City Canyons Records Adds Peter Ulrich To Roster

Posted by inanglia on 2005-01-28 21:25:00 (1451 views)

City Canyons Records is exceedingly proud to add Peter Ulrich, the noted percussionist from the legendary Dead Can Dance to its roster. His upcoming album Enter The Mysterium, scheduled for release on March 1, is a mixture of world music, art pop, dream pop, old music and darkwave.

Prior to Enter The Mysterium, Ulrich was perhaps best known for his long-time collaboration with Dead Can Dance, the fabulously creative band of the eighties that explored new frontiers of music. Ulrich joined the

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* Genre: Darkwave/Dream-Pop
* Label: City Canyons Records
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Listen to tracks from
Enter The Mysterium
(MP3)
Through Those Eyes
Flesh to Flame

Â group in 1983 and appeared on albums like Garden of Arcane Delights, Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun and Spiritchaser, and was a touring member of the group until 1990. He also collaborated on Ivo Watts-Russell's This Mortal Coil project, contributing the song "At First, And Then" to Filigree And Shadow, and also played with 4AD labelmates Michael Brook and the Wolfgang Press as an incidental percussionist.

Ulrich's Pathways & Dawns, released on Projekt Records in 1999, featured former Dead Can Dance bandmate Brendan Perry as a producer and arranger. Delighted reviewers of Pathways & Dawns compared Ulrich's work to medieval madrigals, baroque exotica, Todd Rundgren and Brian Eno all in the same sentence, a tribute to the infinite variety of Ulrich's music.

Enter The Mysterium is similarly diverse but with brilliant pop influences that should cause it, while losing none of its stunning originality, to appeal to a broader audience. Mysterium features words and music by Ulrich, vocals by Ulrich and Ulrich playing both traditional instruments and a selection of exotic instruments from all over the world. Ulrich's music in Mysterium music recalls "Dead Cab Dance" but has an an exotic flavor of its own, blending seamlessly an array of musical genres--darkwave, dream-pop, ancient and medieval, new age, world and ethnic-- into a lush tapestry.

But words cannot explain that music to understand it, you must enter Ulrich's world of light and shadow, a world of black and white magic, a world haunting, mysterious, sometimes frightening but in the end uplifting--a world powerfully mapped out in Ulrich's new album, Enter The Mysterium to be released under the City Canyons imprint in spring of 2005. Below are select songs from the album Enter The Mysterium--but be aware that you may never return to the world as you knew it once you have crossed into this new world's realm.

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