The follow up to 2011's acclaimed 'Wars of the Roses', 'Messe I.X-VI.X'
was a different entity; reverberating 2007's sombre & solemn Shadows
of the Sun. Composed and first performed live by Ulver, alongside the
Tromsø Chamber Orchestra on September 21st 2012, the music was
commissioned by the Tromsø Kulturhus (House of Culture) in Norway, in a
cooperation with the Arctic Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra cultural
institution. The band took the concert recordings back to Oslo and spent
the Winter and Spring of 2013 in post-production, honing the material
for it's studio-equivalent. The album echoes the early electronic
experiments of EP's 'Silence Teaches You How to Sing' and 'Silencing the
Singing' and is furthermore said to invoke the ghost of an abandoned
Nattens madrigal renaissance-project.
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