Ulan Bator (band)
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Paris, France |
| Genres | Post-rock |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Jestrai, Young God, Dsa |
| Members |
Amaury Cambuzat Nathalie Forget Diego Vinciarelli Luca Andriola |
| Past members |
Olivier Manchion Alessio Gioffredi Franck Lantignac Matteo Dainese Manuel Fabbro Egle Sommacal |
Ulan Bator is a French experimental post-rock band founded in 1993 by Amaury Cambuzat and Olivier Manchion. They got their name from Ulan Bator, the capital city of Mongolia. They create lengthy instrumental music with influence from industrial and krautrock bands like Can, Neu! and Faust.
Amaury Cambuzat (vocals, guitar) and Olivier Manchion (bass) began to play together in 1987. While in Paris in 1993, they formed Ulan Bator with Franck Lantignac. They built a recording studio and recorded their first three albums there: "Ulan Bator", "2 Degrees", and "Vegetale". In 1996 they began a long relationship with Faust during a French tour. The first meeting of Zappi W. Diermaier, Jean-Hervé Péron (of Faust), Olivier Manchion and Amaury Cambuzat (of Ulan Bator) was recently released as Collectif Metz/Faust. Ulan Bator performed in prestigious festivals such as Les Transmusicales de Rennes and Roskilde. Their albums "Polaire"and "Vegtable" plus multiple live recordings were released in Italy by CPR. Afterwards, they signed to Sonica. In 1999, Ulan Bator recorded its Ego:Echo (Young God Records), produced inside Michael Gira (Swans, The Angels of Light) together with Matteo Dainese. Later in 2002 they released "OK:KO" from the Ego:Echo tours and demos.
In late 2001, Olivier Manchion left and would not return until 2005. In the meantime, he founded Permanent Fatal Error and released "Law Speed" in 2004. During that period Ulan Bator under the name Amaury Cambuzat (with Matteo Dainese on drums, Manuel Fabbro on bass and Egle Sommacal on guitar) recorded "Nouvel Air" and then (without Sommacal) "Rodeo Massacre" (January 2005), both released by Jestrai. During this time they performed around 200 shows in Italy and France.
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