Plays the Music
Featuring Michael Caffrey, Brian Damage, Alex Moskos
CD: No Type (2005) IMNT 0514
Radio No Type:
1 Tomorrow Never Knows
2 SuperGravity
3 U Feel Love (aka “I Feel Love”)
4 Daemon Bubbles
5 Transparent Radiation
6 20 Rats at Once
7 Brainticket
8 Plays the Music
There are two kinds of people who will want this CD. First, there are those who are already familiar with The Unireverse. Those connoisseurs should only need to know that this, finally, is the band’s debut CD (following, true enough, a pristine pile of limited edition CDRs), that it contains four favourites from their numerous live performances as well as four unreleased jams, & that the whole thing sounds amazing, thanks to the band’s rich & meticulous production, complemented by Paul Dolden’s all-knobs-up mastering. Not to mention the priceless cover art by Montréal cartoonist Rupert Bottenberg.
As for those who don’t know The Unireverse… Well, are they in for a surprise. Imagine three guys who just wanted to infuse all the science-fiction they could muster into their music. Imagine that their instruments consisted in a bunch of analog synthetisers & some drum machines which they play in total fizzed-up/fuzzed-out fashion. And be warned: they like to make covers of famous songs. As well as ones you might have never heard of before. Not that they’re going to snub you if it happens to be the first time you hear that Brainticket song, for instance. (Though they’ll probably consider their mission accomplished if it makes you want to hunt down the original.)
With The Unireverse, past & future collide into a musical uchronia, the island of Montréal is towed away in the vicinity of Saturn, & in the process, the most wholesome stoner album we have heard in a long time is yours to behold. Trust me. These guys are for real. [dt, viii-05]
… a very analog, electronic setting with a psychedelic touch.
Stefan Koopmanschap, Electronic Music World (Netherlands)
… des fréquences sonores captées au beau milieu de l’espace interstellaire.
Solénoïde (France)
Just simply great, witty and to cherish.
Frans de Waard, Vital (Netherlands)
Recommended but play with caution.
Bart Plantenga, wReck thiS MeSS (Netherlands)
… a spiced-up, modern, bass-heavy sound…
Hainey Kevin, Exclaim! (Canada)
… a portal into the collective mind madness of these sound technicians.
Steve Lalla, Hour (Québec)
The Unireverse is a psychedelic Moog rock project comprised of Alex Moskos (ex member of the experimental rock band Kubelka), Brian Damage (ex member of Phÿcus), and Michael Caffrey (of Daydream Square and ex member of Beautifuzz). → Full bio
June 10, 2007
the things we do for you… yep, we heard you, we know you can’t get enough napalm jazz, you can’t get enough from this blessed (by satan) era where we played big mean noise on CKIA in quebec city, without caring much about the ears of our listeners or of neighbours. an era which, like an old, mite-infested roll of film, we have recovered for a mix entitled cassettes 1999-2000. cassette tapes, as the youngest among you might not know, were he recording medium of choice for weirdos like us. that was before everyone bought a CDR burner & started recording pretty much everything they did, without selection or economy. an era of wisdom. → Continued…
July 18, 2005
suffocating heat & the good old montreal smog have prevented us to update this page up til now but those who know us know it was only a matter of time… because, yes, after a few months wait, it is finally time to announce the imminent release of the debut CD of montrealers The Unireverse! → Continued…
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