PROCESSION OF TALKING MIRRORS

TRACKLIST A1. Father Earthquake (7:13) A2. Now The Fire Worries About The Amounts Of Wood It Needs To Put Out (6:57) A3. Plague Pillow (7:09) B1. Procession Of Talking Mirrors (9:03) B2. He Will Drink The Milk Of A Thousand Mother (3:20) B3. The Lost Wooden Planet Script (6:43) PREVIEW https://soundcloud.com/audiomer-music/lost-wooden-planet-script The person behind Urpf Lanze is Belgian visual artist Wouter Vanhaelemeesch (B), who is mainly known for his large-scale ink drawings that offer a hermetic blend of weirdo characters, medieval iconography and surrealist decors. His artwork started gaining some attention a few years ago when renowned avant-garde lutenist Jozef Van Wissem (NL) started using Vanhaelemeesch's work to decorate many sleeves of his recorded output, including his collaborations with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (US), noise legends Smegma (US), free folkband United Bible Studies (IE) and fingerpicker James Blackshaw (UK). Next to doing exhibitions in places like Tokyo, New York and Paris, his drawings appear regularly in zines and underground publications all over the world. He also runs the audioMER label together with designer Jeroen Wille (BE) and has provided artwork for records by Jack Rose (US), Robbie Basho (US), Mauro Antonio Pawlowski (BE), Cian Nugent (IE), Graveyards (US), Second Family Band (US) and many others. Urpf Lanze is the moniker of his rather unorthodox solo guitar project, under which he has been playing for several years now. With an acoustic guitar that lays flat on his lap, tuned to unwieldy scales, he brutalises the instrument in an oddly musical way. As if this wasn't enough he lays down some vocal work that goes from ventriloquist-like whines and mumbles to deep and guttural grunts. The result is a rather unhinged and demented music. Imagine the rawness of Bill Orcutt, the more frightening sides of Loren Mazzacane Connors and the absurd stylings of Wilburn Burchette all wrapped into a Lovecraftian sonic nightmare. 'Procession of Talking Mirrors' is his first full lenght solo album. Recorded live on a 4-track tape recorder, these 6 tracks offer a mixture of Japanese folk music, free psych, scratchy delta-blues recordings, damaged lo-fi and aggressively percussive fingerpicking. While some tracks may carry a more melancholy tone, others seem closer to acoustic death metal than than any kind of folk music. However you may describe it, it is most definetly not a record for the faint of heart. Urpf Lanze has performed all over Europe and played several editions of the Jozef van Wissem curated 'New Music For Old Instruments' festival. He is also featured on the recently issued 'New Music For Old Instruments' compilation CD. Next to that he has recorded a live session for Dutch radioshow VPRO's Dwars in 2011. In 2011 Morc Records put out a split tour EP of Urpf Lanze together with Silvester Anfang ofshoots Hellvete (BE) and Edgar Wappenhalter (BE). Some choice words about his featured track here: Attributed to a single individual on guitar, the percussive guitar work and incomprehensible, cathartic vocals (disembodied and peculiar, the only generic signifier perhaps being traditional forms of throat singing) represent this artist™s first recorded work under this pseudonym. The material accompanying the record classifies the piece as ˜outsider folk™, appropriately citing Bill Orcutt™s solo work as precedent. But the track extends beyond this attribution into genuine anti-folk, not in a trite generic sense, but in a resistance to notions of tradition and lineage and rejection of endless Takoma School debates. The repeating, overlapping finger-picked phrases, merging, shifting in volume and intensity and sporadically subjected to abrupt re-tunings (the accumulated pressure suddenly abating as the guitar pegs are wrenched as if he despises the thing) is a sound of genuine guitar ˜otherness™; a distinctly atypical approach to an instrument with such historical baggage. Brutally repetitive, the physical, visceral process on display, the deconstruction of technique and negation of assumptions about the capabilities of the guitar, all resonate with an exhausting exertion and sense of unfettered release that bodes well for an upcoming LP release. - Foxy Digitalis Urpf Lanze's tune 'The Wandering Sick' is surprisingly engaging, the chiming resonance of battered strings zinging off on some bent trajectory into your face is quite thrilling, the whole thing coming off like some fucked psych-folk experiment that, despite the discordance, becomes quite tripped-out & meaningful. - Norman Records www.audiomer.org www.discogs.com/artist/Urpf+Lanze Urpf Lanze quotes: 'The exhilarating feeling of a technically talented artist casting the rules down a deep and mosscovered well, at once musically potent and deliciously unhinged, far more grubby than its genre classification might suggest.'  Scrolldust http://scrolldust.com/2013/03/12/urpf-lanze-procession-of-talking-mirrors/ 'A gruesome scene of guitars being torn to shreds by tornado-like fingers' - Tiny Mixtapes Chocolate Grinder http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-urpf-lanze-lost-wooden-pla net-script 'Deconstructed blues... Intense and raw... this will surely make my best of the year list' - Mr. Bungle http://www.mrbungle.nl/2013/03/06/urpf-lanze-procession-of-talking-mirrors/ ' Urpf Lanze has created an incomparable universe that consists of postapocalyptic and nihilistic mantra's' - Kindamuzik http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/urpf-lanze/procession-of-talking-mirrors/237 69/ ' This music falls somewhere between Jozef Van Wissem, Jack Rose, James Blackshaw, Bill Orcutt, Charlie Parr, Catherine Christer Hennix, Huun-Huur-Tu, Loren Mazacane Conners and Boduf Songs but most of all makes for a very personal surreal universe' - De Subjectivisten http://www.subjectivisten.nl/caleidoscoop/2013/03/urpf-lanze-procession-of-talk ing-mirrors.html