Echoes of the Future 42: Ummagma
Apr 11, 10:00am
Echoes and Dust
Echoes and Dust
- Ummagma - 1+1=3
- Ummagma - Back To You
- Ummagma - Lama (Dunaewsky69 remix)
- Ummagma - Lama (Ian Baird Remix)
- Ummagma - Lama (Jane Woodman remix)
Tagged: antigravity
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Ummagma have rather caught our fancy over here at Echoes and Dust with their beautiful blend of Shoegaze and Dream Pop harking back to the glory days of 4AD. To find out a bit more about them we asked singer Shanua McLarnon to tell us more of their story. By Dan Salter
Ummagma has come a long way since I featured their double debut of their albums, Ummagma and Antigravity . The Canadian/Ukranian husband and wife duo have built a worldwide fanbase, had a feature in Rolling Stone Magazine Russia, and have recently made a partnership with The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records. Ummagma has been working with TBTCI artist, Robsongs , and to show their appreciation, the label had clip maker, Dimitry Uziel put together this video for "Human Factor". Dimitry has perfectly captured Ummagma's sound within the visuals: washed out, [...]
' Antigravity ' is a diverse listen, at times straightforward pop, occasionally abstract and as a Soundcloud comment aptly notes "Holy early 4AD"! Ummagma is a duo (Alexx Kretov of the Ukraine and Shauna McLarnon of Canada) who formed in Moscow a decade ago. The pair didn't release their debut album, or should I say albums, until mid last year (the self-titled twelve track LP and ' Antigravity '). 'Kiev' is a song taken from the latter, influenced by the likes of the Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance and The Sundays. Ummagma - [...]
Ummagma es un dúo ucranio/canadiense formado en el 2003 por Shauna McLarnon y Alexander Kretov , quienes ya cuentan con dos álbumes - Antigravity y Ummagma - que oscilan entre los géneros dream pop, new wave, post punk e indie rock. La sonoridad de Ummagma es sumamente ecléctica y cálida. Sus canciones vas desde las estructuras pop más amenas, hasta paisajes sonoros amplios, etéreos y complejos. Dentro del espectro estéreo encontramos dulces guitarras acústicas, guitarras eléctricas distorsionadas, vocales profundas, múltiples capas [...]
Youth of Today at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 ( more by Keith Marlowe ) Ray Cappo , 46, one of [Revelation Records'] founders, took his place on the stage as the singer for the band Youth of Today , and shouted at the mosh pit, " It's been 20 years but the message is still the same: Tear down the waaaalllll." ... Raghunath left rock in a search for a personal true north... He found comfort in studying ancient yogi texts, meditation, chanting and long stints [...]
Ummagma is a Canadian-Ukrainian shoegaze post-rock duo. Shauna McLarnon (vocals, composition, lyrics) and Alexx Kretov (composition, instruments, arrangement, recording, vocals) met in Moscow in 2003 and fell in love. They have just released two full-length albums: Ummagma and Antigravity . With a mix of ambient, jazz and dream pop, the duo digs deep exploring textures, heavy on echo and reverb. Ummagma The first album of the set brings back Mike Oldfield and the Cocteau Twins. The duo's shared love [...]
It was only a week ago that I featured Ummagma 's debut albums, but I figured that the Canadian-Ukrainian duo deserved another feature. Back in July, Ummagma pulled a bold maneuver and decided to release not one, but two, albums as their introduction to the music world. It's hard enough to get a lot of people to listen to one full album in a single sitting nowadays, so two albums at once is a bit overwhelming. Fortunately, they've been getting quite a bit of good press, and the albums have been picking up some steam. I sat down and [...]
I've finally realized what my favorite part of running a music blog is. Sure, free music is great, and hearing advance releases of albums is a wonderful privileged, but that comes nowhere close to the biggest reward. I love being in contact with people from all over the world. I pride myself on featuring international musicians as often as possible, because I honestly believe that it's those who live outside of America that set the trends for tomorrow's new sound. The support from an international audience has been amazing, and because of it, I've learned so much about the world [...]
photo by Gary LoVerde When I first saw the name Norco Lapalco on a flyer, I knew something was up. Any band that was going to draw its name from the polar opposite and outermost reaches of the city- planting their flag on the scene like they were fucking Iberville and Bienville themselves- had better bring it strong or get laughed out of town. But from the first note struck that fateful night I caught them at Siberia, I knew they meant business. They rolled through a mesmerizing set that combined Minutemen fast-funk and [...]
photo by Dan Fox The musical art installation “Dithyrambalina” (or “Music Box”) started as a cardboard model of an ornate house, built by New York street artist Callie Curry, aka Swoon. Each room in the proposed 45 foot house would be a separate music instrument, so that a group of people could theoretically “play the house.” Dithyrambalina’s beta test – a series of separate intricate musical shacks made from the collapsed house of DJ Rusty Lazer – was brought to life by Delaney Martin’s New Orleans Airlift organization of New York and New Orleans [...]
You would never guess at first glance that these two guys would be friends at all. Art Boonparn, a soft-voiced Thai-by-way-of-Connecticut Tulane student seemed like the yin to Louie Bankston’s Cajun maniac yang. But then that’s how the cosmos works sometimes, isn’t it? In the vibrant and too-small-to-clique-up underground music scene of New Orleans in the early ‘90s, Boonparn and Bankston (aka Loomis) were both workaholics when it came to creative output, so it was inevitable that their paths would cross—and cross often. Art DJed “The World of Punk” for WTUL, put out his zine, simply titled Boonparn (which was [...]
photo by Dan Fox If you weren’t a subtle person, you might think of noisy, improvisation-oriented guitarist Rob Cambre as the “Thurston Moore of New Orleans.” For one thing, Cambre has the balls to get up in front of crowds alone with just his guitar, somehow managing to make something huge and fascinating that overshadows the musician, the way real music should. Cambre was an admitted disciple of early Eddie Van Halen, but by the time he heard Sonic Youth as a college freshman, Cambre was already listening to Peter Kowald and Evan Parker [...]
I stay in shape by working out using body weight training and a book called You Are Your Own Gym . You should check it out: 14 bucks and you have a blueprint for life on keeping your whole body in top form. 20 minutes a day, a couple times a week and you’re Special Forces tight. The author, Mark Lauren, loves New Orleans, did some of the photo shoots of the book’s first pressing on New Orleans balconies and even used a local publisher. “What’s this got to do with poop and the price of gas, E?” Funny [...]
Arriving home after a ten-hour drive from Robbinsville, North Carolina, my house only partially feels like home. B and his band are touring Europe and Henry Dog is still in Metairie at his favorite playground, Puppy Love. The cats add some comfort to the structure, but there is a manifest absence: the remarkable and eerie feeling that the essence of my missing loved ones- dog and man- are only embossed on the air, not altogether there yet almost tangible. The majority of pet owners know the feeling of their homes without their animals and most have had the [...]
photo by Musa Alves Love it, hate it, ignore it or flock to it, Austin’s South By Southwest has become a yearly spectacle, where vans crammed with starry-eyed rock babies from across the country congregate in the heart of Texas to grab a piece of that music dollar pie (and good Tex-Mex). Since the ANTIGRAVITY staff was too busy to make it this year, we asked some of our friends who were going to share their thoughts and experiences on an event that’s known as everything from a “blow job contest” (Vice) to “summer [...]
photo by Angel Ceballos Ian Svenonius was the last musical character of the pre-internet, Washington D.C-Dischord Records era to sneak a seat at the table of legendary front-men, beside Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye and H.R. of Bad Brains. Svenonius’ first band, the Nation of Ulysses, combined the noise and politics of MC5 and Public Enemy in a screaming attack that threatened, outright, to “destroy America.” The vague but powerful manifestos of their album inserts, penned by a young, scrappy Svenonius, certainly make one sentimental for the days before digital music. [...]
With all this great music coming up so soon, it’s hard not to get excited about the Spring. Mardi Gras and St. Paddy’s may be over but as we all know, there’s always something to do in the Crescent City. Hell, French Quarter Fest is right around the corner. Spring also means rejuvenation, rebirth, festivals galore and Catholics eating meat on Fridays. Since we’re on the subject of Fridays, I recently sat down with the Social Service to talk about their new weekly, HeadSET . Debuting on March 30th at the Hookah (formerly the Hookah Cafe) on [...]
photo by Leslie McKellar When Meschiya Lake and Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Lee (two of this city’s powerhouse singer-songwriters) both gush on stage about how excited they are to be opening for their favorite band, it’s hard not to expect something truly spectacular to follow in their wake. But that’s exactly what happened last February, when on an Ash Wednesday no less, mere hours after Mardi Gras’ last gasp, an eager crowd packed the Hi-Ho Lounge to catch Shovels and Rope. A fiery, wedded duo from Charleston, South Carolina, Michael Trent and [...]
photo by Gary LoVerde There are legendary bands like Nirvana and even New Orleans’ own Eyehategod; and then there are the Melvins. Like the Pixies or Black Flag, the Melvins helped create a rabid, raunchy rock movement. And while it didn’t quite make millionaires out of founder Buzz Osborne and company (have you seen the video where Buzz tries to buy a 20,000 square-foot house with “street cred?” “I’m considered the Godfather of grunge!” He tells the incredulous agent), the Melvins have continued to tour and release when most of their musical offspring- some [...]
Artist: Ummagma Title: 1+1=3 File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Indie Year: 2012
Artist: Ummagma Title: Back To You File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Indie Year: 2012
Artist: Ummagma Title: Lama (Dunaewsky69 remix) File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Electronic
Artist: Ummagma Title: Lama (Ian Baird Remix) File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Electronic/dreamwave
Artist: Ummagma Title: Lama (Jane Woodman remix) File Name: SoundCloud Genre: darkwave
Video: Ummagma - Human Factor
Feb 3, 8:14pm
TheRecordStache
TheRecordStache
Ummagma has come a long way since I featured their double debut of their albums, Ummagma and Antigravity . The Canadian/Ukranian husband and wife duo have built a worldwide fanbase, had a feature in Rolling Stone Magazine Russia, and have recently made a partnership with The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records. Ummagma has been working with TBTCI artist, Robsongs , and to show their appreciation, the label had clip maker, Dimitry Uziel put together this video for "Human Factor". Dimitry has perfectly captured Ummagma's sound within the visuals: washed out, [...]
Artist: Ummagma Title: Human Factor File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Indie Year: 2011
Artist: Ummagma Title: Live And Let Die File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Indie Year: 2012
Artist: Ummagma Title: Upsurd File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Indie Year: 2012
Ummagma – 'Kiev'
Jan 26, 8:01am
Sounds Better With Reverb
Sounds Better With Reverb
' Antigravity ' is a diverse listen, at times straightforward pop, occasionally abstract and as a Soundcloud comment aptly notes "Holy early 4AD"! Ummagma is a duo (Alexx Kretov of the Ukraine and Shauna McLarnon of Canada) who formed in Moscow a decade ago. The pair didn't release their debut album, or should I say albums, until mid last year (the self-titled twelve track LP and ' Antigravity '). 'Kiev' is a song taken from the latter, influenced by the likes of the Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance and The Sundays. Ummagma - [...]
Conoce a Ummagma
Dec 11, 2012, 6:39pm
noiselab
noiselab
Ummagma es un dúo ucranio/canadiense formado en el 2003 por Shauna McLarnon y Alexander Kretov , quienes ya cuentan con dos álbumes - Antigravity y Ummagma - que oscilan entre los géneros dream pop, new wave, post punk e indie rock. La sonoridad de Ummagma es sumamente ecléctica y cálida. Sus canciones vas desde las estructuras pop más amenas, hasta paisajes sonoros amplios, etéreos y complejos. Dentro del espectro estéreo encontramos dulces guitarras acústicas, guitarras eléctricas distorsionadas, vocales profundas, múltiples capas [...]
Artist: Ummagma Title: Lama File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Indie Year: 2012
Artist: Ummagma Title: Outside File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Indie Year: 2012
Raghunath Cappo, anti-gravity yoga instructor
Nov 16, 2012, 9:30am
BrooklynVegan
BrooklynVegan
Youth of Today at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 ( more by Keith Marlowe ) Ray Cappo , 46, one of [Revelation Records'] founders, took his place on the stage as the singer for the band Youth of Today , and shouted at the mosh pit, " It's been 20 years but the message is still the same: Tear down the waaaalllll." ... Raghunath left rock in a search for a personal true north... He found comfort in studying ancient yogi texts, meditation, chanting and long stints [...]
Ummagma: Ummagma + Antigravity
Oct 9, 2012, 8:35am
Here Comes The Flood
Here Comes The Flood
Ummagma is a Canadian-Ukrainian shoegaze post-rock duo. Shauna McLarnon (vocals, composition, lyrics) and Alexx Kretov (composition, instruments, arrangement, recording, vocals) met in Moscow in 2003 and fell in love. They have just released two full-length albums: Ummagma and Antigravity . With a mix of ambient, jazz and dream pop, the duo digs deep exploring textures, heavy on echo and reverb. Ummagma The first album of the set brings back Mike Oldfield and the Cocteau Twins. The duo's shared love [...]
Artist: Ummagma Title: Photographer File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Indie Year: 2012
Artist: Ummagma Title: River Town File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Indie Year: 2011
Neu bei iTunes: Antigravity – Oliver Kaah
Sep 21, 2012, 5:14pm
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In.die Meute | das Indie und Rock PortalAntigravity Oliver Kaah Erscheinungsdatum: 16.06.2012 Anzahl der Titel: 14 Genre: Metal Albumpreis: 8,99 € Copyright ℗ 2012 Oliver Kaah via iTunes 10 neu hinzugefügte Albums [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
UMMAGMA - ANTIGRAVITY / SELF-TITLED (Part 2)
Aug 19, 2012, 11:14pm TheRecordStache
TheRecordStache
It was only a week ago that I featured Ummagma 's debut albums, but I figured that the Canadian-Ukrainian duo deserved another feature. Back in July, Ummagma pulled a bold maneuver and decided to release not one, but two, albums as their introduction to the music world. It's hard enough to get a lot of people to listen to one full album in a single sitting nowadays, so two albums at once is a bit overwhelming. Fortunately, they've been getting quite a bit of good press, and the albums have been picking up some steam. I sat down and [...]
Ummagma - Antigravity / Self-titled
Aug 11, 2012, 5:15pm TheRecordStache
TheRecordStache
I've finally realized what my favorite part of running a music blog is. Sure, free music is great, and hearing advance releases of albums is a wonderful privileged, but that comes nowhere close to the biggest reward. I love being in contact with people from all over the world. I pride myself on featuring international musicians as often as possible, because I honestly believe that it's those who live outside of America that set the trends for tomorrow's new sound. The support from an international audience has been amazing, and because of it, I've learned so much about the world [...]
Bridging The Gap with Norco Lapalco
Jun 2, 2012, 12:00am
Barryfest
Barryfest
photo by Gary LoVerde When I first saw the name Norco Lapalco on a flyer, I knew something was up. Any band that was going to draw its name from the polar opposite and outermost reaches of the city- planting their flag on the scene like they were fucking Iberville and Bienville themselves- had better bring it strong or get laughed out of town. But from the first note struck that fateful night I caught them at Siberia, I knew they meant business. They rolled through a mesmerizing set that combined Minutemen fast-funk and [...]
House of Sound: A Look Back from the Music Box Family
Jun 2, 2012, 12:00am Barryfest
Barryfest
photo by Dan Fox The musical art installation “Dithyrambalina” (or “Music Box”) started as a cardboard model of an ornate house, built by New York street artist Callie Curry, aka Swoon. Each room in the proposed 45 foot house would be a separate music instrument, so that a group of people could theoretically “play the house.” Dithyrambalina’s beta test – a series of separate intricate musical shacks made from the collapsed house of DJ Rusty Lazer – was brought to life by Delaney Martin’s New Orleans Airlift organization of New York and New Orleans [...]
True Bromance with Boonparn and Loomis
Jun 1, 2012, 11:00pm Barryfest
Barryfest
You would never guess at first glance that these two guys would be friends at all. Art Boonparn, a soft-voiced Thai-by-way-of-Connecticut Tulane student seemed like the yin to Louie Bankston’s Cajun maniac yang. But then that’s how the cosmos works sometimes, isn’t it? In the vibrant and too-small-to-clique-up underground music scene of New Orleans in the early ‘90s, Boonparn and Bankston (aka Loomis) were both workaholics when it came to creative output, so it was inevitable that their paths would cross—and cross often. Art DJed “The World of Punk” for WTUL, put out his zine, simply titled Boonparn (which was [...]
Sparks Fly with Rob Cambre and Thurston Moore
Jun 1, 2012, 10:00pm Barryfest
Barryfest
photo by Dan Fox If you weren’t a subtle person, you might think of noisy, improvisation-oriented guitarist Rob Cambre as the “Thurston Moore of New Orleans.” For one thing, Cambre has the balls to get up in front of crowds alone with just his guitar, somehow managing to make something huge and fascinating that overshadows the musician, the way real music should. Cambre was an admitted disciple of early Eddie Van Halen, but by the time he heard Sonic Youth as a college freshman, Cambre was already listening to Peter Kowald and Evan Parker [...]
The Rational Radicant: Brown Energy
May 8, 2012, 4:17pm Barryfest
Barryfest
I stay in shape by working out using body weight training and a book called You Are Your Own Gym . You should check it out: 14 bucks and you have a blueprint for life on keeping your whole body in top form. 20 minutes a day, a couple times a week and you’re Special Forces tight. The author, Mark Lauren, loves New Orleans, did some of the photo shoots of the book’s first pressing on New Orleans balconies and even used a local publisher. “What’s this got to do with poop and the price of gas, E?” Funny [...]
Paw Talk: Lost and Found
May 4, 2012, 9:42pm Barryfest
Barryfest
Arriving home after a ten-hour drive from Robbinsville, North Carolina, my house only partially feels like home. B and his band are touring Europe and Henry Dog is still in Metairie at his favorite playground, Puppy Love. The cats add some comfort to the structure, but there is a manifest absence: the remarkable and eerie feeling that the essence of my missing loved ones- dog and man- are only embossed on the air, not altogether there yet almost tangible. The majority of pet owners know the feeling of their homes without their animals and most have had the [...]
Hottest Spot on the Compass: Dispatches from SXSW
May 4, 2012, 8:38pm Barryfest
Barryfest
photo by Musa Alves Love it, hate it, ignore it or flock to it, Austin’s South By Southwest has become a yearly spectacle, where vans crammed with starry-eyed rock babies from across the country congregate in the heart of Texas to grab a piece of that music dollar pie (and good Tex-Mex). Since the ANTIGRAVITY staff was too busy to make it this year, we asked some of our friends who were going to share their thoughts and experiences on an event that’s known as everything from a “blow job contest” (Vice) to “summer [...]
Ian Svenonius Just Doesn’t Like Anything Important
May 4, 2012, 8:32pm Barryfest
Barryfest
photo by Angel Ceballos Ian Svenonius was the last musical character of the pre-internet, Washington D.C-Dischord Records era to sneak a seat at the table of legendary front-men, beside Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye and H.R. of Bad Brains. Svenonius’ first band, the Nation of Ulysses, combined the noise and politics of MC5 and Public Enemy in a screaming attack that threatened, outright, to “destroy America.” The vague but powerful manifestos of their album inserts, penned by a young, scrappy Svenonius, certainly make one sentimental for the days before digital music. [...]
Beats Per Month: Check Your Headset
May 4, 2012, 8:31pm Barryfest
Barryfest
With all this great music coming up so soon, it’s hard not to get excited about the Spring. Mardi Gras and St. Paddy’s may be over but as we all know, there’s always something to do in the Crescent City. Hell, French Quarter Fest is right around the corner. Spring also means rejuvenation, rebirth, festivals galore and Catholics eating meat on Fridays. Since we’re on the subject of Fridays, I recently sat down with the Social Service to talk about their new weekly, HeadSET . Debuting on March 30th at the Hookah (formerly the Hookah Cafe) on [...]
It’s Supposed to Be Loud: Shovels and Rope Make Friends with the Sound Man
May 4, 2012, 8:28pm Barryfest
Barryfest
photo by Leslie McKellar When Meschiya Lake and Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Lee (two of this city’s powerhouse singer-songwriters) both gush on stage about how excited they are to be opening for their favorite band, it’s hard not to expect something truly spectacular to follow in their wake. But that’s exactly what happened last February, when on an Ash Wednesday no less, mere hours after Mardi Gras’ last gasp, an eager crowd packed the Hi-Ho Lounge to catch Shovels and Rope. A fiery, wedded duo from Charleston, South Carolina, Michael Trent and [...]
Long-Haired Bullshit with Buzz Osborne and Gary Mader
May 4, 2012, 8:25pm Barryfest
Barryfest
photo by Gary LoVerde There are legendary bands like Nirvana and even New Orleans’ own Eyehategod; and then there are the Melvins. Like the Pixies or Black Flag, the Melvins helped create a rabid, raunchy rock movement. And while it didn’t quite make millionaires out of founder Buzz Osborne and company (have you seen the video where Buzz tries to buy a 20,000 square-foot house with “street cred?” “I’m considered the Godfather of grunge!” He tells the incredulous agent), the Melvins have continued to tour and release when most of their musical offspring- some [...]
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