...selections from "Every Man And Woman Is A Star" by Ultramarine. The album, released in 1991, is a marvelous, strange hybrid of music that reminds me of a very specific time in my life, as only music can do.
Ultramarine (still) are Ian Cooper and Paul Hammond, an English electronic music duo formed in 1989. This second album of theirs is often cited as the precursor to the folktronica music genre with the international online magazine Pop Matters saying that the album "fit right in with the psychedelic, ethereal 'ambient house' or 'chill out' music of acts like the Orb, KLF, and Aphex Twin," describing the duo as "nature-loving would-be hippies who [...] translated that pastoral ethos into music that was full of breezy, midtempo rhythms and shaded in with traditional instruments like violin and harmonica."
Indeed, the sounds and samples are heavily influenced by spirituality and the occult (the title is from a quote by occult writer Aleister Crowley from his "The Book of the Law"), and songs feature spoken word pieces from sources such as Native American storytellers (on the opening track "Discovery") and movement / trance-dance therapist Gabrielle Roth (on "Stella"). Music samples range from Echo and the Bunnymen's "The Cutter" to "One Of These Nights" by The Eagles.
https://ultramarine.uk.com/
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