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ULTRA MILKMAIDS - Medecine

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Ant-Zen act238 Release Year: 2010 Note: the return of the mighty ULTRA MILKMAIDS ! With the help of two female violin-players this is a beautiful mixture of chamber-music and drone-ambience, using guitars, piano, organ-drones; only available as LP or MP3 ! 190gr white vinyl, lim. 300, beautiful matte cover Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "ultra milkmaids (or the milkies, as they are fondly called by some of their fans) celebrate their 15th sound carrier anniversary on heavy 190gram white vinyl (and in digital format to those who have made it successfully into the digital age). always unpredictable and surprising, the french project strikes forward with a brand new path here - or possibly a path that leads like a circle back to their long deleted 'borray' release? with 'medecine' the milkies return to their roots and their first musical affection: abstract and ambient music, and this album marks a perfect bridging between both of these electronic subgenres. starting with elixir's beautiful melancholic string arrangements, the listener's journey continues with clicks and cuts blending with slow, majestic piano tunes and post-psychedelic sound walls (this is time). let yourself flow with a little help of a little injection (n°1) of soothing guitar drones, dive deeply into dc hammond's keyboard layers - discrete and melodic at the same time. follow the path of the reverberated guitar pads on cotton energy, and before getting lost, the drones reappear, surrounded with ruminant synth lines. this second injection provides the opportunity to end this journey, or to flip the record and start again. this record can be used as an analeptic and sedative at the same time. open up, let yourself go, and - as the artists advise: 'disconnect your mind and fall into the world of the milkmaids'!" [label info] www.ant-zen.com "Only fifteen releases by the Ultra Milkmaids in about as many years of existence, that is not a lot. Its been a while since I last heard anything by them, but fact remains that 'Peps' from 2000 is carved with the words 'classic' in mind. That fine album crossing serious electronic music and popmusic. Such things do not happen on 'Medecine' as we see the milkies return to their older, formative years, the ambient/drone era, but also, at the same time moved on from there. The sound that lingers over this new one is that there is an orchestral feel to it. The best is already at the beginning of side A, and stretches out over most of that side. Its a wonderful piece for strings (just strings? I'm not sure), which built up slowly, and reminded me of the first part of Gorecki's third symphony (well, up to the vocals that is). An excellent piece, classic Milkmaids again, although nothing like 'Peps'. The other pieces on this CD are substatially shorter and involve such instruments as piano, hammond organ and guitar. Here the milkies arrive in a suitable more conventional drone land but create music that is among the finest in the genre. That is still great drone music and 'Medecine' is an absolutely great record." [FdW, Vital Weekly]