ulu by Evil Gima

With four records in the bag, Evil Gima has slowly and quietly (or loudly) made a name for itself as the boundary-pushers on the FFRSD roster. Evil Gima's music is the aural equivalent of laying on a beautiful bed with foam and comfy blankets but the bed is floating on hot bubbling lava. This river of lava also has a cliff coming up that it will spill over.

While overall Evil Gima's music tends to be on the experimental and ambient side, it's often presented with a sense of melody or lyricism rare in those genres. Evil Gima often buries melodies in the middle of huge sonic soundscapes and plucks moments of humor in even the darkest experimental pieces. Half the time, their music can lull a listener into a state of sleepiness and the other half jolt them wide awake from a pulsing depth charge.

Ulu is a tour-de-force in ambient experimental sound. The songs themselves are huge sonic soundscapes of intense pulsating granular rhythms. In many cases, there is no sound that is recognizable. It was created using a number of different sound design modules and hyped to sound good at 85dB.

Ulu is adventerous! This isn't your suger-coated candy pop, feel good, I'm-the-king-of-the-world type of music. It's a trip for those sonic searchers that are willing to listen to music with scruity and stoicism. Are you one of the few and proud?

Record Label: Ambient and experimental, film soundtracks, indie-folk, indie-rock, electronic, solo piano, solo guitar, more.

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