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Ugress is mad sound professor
Gisle Martens Meyer and his groovetight percussive
assistant, The Igor.
With a sexy crew of guest vocalists and instrumentalists,
Ugress bloom with references to the last decades of pop, film and cult culture.
Symptoms of exposure include subtle drift towards the dancefloor, uncontrollable
rhythmical movements, hightened auditive pleasure and a out-of-reality experience
reported as "being part of an epic film".
On stage an überhybrid mash-feist of mad professorizing, cloned musicians,
steampunk instruments and multiple synchronized video projections keep
your eyes, ears and consciousness glued to an escapist reality of multiple dimensions.
The buzz started with live jobs at the beginning of the new millennia and in
2001 the first self financed 12", E-pipe, was released as a limited edition.
In 2002 the single "Loungemeister" was a huge radio hit, helped by a legendary
animated music video. The debut album, "Resound", was released in autumn
the same year, quickly reaching gold status in Norway.
Since then Ugress has been a fave for TV and film producers,
and composed score for the world famous extreme sport series
Perfect Moment - Nuit De La Glisse.
Resound was followed by "Cinematronics" in 2004, including underground hits
like Manhattan Sapphire and Makina Fifth, and again very popular music videos.
In 2006 Gisle Martens Meyer created his own label Uncanny Planet,
and bought back all rights to the music.
2006 also saw the release of "Film Music - Selected Cues",
a compilation of Ugress film scores from the past years.
Currently Ugress is recording for the new epic album "Unicorn"
which will be released January 28th, 2008. The first video single,
Kosmonaut, is available for download.
Remixes for the soundtrack to Norwegian box office hit and cult movie,
Release Jimmy, are also in progress.
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