Ulan Bator (band)
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| Ulan Bator | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Paris, France | |
| Genre(s) | Post-Rock | |
| Years active | 1993–present | |
| Label(s) | Jestrai Young God Dsa |
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| Website | Ulan Bator Archive | |
| Members | ||
| Amaury Cambuzat Olivier Manchion Alessio Gioffredi |
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| Former members | ||
| Franck Lantignac Matteo Dainese Manuel Fabbro Egle Sommacal |
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Ulan Bator is a French experimental post-rock band founded in 1993 by Amaury Cambuzat and Olivier Manchion. They got their name from Ulan Bator, the capital city of Mongolia. They create lengthy instrumental music with influence from industrial and krautrock bands like Can, Neu! and Faust.
[edit] History
" Amaury Cambuzat and Olivier Manchion plays together since 1987.
They've founded Ulan Bator in 1993 in Paris, while building a studio recording in a disused chalkmine. The drummer Franck Lantignac joined and they started to record in the chalkmine. They produced the 3 first albums ("Ulan Bator s/t", "2 Degrees", "Vegetale") together with Les Disques du Soleil du Soleil et de l'Acier.
In 1996 also starts a long relationship with legendary "art-errorists" Faust through a french tour (The first meeting by Zappi W. Diermaier, Jean-Hervé Péron, Olivier Manchion and Amaury Cambuzat has been just released as Collectif Met(z)/Faust").
Ulan Bator then performs in prestigious festivals as Les Transmusicales de Rennes, Roskilde... and is released in Italy (starting a long love story) by Cpi ("Polaire"and "Vegetale" releases, plus several tours sharing stages with CSI, Marlene Kuntz..), then signed to Sonica.
In 1999 Ulan Bator recorded its Ego:Echo (Young God Records), produced by Michael Gira (Swans, Angels of Light...) together with drummer Matteo Dainese. Later in 2002 was released "OK:KO" from the Ego:Echo tours and demo sessions.
Late 2001, Olivier left,... until the summer 2005, founding in the meantime Permanent Fatal Error (releasing "Law Speed" in 2004), performing live with Damo Suzuki (Can) -check out for the 2003 Paris concert released as "Hollyaris"-, recording with French Doctors, Bias! ...
During that period Ulan Bator as Amaury Cambuzat (with Dainese on drums, Manuel Fabbro on bass and Egle Sommacal on guitar) recorded "Nouvel Air", mixed by Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), and then (without Sommacal) then "Rodeo Massacre" (january'05), both released by Jestrai and performing like 200 gigs in Italy and France.
After a 4 years complete silence, Olivier and Amaury meet by "pure chance" at a Lantignac's performance.. and started to perform again together in june 2005 while becoming both Faust members, and invite Franck Lantignac for a special Ulan Bator reunion (original trio) for the avantgarde-festival (powered by Faust/Peron). Thenlater, in autumn '05, Amaury and Olivier did with FAUST a UK tour ("... In Autumn": a 3 cds Box + dvd by Dirter).
From there the following was quite obvious : The original nucleo was back again together, but only for a tour entitled "D-Struction" tour (jan/feb 2006 - Italy + Sloveny) : Cambuzat/Manchion/Lantignac. The 2nd chapter's been Cargo Culte, aka Ulan Bator Duo (Amaury + Olivier), touring late spring'06. The 3rd will be a new album to be recorded late 2006 with the new drummer Alessio Gioffredi (Dilatazione) "
source: Ulan Bator official website
[edit] Discography
Albums
- Ulan Bator (1995)
- 2 Degrees (1996)
- Vegetale (1997)
- Ego:Echo (2000)
- OK:KO (2002)
- Nouvel Air (2003)
- Rodeo Massacre (2005)
EPs
- D-Construction remixs (2000)
45RPM
- Ursula Minor (1996) split UB/etage34
- Echo#5 (2000) split UB/chevreuil
[edit] External links
Ulan Bator
- Ulan Bator's official website
- Ulan Bator's italian website
- MySpace
- YouTube (videos)
- Flickr (photo gallery)
- Ulan Bator at All Music Guide
- Rateyourmusic.com's Ulan Bator site
parallel projects
Amaury Cambuzat, Olivier Manchion
Olivier Manchion
Amaury Cambuzat
