The 11th Ugress album SCAVENGER ROYALE.
Official release June 17th, 2021. Download directly from Dropbox as mp3 or lossless wav.
You can also play in Spotify, Youtube, Apple Music, Soundcloud, Amazon and all other services.
Reanimating The Ruins Of The Mediapocalypse
The future has collapsed. You’re in a wild, vibrant and overgrown media landscape of fragmented ruins, drifting in and out of forgetful consciousness. Microscopic slices of memory stutter and dance in random flashes of recognition. The ruins are quietly sprouting, growing and grooving back to life. Something uncanny scavenge for shape.
“Scavenger Royale” is the 11th album by award-winning media-artist Ugress, the first in a brand new trilogy of releases where they musically and visually hyper-recycle our incessant collective media detritus. Through extensive processing and mutation of lost and forgotten media, culture and mythology, the artist deconstructs themselves, sound, music, graphics and video down to the atomic level, then re-animates these floating particles of ideas, eras, styles and phenomena back into recursive phantoms of themselves.
The tracks infinitely verges on recognition. There is no core, there is always just another ghost within. You got the music, like a wound.
Extended Edition
This version has 8 extra tracks on top of the original 14, for a total of 22. The extended edition contains an additional 4 bonus tracks previously unreleased, plus 4 instrumental versions of the original vocal tracks. You can access and download the original album version.
Selected track details




The Teddy Bear’s Picnic is a gloomy goth-gaze cover version of a vintage children’s nursery song, built by scavenging phrases, sounds and samples from all kinds of vintage nursery recordings, reassembled back into a dark orchestral version of the track where all keys are shifted to a more sensible minor.
About Ugress
Ugress is a cinematronic music project created by Norwegian media artist Gisle Martens Meyer. Since their first self-published vinyl in 2000, the project has by now released several gold-selling albums and won nominations and awards in all categories of film, music, art and technology, as well as created commissions and blockbuster productions for a wide range of international institutions. (For references see attached CV or composer worklist.)

During the covid-19 pandemic the artist succesfully established Ugress.TV, a regular livestreaming plattform, performing monthly concert shows in a series of 15 episodes, with 10 more episodes planned for season 2021/2022.

Scavenger Royale is released June 17th on Uncanny Planet Records, distributed by The Orchard. Releaseparty with full concert performance will livestream on Youtube June 17th at 20:00 CEST. Ugress performs live in Oslo 02.09, Stockholm 04.09. and Bergen 26.08.
Direct Artist Contact
- ugress@ugress.com
- http://www.ugress.com/
- Ugress on Twitter, Facebook, Soundcloud, Youtube, Instagram
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