Mirko Uhlig
Ambient / Experimental
Bonn/Germany
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About
Mirko Uhlig (*1981 in Aachen, Germany) is a German musician and producer in the contemporary field of drone and minimal ambient music and co-founder of Ex Ovo Records.
He first appeared with surreal sound collages and musique concrète-techniques under the moniker Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf (catching eels with a horse's head) around 2004. After releasing four albums and some EPs (on Aal, Einzeleinheit, Taalem, Mystery Sea and Drone Records) Uhlig decided to release his now much more minimalistic and serene works under a less delusive name.
Uhlig's music is inspired by pioneers of drone and minimalistic music such as La Monte Young, early Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, David Lynch, William Basinski and current Hafler Trio; echoing the blurred distance of a late Turner image.
"Uhlig plays a form of drone music that is highly refreshing. He creates something that is beyond the ordinary! For me Mirko Uhlig is one of the better and unfortunately lesser known drone masters of Germany." (Vital Weekly)
"Uhlig is one of the few ones able to cut the oneiric bliss of his creations right in the moment of maximum ecstasy." (Touching Extremes)
Beside various field recordings, the wooden sounds of an old acoustic six-string, a battered accordion and an original Indian shruti-box build the acoustic sources for the process of composing and letting go.
Mirko Uhlig currently lives in Bonn, Germany.
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Mar 15, 2009
Announcement for new 7" with N: "Sanddorn" (May 2009)
Sanddunes and sea buckthorn.
At the moment Mirko Uhlig and N are setting off together for the field trip.
First contact came about some initially anonymous disptach-coincidence at the end of 2006.
But before the grapes of (factual) collaboration get thrown under the …
Mar 15, 2009
Press release for "Supper"
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Horizon's old clouds! This is what I call a conceptual reference album. Not that it puts up any standards in some sort or being a reference for whatever or whoever, no - it simply deals with references of my listening past/present.
"Supper" can be seen (and maybe …
Mar 15, 2009
Recent reviews of "Supper"
By Unruhr (www.unruhr.de)
cover: im besten fall warnen die ja schon mal vor, was da drin ist. manchmal wirklich aus sich heraus, manchmal nur, weil mann / frau die band kennt und einordnen kann, was das jetzt soll.
dieses hier, grafisch schon was obskur, schickt …
m.m label, Mar 22:
m.m label, Jul 21, 2008:
Ich möchte natürlich noch mal auf meine gerelaunchte virb.-Seite hinweisen, ein paar neue Stücke gibt es auch im Player ... Lass mal wieder von dir hören Liebe Grüße Thorsten // Audio Architecture
m.m label, Jun 08, 2008:
Dein Alter Ego ist mir natürlich ein Begriff und ich höre die 7" die damals von dir bei Stefan Knappe rauskam, auch heute noch sehr gerne... auch wenn mein musikalischer Ansatz was Drones angeht, ein etwas anderer ist, hoffe ich du hast ein bisschen Kurzweil gehabt, genauso wie ich deine Seite sehr fesselnd finde. Einige deiner Stücke klingen ein wenig wie musikalische Untermalungen der Kinderserien, die ich damals immer schauen durfte... sehr schön, in diesem Sinne frohes Schaffen Thorsten // Audio Architecture
c l o u d, May 08, 2008:
Sending lights & dreams your way...
Kindly
M
Ars Macabre, Apr 13, 2008: