2008
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Monday 29
September, 22.00
K-Special SVT 2
Interview
A brand new Interview with "Rockis" in the July issue of the scandinavian guitarmagazine "Fuzz"!! Click Here!! for info!!
Gigs with Thåström!!
27th of june: Peace & Love Festival, Borlänge
28th of june: Zinkensdamms IP : Stockholm ( W / Kent)
25th of july: Slottskogsvallen: Gothenburg (W/ Kent)
10th of august:Beatday Festival: Copenhagen
18 april 08
Beatundercontrol!! Cosmic Repackage!! Releasedate: April 21st 2008
Since bursting into the world in the late ‘70s as a punk-driven bass evangelist, sweden’s Ulf “Rockis” Ivarsson has since been on a relentless voyage of musical discovery while paying his dues to pay the rent.... Through early ‘80s bands like the quiet, playing the blues with the Eivon boogie band, backing up swedish guitar hero Clas Yngstrom in his group sky high or a host of sessions, Ulf nurtured a growing desire to uncork an inner vision which sounded nothing like any of these lucratively-popular positions... after a stint with world music-techno marauders Hedningama, where he pioneered a new instrument called the bass mandora, Ulf took the plunge in the late ’90s and started Beatundercontrol... Conventional song structures went out the window as he explored his fixations with the mighty dub, noise and experimental music which knew no boundaries, emerging with widely acclaimed first album the introduction in 2003...
‘instead of writing banal three-minute songs with mindless expressions and meaning, i rather try to challenge myself through textures, noises and basslines,’ he explains... This philosophy is explored with often stunning results on Ulf’s second beatundercontrol album, cosmic repackage, a colossal aural menagerie of space-jazz brass themes and solo flights, subterranean pulses and dark-hued banks of strings which dart between european avant textures to late 60s hypno-drone alchemists the third ear band... it’s a heady brew, ranging from the nocturnal back alley jazz of neighbourterror blues to the intense freeform scattershots and coruscating atmospherics of "departure... if dub’s shadow looms over the album, notably on tracks like the bottomless fizz-bombs of interruption, it steps out and flashes its glorious sonic stiffie on the alien skank of subversion dub, albeit lashed with dissonance and howling winds... From punk rock to the outer limits, Ulf ivarrson has cause to celebrate quite a remarkable musical journey and does so with one of the year’s most intoxicatingly uncompromising aural statements...
Kris Needs 2008
12 April 08
King Hobo!! A new project featuring ”Rockis” on Bass!!
KING HOBO, the project featuring Jean-Paul Gaster (CLUTCH) and Per Wiberg (OPETH) alongside KAMCHATKA guitarist Thomas Juneor Andersson and Ulf Rockis Ivarsson (BEATUNDERCONTROL), will have its self-titled debut album for sale on the CLUTCH U.S. tour with KAMCHATKA starting April 9.
A collection of “merciless blues, funk, and rock and roll,” “King Hobo” includes two covers — “Running”, written by CURTIS MAYFIELD, and a stellar Freddie Hubbard version of WELDON IRVINE’s classic “Mr. Clean”. The album documents one week in Sweden when a small gathering traveling musicians threw their ingredients into the collective cauldron, enjoyed the meal, and then departed as quickly as they had come.
For more information, visit www.myspace.com/kinghobo
Performance list updated!! New Images uploaded!!
26 February 08
Berny Blue!!
A documentary movie with and about the author Berny Pålsson! Music composed by Ulf"Rockis"Ivarsson!
The movie about Berny Pålsson (The author of "En vingklippt ängel and "Känn pulsen slå") is finished!!
"Rockis" have written the music for the film and SVT (Swedish Television ) will broadcast the documentary on K Special 25th of april!!!
"Rockis" working as a producer for "Topper "and "The Scrags"
"Rockis" working in the studio as a producer for the swedish punkband
"Topper" and the marvelous Garage/Trashband "The Scrags"!! More info soon!!
Noise Hifi...A new Industrial Ambient project!!
Check out "Rockis" brand new Industrial Ambient project "Noise Hifi".. You can listen here....
10 January 08
Malicious Damage..New Record label for Beatundercontrol!
So... Finally..It is official that the London based record label "Malicious Damage" will release Beatundercontrol..s forthcoming album "Cosmic Repackage" in april 2008!! There is a Dub album under progression as well and that will be released in fall 2008! Malicious Damage is most known as the label who released the early Killing Joke stuff (First album, What..s this for..etc) and for the great artworks done by the labelowner Mr Mike Coles!
Today... Malicious Damage releasing albums by The Orb, Transit Kings ( Alex Patterson, Guy Pratt and Jim Cauty ex KLF) Belka & Strelka, Transmission (A really good project with Youth, Simon Tong ex The Verve and Big Paul Ferguson ex Killing Joke) Blues guitarist Bob Meyer, Analouge Mindfield, NIC (featuring Keith Levene ex PIL),Teledugnosis . Rootmasters.Etc!!
Im very happy to hook up with the great Mike Coles and the Malicious crew in London so check out Malicious Damage myspace page and their official site and support this real musiclover label
Click here and here
5 December 07
"Rockis" is currently composing and
recording music for a
TV documentary for SVT!!
More info soon!!
"Rockis" have finished 2 new
Beatundercontrol releases:
The full length album "Cosmic repackage" and the
Dub ep featuring Gaffaman!
More info soon about releasedates etc..
Thåström TXTR is out now, "Rockis" have done all the Music and lyrics analyzies in the book!!
Conny Nimmersjö,s new album "Skörheten och oljudet" featuring "Rockis" on bass!
K-Special SVT 2
Interview
A brand new Interview with "Rockis" in the July issue of the scandinavian guitarmagazine "Fuzz"!! Click Here!! for info!!
Gigs with Thåström!!
27th of june: Peace & Love Festival, Borlänge
28th of june: Zinkensdamms IP : Stockholm ( W / Kent)
25th of july: Slottskogsvallen: Gothenburg (W/ Kent)
10th of august:Beatday Festival: Copenhagen
18 april 08
Beatundercontrol!! Cosmic Repackage!! Releasedate: April 21st 2008
Since bursting into the world in the late ‘70s as a punk-driven bass evangelist, sweden’s Ulf “Rockis” Ivarsson has since been on a relentless voyage of musical discovery while paying his dues to pay the rent.... Through early ‘80s bands like the quiet, playing the blues with the Eivon boogie band, backing up swedish guitar hero Clas Yngstrom in his group sky high or a host of sessions, Ulf nurtured a growing desire to uncork an inner vision which sounded nothing like any of these lucratively-popular positions... after a stint with world music-techno marauders Hedningama, where he pioneered a new instrument called the bass mandora, Ulf took the plunge in the late ’90s and started Beatundercontrol... Conventional song structures went out the window as he explored his fixations with the mighty dub, noise and experimental music which knew no boundaries, emerging with widely acclaimed first album the introduction in 2003...
‘instead of writing banal three-minute songs with mindless expressions and meaning, i rather try to challenge myself through textures, noises and basslines,’ he explains... This philosophy is explored with often stunning results on Ulf’s second beatundercontrol album, cosmic repackage, a colossal aural menagerie of space-jazz brass themes and solo flights, subterranean pulses and dark-hued banks of strings which dart between european avant textures to late 60s hypno-drone alchemists the third ear band... it’s a heady brew, ranging from the nocturnal back alley jazz of neighbourterror blues to the intense freeform scattershots and coruscating atmospherics of "departure... if dub’s shadow looms over the album, notably on tracks like the bottomless fizz-bombs of interruption, it steps out and flashes its glorious sonic stiffie on the alien skank of subversion dub, albeit lashed with dissonance and howling winds... From punk rock to the outer limits, Ulf ivarrson has cause to celebrate quite a remarkable musical journey and does so with one of the year’s most intoxicatingly uncompromising aural statements...
Kris Needs 2008
12 April 08
King Hobo!! A new project featuring ”Rockis” on Bass!!
KING HOBO, the project featuring Jean-Paul Gaster (CLUTCH) and Per Wiberg (OPETH) alongside KAMCHATKA guitarist Thomas Juneor Andersson and Ulf Rockis Ivarsson (BEATUNDERCONTROL), will have its self-titled debut album for sale on the CLUTCH U.S. tour with KAMCHATKA starting April 9.
A collection of “merciless blues, funk, and rock and roll,” “King Hobo” includes two covers — “Running”, written by CURTIS MAYFIELD, and a stellar Freddie Hubbard version of WELDON IRVINE’s classic “Mr. Clean”. The album documents one week in Sweden when a small gathering traveling musicians threw their ingredients into the collective cauldron, enjoyed the meal, and then departed as quickly as they had come.
For more information, visit www.myspace.com/kinghobo
Performance list updated!! New Images uploaded!!
26 February 08
Berny Blue!!
A documentary movie with and about the author Berny Pålsson! Music composed by Ulf"Rockis"Ivarsson!
The movie about Berny Pålsson (The author of "En vingklippt ängel and "Känn pulsen slå") is finished!!
"Rockis" have written the music for the film and SVT (Swedish Television ) will broadcast the documentary on K Special 25th of april!!!
"Rockis" working as a producer for "Topper "and "The Scrags"
"Rockis" working in the studio as a producer for the swedish punkband
"Topper" and the marvelous Garage/Trashband "The Scrags"!! More info soon!!
Noise Hifi...A new Industrial Ambient project!!
Check out "Rockis" brand new Industrial Ambient project "Noise Hifi".. You can listen here....
10 January 08
Malicious Damage..New Record label for Beatundercontrol!
So... Finally..It is official that the London based record label "Malicious Damage" will release Beatundercontrol..s forthcoming album "Cosmic Repackage" in april 2008!! There is a Dub album under progression as well and that will be released in fall 2008! Malicious Damage is most known as the label who released the early Killing Joke stuff (First album, What..s this for..etc) and for the great artworks done by the labelowner Mr Mike Coles!
Today... Malicious Damage releasing albums by The Orb, Transit Kings ( Alex Patterson, Guy Pratt and Jim Cauty ex KLF) Belka & Strelka, Transmission (A really good project with Youth, Simon Tong ex The Verve and Big Paul Ferguson ex Killing Joke) Blues guitarist Bob Meyer, Analouge Mindfield, NIC (featuring Keith Levene ex PIL),Teledugnosis . Rootmasters.Etc!!
Im very happy to hook up with the great Mike Coles and the Malicious crew in London so check out Malicious Damage myspace page and their official site and support this real musiclover label
Click here and here
5 December 07
"Rockis" is currently composing and
recording music for a
TV documentary for SVT!!
More info soon!!
"Rockis" have finished 2 new
Beatundercontrol releases:
The full length album "Cosmic repackage" and the
Dub ep featuring Gaffaman!
More info soon about releasedates etc..
Thåström TXTR is out now, "Rockis" have done all the Music and lyrics analyzies in the book!!
Conny Nimmersjö,s new album "Skörheten och oljudet" featuring "Rockis" on bass!