puso a la venta su mas reciente producción titulada "Night Has A Thousand Screams" a través de Rock Action , y además de haber trabajado en este cinematico lanzamiento, también les llegue a informar que este tipo fue uno de los que se dio a la tarea de hacer su propio remix para el álbum de remezclas que Mogwai editó antes de que el 2012 le llegara por completo. Pero bueno, después de que han pasado tan sólo unos cuatro meses de todo esto, Umberto ya tiene listo [...]
The album/score opens with controlled chimes and oscillating electronic cries. A distorted buzzsaw note emerges to guide a barrage of synth tones that pull the listener into an audio abyss. Umberto quickly gnashes his thriller-core fangs. He has one goal: to get you lost in the unholy alleys of sound. He has an extensive arsenal of instrumentation and a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the sounds that helped propel the 702s and 802s horror and sci-fi genres, but his tremendous amount of restraint hinders his ability to take chances and bring something new, yet cohesive, to [...]
On this edition of Audiography, we feature reviews of the latest from Umberto with Night Has a Thousand Screams , his score to a Spanish slasher film; Pop Levi’ s latest, souring disappointment, Medicine ; and the third album released this year by Guided By Voices , The Bears For Lunch . We also have an interview between Consequence of Sound ’s Len Comaratta and Bob van Heur, co-founder of Le Guess Who? , one of Europe’s premier festivals favoring [...]
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