Utom Alla

Utom Alla - Älskade Sjukdom LP.
Buy it from:
Drone Records
(cd from u-cover records )
Reviews for ‘Älskade Sjukdom’
Not sure quite what's in the air in Malmö Sweden, but Utom Alla's David Gülich and Johan Lenason are clearly breathing a peculiar rarefied version, at least on this evidence. Translating with somewhat queasy allure as "Beloved Disease," Älskade Sjukdom is the most perplexing disc of the whole U-Cover CDR series. One of those "unearthed from the depths of the dark woods of southern Sweden" alien transmissions that sound like the work of slightly deranged trolls grappling with malfunctioning software, they've coaxed out thirteen tracks of organic pulse broth, layered, lapped up, and topped off. Some fleeting vocal input from passing wood-nymphs adds a Bad Elfin charm. File next to Deaf Center, Svarte Greiner and that whole Type label uncanny film soundtrack shtick, or maybe the Fonal forest freak folk discovering DSP and feeding it weird things. /ALAN LOCKETT / E/I MAG http://www.ei-mag.com/profile0010.php
A very different sounding release from here for U-Cover. Whilst it's still electronic at heart, there's an organic feel to the tracks that puts it more in line with acts like Deaf Center or some of the other Type output. Vocals from Little Death and Janina Frank are used sparingly and to great effect and the palpable sense of menace in some of the textures is fabulous. You need to check this one out for yourselves as it's quite brilliant. http://www.smallfish.co.uk/shop/release/?cat=U-COVERCDR036
"From a recording studio located in the woods of southern Sweden, David Gülich and Johan Lenason create their hallucinatory Utom Alla material using acoustic instruments, computer software, and assorted gadgets. Abetted by vocal support from Elin Almered (aka Little Death) and Janina Frank, the group's Älskade Sjukdom debut is an arresting travelogue through thirteen alien and disturbed settings. Beatless smears, willowy tones, and phantom murmurs emerge in nightmarish plunges into the netherworld such as "Stelkramp I Gräset" where raw electric guitar shudders and clattering crackle collide. Were the album not issued on U-cover, Utom Alla's haunted material would make a natural Type partner to Deaf Center 's Pale Ravine, Xela's The Dead Sea, and The North Sea & Rameses III's Night of the Ankou." (http://www.textura.org/reviews/ucover_cds&eps.htm)
For BOOKING shows with Utom Alla please send a message here or send an e-mail to STOLT_KONUNG[at]HOTMAIL[dot]COM
..and please download better quality versions of our songs here:
Älskade Sjukdom , Kniv och Sked (with Janina Frank) , Tvätta Händerna , Ny Sjukdom
...and two older songs:
Tvelos , Skogen
Utom Alla - Älskade Sjukdom
Utom Alla - Panaurora