Mysterious Island, by Universalfilter (feat. Biggles, Tim & Puma Mimi, Kid Schurke)

Mysterious Island

by Universalfilter (feat. Biggles, Tim & Puma Mimi, Kid Schurke)

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	1.	The Storm of 1865 06:01
	2.	At the Summit of the Cone 01:10
	3.	Regulating the Watches 06:31
	4.	Traps Foxes Peccaries 00:52
	5.	Journey to the Coast 07:57
	6.	Inexplicable Mystery 01:25
	7.	Last Moments of Captain Nemo 06:23
	8.	An Isolated Rock in the Pacific 04:12
	9.	Bonus Track: The Mist Rises 04:26

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Looking down from David Bowie's space capsule you can see her. Our blue planet, bathed by her oceans. On one of these people are drowning. On another one there's an island, home to a volcano and an odd orange coloured mushroom of gigantic proportions. It smells of great promise while poisonous to our stomachs. Whoever takes a bite will turn into a giant and will trample all creation with his monstrous feet.

But maybe the volcano will act quicker than that. It already seems to start seething.

Welcome to «Mysterious Island». The place where Universalfilter are sitting on a shore, tossing a letter in a bottle into the sea. The bottle is filled with the island's exotic sounds. In order to find those sounds, Universalfilter have felt the pulse of that faraway place and have listened to its plasterer bees' galvanic hum. They have even managed to capture Captain Nemo's final breath.

Universalfilter dig their feet deep into the sand while a dog keeps barking into a hole. «Can there be any good world populated by mankind?», they ask the dog. The only answer however is given them by the seething volcano, opening up and spilling its hot contents across the island.

David Bowie is watching this eruption from his space capsule. Soon Earth will lose her blue colour. Soon she will glow in firey hues.
Soon she will be orange.
Strangeland.

Universalfilter are musicians of various backgrounds:
Tim, one half of a popular J-Pop/Electronica duo. Biggles, a rather psychedelic sounding singer/songwriter who already released several albums – juggling krauty and bowieesque moments with gusto. And Kid Schurke, rooted somwhere in between Punk, Electronica and Synth Nerdism. Most of the days he's remixing and producing happily away.

Stylistically Universalfilter love to drift from Drone to krauty Ambient, done on analogue Synths, some oldschool curiosities, guitars, treated pianos, the occasional vocal line and even some steeldrum.

While playing mainly live initially, Universalfilter began recording in the studio a while ago. Those sessions resulted in «Mysterious Island», inspired by Jules Vernes and the current state of the USA.

VITAL WEEKLY: It is certainly worthwhile, intelligent modern alternative pop music. Do check this out. (FdW)

credits

released March 4, 2019

Music: Universalfilter
Biggles: Lyrics, Composition, Vocal, Guitar, Piano, Omnichord
Tim & Puma Mimi: Steel Drums, Monochord, Volca Beats
Kid Schurke: Monotribe

Speech samples by Mark F. Smith:
librivox.org/the-mysterious-island-by-jules-verne/
techsmiths.blogspot.com

Production, Mix & Mastering: Twinkler, Manu Baker
stu-stu-studio.ch

universalfilter.org
biggles.ch
timpuma.ch
schurke.ch

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