Browse by Label: ULTRA ECZEMA (BELGIUM)

Artist:	PADDEN, DANIEL
Title:	The Isaac Storm
Label:	ULTRA ECZEMA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	UE 037LP

"Disney characters with 4 eyes, squirrels without a nose and purple owls with a yellow mohawk are siked to announce this new Daniel Padden LP. Daniel Padden is a multi-instrumentalist and a full time member of the UK-based goof troupe, Volcano The Bear. For this new LP he used piano, harmonium, cello, amplifier, zither, tape recorder, concertina, banjo, thumb piano, viola, organ etc.. to create a beautiful fictional soundtrack for a cartoon film that had to be made in the '50s, but could have been made during yesterday's hurricane too. Or; a free dude going folk while trying to play chamber music and pouring a disgusting concrète tape collage sauce over the finished total. Comes in a watercolor/crayon/collaged cover by Dennis Tyfus, 400 copies." Limited stock.

Artist:	HANS GRUSEL'S KRANKENKABINET
Title:	Another Miserable Day
Label:	ULTRA ECZEMA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	UE 038LP

"San Francisco's most German electronic creeper Hans Grüsel does it again, after seeing their amazing performance at No Fun this year I couldn't wait to do a record with these weirdos! Amazing layered synth madness!! Using a mountain of instruments I never heard of, these 2 long compositions give you the worst melancholic Sunday afternoon feeling, the party is over, and all you're left with is a horrific hangover that will never leave you, thinking of the carnival the night before, this is another miserable day indeed, you'll have to wear the hottest costume again, your head is made of wood and nothing makes sense anymore... this is beautiful analog electronic composer/concrète madness with an old piano trumpet sauce, every time you'll find new sounds!!! Also, be sure to find them live somewhere, the only band that can actually play music while wearing huge wooden houses on their heads... the cover for this record is the second in a series of 5 LPs with 6 panel fold out covers by Snotyfus! This one has a huge green wooden house raster on the outside and a full color village krank on the inside! Limited to 500 copies!"

Artist:	BIRTH REFUSAL/CASSIS CORNUTA
Title:	Birth Refusal/Cassis Cornuta
Label:	ULTRA ECZEMA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	UE 039LP

"During the last Euro tour of Wolf Eyes, John Olson (of American Tapes, Spykes, Guam River etc..) and Mike Connelly (of Gods of Tundra, Hair Police, Failing Lights etc.) decided it was enough! They screamed 'I'M NOT GOING TO BED!!! I NEVER WANNA SLEEP AGAIN!!!' They missed their flights and stayed in Antwerp with the Ultra Audiobored Horror crew for 7 more weeks without food and drinks, just dry weed and cancerbags to suck on! After that intense test to see if they could adapt to the Antwerp life style, they finally met up with legendary Belgian eccentric cacti and hat collector CASSIS CORNUTA, this psychedelic character brought his whole space synth and tape lab over to radio central to record an intense last gasp jam with the hardly breathing Olson and Connelly, the end result is an amazing trip to space and back to the mental hospital! Like pouring lighter fluid and Tabasco up your genitals or like Olson states it so beautifully; 'like pissing on your own hand, freezing it and then using it as a lollypop for 5 days!' Comes in a gross 6-panel cover design and with an etch on the B-side!'

Artist:	HAIR POLICE
Title:	Blind Kingdom
Label:	ULTRA ECZEMA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	UE 042LP

"Odd colored carpet of bizarre 3D fields dominate the bright and lurid psychedelic forests you'll have to run thru to grab a mug a brew at the end of the trip! Hop on the back of a giant pink elephant and let go, eventually follow his tiny dick-like tail if u are too small to climb up this pink turt in space! But do give it a try and check out what's left? Thats right: nothing! Just a puddle of restless throbbing poop in different colours. The elephant turns out to be a puddle as well and the sounds you're hearing are all on the most psychedelic Hair Police LP so far! This is definitely way different then any of their other recordings, way more high bliss, blown out delayed voice and hardly any harshness. Originally recorded as a Hair Police radio special for Radio Centraal in Antwerp! Thick black and neon blue eye destructive cover design and a psychic laser etch on the B-side of this 180 grams wax!"

Artist:	COMMISSARIS HJULER EN MAMA BEER
Title:	Mensen Die "Kort Staan" Voor de Zelfdoding
Label:	ULTRA ECZEMA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	UE 044LP

"'Please translate all the titles and our names in Flemmish,' Kommissar Hjuler asked me for this record. This record continues the German couple's satirical approach to Fluxus, Dada, outsider art, whatever u wanna call it. Kommissar Hjuler is a police officer from a small village in Germany, Flensburg, where he lives and works with his younger wife, Mama Bär and their kids. Mama Bär is a full time painter. The Kommissar only started making music when he was already in his thirtees, heavily influenced by the strange music he had been collecting since the age of 16. Almost all of their music got released on their own SHMF imprint, mostly limited to less then 20 copies and always packed in handmade collages, paintings or even giant puppets or garbage melted together. They've done a bunch of collabs with greats like Rudolf Eb-Er and Jan Iwers. This LP includes three long tracks; a hysterical cover version of Suicides' 'Frankie Teardrop,' a piece about the Bronx (with some guest vocals of their kid crying) and a side-long screaming argument between a granddad and a kid which sounds so painfully loud and 'German' that every touring band will want to skip Germany in the near future. This record gives you a pretty good introduction of what they're all about. Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Bär's way of working reminds me of people like Bobby Colombo, Scott Foust, Rudolf Eb-Er or even Gil J Wolman. It's the last one in the Ultra Eczema 6-panel fold out cover series, limited to 300 copies."

Artist:	X04
Title:	Lost Signals
Label:	ULTRA ECZEMA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	UE 045LP

"The trio of Bill Nace, John Truscinski and Jake Meginsky deliver their fourth spars, spaced scratched and creeped record, after their debut CD-R on Audiobot, an amazing tape on Bill's own imprint Open Mouth and an LP on Ecstatic Peace!. although this band uses only two guitars and percussion, they've built up a paradise of tension between instruments that by far don't sound like you'd think they'd sound. It does sound like someone is pulling your veins gently, softly focused on not really hurting you but having Chinese torture in the back of your brain. A no-named peasant would guess this music was made by an old dog collecting thousands of little pieces of metal, knowing exactly what they would sound like if u rub them onto another miked metal closet or a circuit-bent old wooden clock. Sensitive guitar molesting is never far away. I've heard the master for this record about 50 times before releasing it and still recognize new sounds in it. There's a lot of space on here, and it's really hard to figure out which instrument is which, not that it matters, but i did think 'what the hell is this sound made of.'" Besides XO4 and his solo work, Bill Nace also plays in a duo with Chris Cooper, in Vampire Belt with Chris Corsano, and in Northampton Wools with Thurston Moore. He also does amazing drawings, books and open mouth records/tapes. Both John Truscinski and Jake Meginsky also do amazing solo work! This record comes in a collaged cover design by Dennis Tyfus, limited to 500 copies."

Artist:	TYFUS, DENNIS
Title:	0032 (0)3 2934834
Label:	ULTRA ECZEMA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	UE 046LP

"This LP collects a selection of phone calls made daily between May 5th and July 29th, 2007 as part of the group exhibition 'Virus' at the Hessenhuis in Antwerp. Most of these calls have been broadcast during the weekly 'Tyfustijd' radio show on Radio Centraal (106.7FM). The conversations on this LP are either really embarrassing, sad or mean. The people who weren't on the other side of the line thought it was funny, though. The conversations interlude with Vomgrill's analog synth and scruffy voice tunes which gives it a specific radioplay sound or even borders with sound poetry. Limited to 400 copies, full color cover design by Dennis Tyfus and Kermit Apetown. Comes with liner notes and a picture of a 11 year old Tyfus calling his grandmum. Better start learning Flemish!"

Artist:	STEEN, JOS
Title:	Music for Tape and Turntable
Label:	ULTRA ECZEMA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$28.00
Catalog #:	UE 048LP

"Jos Steen is a remarkable outsider in the purest possible sense of the word. Telling stories about the dude always sounds like they're untrue or seriously exaggerated, the way he lives sounds like a fairytale and the way he acts would resemble the heaviest mix of Bukowski and Bobby Colombo. Jos lives in a tiny house underneath a radio tower of the national TV and radio station VRT, where he works as an audio librarian. The house is built on the highest point of the area in a forest. You can see it from miles and miles away. It's tiny but can be called a museum! It is full of homemade instruments and broken pianos, amazing wooden stringed instruments made of garbage and all kinds of foreign instruments no one remembers the name of. Since around 1964 Jos has been making poems, stories, paintings, collages, drawings and music/sound to kill the demons in his head or jam along to their forceful blues. Some call him 'the Belgian Beefheart' and the people that already forgot about Beefheart talk about a local little Howlin' Wolf. Jos always made self-released zines, tapes and more recently, mountains of CD-Rs of homemade blues, broken bottle experiments and heavy free music folk. This LP is a selection of tracks of a recent CD-R of tape and record player experiments spiced with vacuum cleaners, rotting voices, undefinable strings, pianos, etc. It's absolutely unthinkable his work could be potentially lost in time and space, for fuck's sake, the dude is a genius! In the past, Jos played with free jazz greats like Peter Jacquemin, André Goudbeek, Yvo van der Borght, with poetry psychos like Roland Topor and Freddy de Vree, and with Zappa's own Jimmy Carl Black who begged on his bare knees to play with Jos ... well maybe that's exaggerated as well. This LP comes in a gold and white cover by Dennis Tyfus and an offset printed insert!"

Artist:	THIELEMANS, ERIC
Title:	A Snare Is A Bell
Label:	ULTRA ECZEMA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$28.00
Catalog #:	UE 049LP

"This is the first in a series of solo percussion LPs on Ultra Eczema titled STS. A meditative psychedelic experience is what I would like to call this, though I realize I make it sound like a silly zen blowout, and that's not what it feels like at all! When I first saw it live in a giant church in Mechelen, Belgium, I was yelling 'this is the best show of the year.' I thought there wouldn't be an end to it and didn't even feel a build-up to a more tense sound or a drone. There was a difference in resonating sound and it definitely changed, but as with more constructive minimalists such as Steve Reich or maybe even Terry Riley, you can't tell when things change. That experience got enlarged as well by the scenography he played in, a splendid eye-torturing construction, built especially for this piece by Antwerp-based sculptor Filip Metten. On record it feels different of course, as you can skip the needle up and down to the end and back, you can hear an enormous tension and sound difference. Though this piece is written for only a snare drum and a tiny bit of vocals (resonating with the snare drum) it sounds like either 20 people on a snaredrum, like if Glen Branca would invite 567 people playing the exact same snare roll, or like a choir, and by the end definitely like the sound of a Whitehouse LP; building up strongly to the point of absolute silence, which feels like a relief! This piece is based on a snare roll which changes 3 times. Live, this piece can go up to an hour or longer, on this record, it is one full side. The B-side is a psychedelic etch! Eric Thielemans is based in Antwerp, Belgium and has made percussive pieces for theatre, has played psychedelic guitar music with Mauro Pawlowski, spaced free music with Sickboy and Cassisini Division and a ton load of great free jazz with Andre Goudbeek and Peter Jacquemyn. This record is limited to 500 copies, has an insert and comes in a duo colored psychic design by Dennis Tyfus."

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