2002 - 2005 july
amaury cambuzat, matteo dainese, manuel fabbro
1999 feb - 2001 july
amaury cambuzat, olivier manchion, matteo dainese
1994 dec - 1998 dec
amaury cambuzat, olivier manchion, franck lantignac
1993- 1994
amaury cambuzat, olivier manchion
Influences
[ faUSt, Can, This Heat, Swans, NEU!,
Velvet Underground, Brian Eno, Robert Wyatt ]
Sounds Like
"Call it musique concrete paved with irreverence"
[LES INROCKUPTIBLES, fr]
"Prefigurant les secousses tellurique de Godspeed et consorts,
ce groupe la fois primitif et savant
a libere le rock hexagonal de ses chaines".
[WIRE MAGAZINE]
ABOUT VEGETALE"
"Ulan Bator music follows an eccentric orbit,
while their power is usually kept simmering in reserve.
The player investigate the borders of song structure.
They build up enormous tension (...)
they played a marathon three hours set with faust early last year.
Hard to imagine, given Ulan Bator's inherent sense of control:
halting on the brink before complete freakout sets in
is what makes the group so special"
[ALTERNATIVE PRESS]
ABOUT 2 DEGREES"
"To say that this is the best rock music France has ever produced
is to damn it with faint praise.
This trio may be the only band from that oversauced nation
to be worth a damn in a long time
-maybe since Metal Urbain or Magma (...)
Call it musique concrte paved with irreverence. 2 Degrees ranks among the best EPs of 1996".
[MICHAEL GIRA - YOUNG GOD RECORDS]
ABOUT EGO:ECHO"
" Overall structures are fairly simple just a couple chords apiece.
Where it all happens is in the interaction of the instruments.
Their respective playing is loop-centric,
o narrative thrust proceeds from phase relations
shifting in the course of a given song.
One summer, in the midst of a debilitating heat-wave, Ulan Bator and I (complete strangers to each other at the time) locked ourselves up in a tiny recording studio in a village just north of Florence, Italy, for 18 hours a day for three weeks. We got to know each other pretty quickly! Of course I'd heard demos of the material that eventually became the songs on this recording, and I'd heard (and been a fan of) their earlier records, but as we started to work it became obvious to everyone that we had to be open to anything, to be willing to start from scratch in some cases - just throw everything out the window and make something happen right now if we were going to rise to the potential of the moment. So, much (though certainly not all) of this music was written and/or (re)arranged on the spot, as we worked, under increasingly intense pressure. Adrenaline, stress, heat, chaos, and panic, combined with the lanuage barrier (they're French, the engineer was Italian), forced us into places we never expected to end up in, which to me, was incredibly elating. In some cases the basis for the song started with just a groove, or an electronic sound, or a vocal idea, or an accidental noise, and was eventually wrestled into the final version you'll hear on this CD (though other songs are re-arranged versions of material they'd previously worked out). To watch them play, cramped up in the miniscule (about 8' x 12', as I recall) recording booth - bass, drums, guitar and amps included - strangling the groove out of their instruments with completely uncynical and unselfconscious commitment (and this from unrepentant, intellectual "art rockers" - a breed I usually find to be pretty anemic, at best, and merely clever, or "hip", at worst), was a joy I'll never forget. Their musicality and their dedication to making something powerful and clear out of whatever raw materials were at their disposal at the time ( sometimes a grand piano, for instance, or other times a piece of looped digital feedback), coupled with their immense knowledge and enthusiasm for the music they love that's gone before them - from the Beatles and Beach Boys to New York No Wave to Krautrock to experimental electronic music - combined to make this, I think, a great "experimental rock" record - or whatever genre you want to call it. To me personally, it's one of the most rewarding records in which I've ever been involved, and it's an honor to be able to release it on Young God Records. I think if you listen to it with even a fraction of the pure enthusiasm of its intent, you'll find much to enjoy here. As for the lyrics being sung in French: Tough luck, they are French.
[BRAINWASHED]
ABOUT EGO:ECHO"
Ulan Bator is a French avant art rock trio who apparently take their name from the capitol of Mongolia. "Ego : Echo" is their third album and it was for the most part spontaneously created during 3 weeks of sessions last summer in Florence, Italy with producer and Young God Records head Michael Gira (SWANS, The Angels of Light). Ulan are all about tight and minimal, tense and repetitive guitar/bass/drum rock grooves - both noisy and subdued - as musical and (French) vocal passages become hypnotic head noddin' mantras. Add organ, piano, bow, keys, horn, tape loops, electronic drone, 'la la la' styled backing vocals and Gira's dry, crisp, clean and full production. Comparisons to Can, Faust (Jean Herve Peron contributes horns to 1 song), the Bad Seeds, Pan Sonic and Gira's own projects is inevitable as everything is sparse yet beautifully melodic and the sound and feel is similar, at the very least, in spirit. The 16 minute centerpiece "Let Go Ego" in particular provides the variety of most everything Ulan Bator do in one song with extensive stretches of drone, somnambulant sonic meandering, heavy rock out and lengthy coda chant. "Ego : Echo" is a dynamic rock record that resonates with passion and a sense of straightforward urgency. It's one of a handful of cool musical things lately from France and it fits right in with the rest of the Young God catalog. Up next from YGR are albums by Calla and Flux Information Sciences in January and the new Angels of Light album "How I Loved You" in February ... [Weddle]
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FAUST
'In Autumn' (2007) 3 cds + 1 dvd, live form the 2005 UK tour
faUSt as Werner Zappi Diermaier and Jean-Hervé Péron (founder members)
with Olivier Manchion and Amaury Cambuzat (Ulan Bator) special guest Geoff Leigh (Henry Cow)
PENSEES MASSACRE video 2005 album 'Rodeo Massacre'
ULAN BATOR DISCOGRAPHY
ALBUMS, 45RPM, COMPILATION...
2007 MARCH 01 " ULAANBAATAR "
1993-1998 unreleased works
performed by A.Cambuzat/O.Manchion/F.Lantignac
68 mns of previously unreleased material
(live, demo, single, sounds...)
released by Jestrai | ruminanCe
RODEO MASSACRE 2005
ALBUM CD
1 fly candy dragon fly!
NOUVEL AIR 2003
ALBUM CD
mixed by ROBIN GUTHRIE
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