Dystopian soundscapes weaving through insinuated actuality. A collection of paranoid realities, implied certainty through testimonies given freely, observed by ever watchful eyes, detected by attentive ears and committed to record.
.... It was at this moment he realised that he was actually living two parallel lives, he was living in both worlds simultaneously. The memory of the other had come back to him in that moment. On leaving the bathroom he was now on an alternative track. An alternative reality which was reflective of the one he had just occupied yet different, and that everyone in it was somehow artificial, unreal. They were dead and only he was alive...
UBEK (SUC02) UB + -ek, with UB being an initialism of Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (literally "Security Office").
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released February 24, 2017
Collected recordings from 1982-1989
All tracks by UBEK
Palberta's otherworldly "Bye Bye Berta" is distinct and varied in its challenging songwriting, but remarkably cohesive. Bandcamp Album of the Day Feb 14, 2017