Ur Audio-Visual

12/11/2023

30% off any ur purchase with the promo code “moving” for the next 3 days!

23/10/2023

It's moving time! Help us lose some weight and use the promo code "moving" to get 30% off of any purchase from the Ur website (available until Nov. 15th)! Also, feel free to take advantage of our Mystery Bundle of four cassettes for $25!

Ur Mystery Bundle from ur audio visual

25/06/2023

Such a nice review of Trees of Mystery from With a Messy Head! "All you have to do is let yourself go with the immersive and open air music of this new and beautiful album"

Plongée dans les échos forestiers et l'humidité clapotissante, la folk psychédélique de Man Meets Bear qui a récemment sorti Trees Of Myster...

04/06/2023

Trees of Mystery. Ur 51. Man meets Bear.

15 track album

05/05/2023

Out today! Ur's 50th release since we started this thing back in 2015! Take Josh Thorpe's new album Honey for a little spin https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-050-honey
And if you're around, come pick up one of the few cassettes made for this one at the Tranzac in Toronto tonight!

6 track album

26/04/2023

New video from Gold Valley Bench!

'Waiting for the Wave' is from the album 'Raining in Avon' by Gold Valley BenchOut on Undergrowth Records - 19th April 2023https://goldvalleybench.bandcamp.c...

04/03/2023

Out today! Ur 49 - Raining on Avon by Gold Valley Bench. https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-049-raining-on-avon

Gentle folk meandering somewhere between the west coast of England and the western US, somehow both grounded and flowing with the river that carries its name.

18/12/2022

So here we are again. It’s December, and year end lists are flying around like shrapnel. Due to the inherent subjectivity of music it’s always interesting to see what people have made o…

11/12/2022

Naoto Kawate's incredible album Clay was released almost exactly a year ago, but due to pandemic-times shipping restrictions between Japan and Canada we weren't able to actually sell these cassettes... until now! These cassettes have taken a long, winding route from Kyoto to Toronto over this past year, but I'm so excited to be finally able to share them with everyone! https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-040-clay

06/12/2022

Just in time for gift giving needs! Introducing the Ur Mystery Bundle - four mystery cassettes for just $25!

Ur Mystery Bundle from ur audio visual

02/12/2022

New album out today from Crystal Shipsss, the experimental project of Denmark's Jacob Faurholt! Put on some tea and dive into these nine lo-fi gems... https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-048-sanctuary

07/10/2022

Eight years in the making! Excited to be finally releasing the debut album of Ecotone, an ambient project I started with Mike Mucci of Guelph (also one of my all-time favourite musicians)! https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-047-littoral

Each of the songs are best imagined as collections of tiny waves at the edge of a small lake, dancing and undulating hypnotically, modulating slowly with the light, maybe as it passes through the leaves of a poplar overhead, occasional flickers of something moving under the surface as well, always the same and never quite the same either.

05/10/2022

From the album 'Insignifiance' released in august 2022 on tape on Ur Audio-Visual recordings.https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-045-insignifiance

03/10/2022

Nice new review of Nadja's album Labyrinthine on Disagreement! "Fans of extreme doom metal and of course drone aficionados should consider this an essential addition to their collections" http://www.disagreement.net/reviews2022/nadja_labyrinthine.html

https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-046-labyrinthine

4 track album

11/09/2022

Great review of "Labyrinthine" in the latest The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music (the one w/ Lucrecia Dalt on the cover) by Leah Kardos who says this about the title track (w/ Alan Dubin on vocals):

"[R]esembles Iggy And The Stooges played at quarter speed, 100 feet tall and covered in molasses."

DL/CDs available from our Bandcamp page (link in comments). Cruel Nature Records & WV Sorcerer Productions tape editions sold out, but others still available from ADAGIO830 (DE) Muzan Editions (JP) Ur Audio-Visual (CA) Katuktu Collective (US) (AUS) Bad Moon Rising 惡月上昇 (TN)

09/09/2022

Joined by a quartet of guest vocalists – from Gnaw, Esben and the Witch, Elizabeth Colour Wheel and Full of Hell – the Berlin-based duo sound more terrifying than ever, finds JR Moores

06/09/2022

Out today! Ur Audio-Visual's 46th release, and limited-edition cassette, Labyrinthine by Nadja!

4 track album

02/09/2022

New Ur cassette pre-order out today - "Littoral" is the first album from Ecotone, the experimental ambient project of M. Mucci (https://tallhouserecordingco.bandcamp.com/) and Soren Brothers (https://manmeetsbear.bandcamp.com/). Recorded from 2016 to 2022 in Guelph, Toronto, and Logan Utah. Take a listen! https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-047-littoral

7 track album

31/08/2022

Just released the second ever Ur Compilation, available for free download and streaming on our bandcamp. These tracks were almost all released during the first years of the pandemic, and so I felt they captured a special time in the label, bringing new connections together from around the world, where so many people were going through so many similar experiences and emotions. It felt like a good time to capture it, and I hope you enjoy this compilation as much as I've enjoyed putting it together. https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-compilation-2

16 track album

26/08/2022

https://soundcloud.com/ur-audio-visual/carton-sonore-les-vers?si=9c458ddaec3b4436bba97595c13b26dc&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

From Ur 045 - Insignifiance by Carton Sonore. Out August 20th, 2022 on Ur Audio-Visual.

20/08/2022

New album out today! Check out Insignifiance by Carton Sonore, from Paris! https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-045-insignifiance

Ever since Pierre sent me this low-fi psychedelic folk kaleidoscopic gem of an album I've had it on repeat, and just keep on spiraling deeper and deeper into it. So excited to finally share it with everyone else!

26/07/2022

Pre-order out today for an upcoming UR cassette release, Labyrinthine, by the legendary Nadja!

23/07/2022

It's true! The latest Ur cassette release is just around the corner!

New album "Insignifiance"
Out on cassette on 20th of august
on Ur Audio-Visual

04/03/2022

Two years ago, while visiting some friends in LA, I heard about a local legend who lived on the beach in Malibu and gave out tapes of his music to anyone interested. I was able to get his email, and told him I'd be interested in putting out a collection of his songs on Ur... he asked for my address in Toronto, and a couple months later I received this album in the mail - I think, all recorded straight to cassette in one night, apparently in the last night in his empty home, as he was being evicted. I haven't heard from him since, and his email has been deactivated. If anyone knows what's happened to Doug, please let me know.
https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-044-goddamn-its-malibu

9 track album

12/02/2022

new album out today! Check out Return to the Lane, by longtime Ur friends the White Funz! https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-043-return-to-the-lane

Recorded in Exeter about a year ago, Return to the Lane is something of a follow-up to the duo's Welcome to the Lane from ten years ago - a kaleidoscopic whirlwind vision of stories and mythologies.

12 track album

22/01/2022

Ur 42 Is now out in the world! https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-042-gravity-season

Our second release by the incredible Leon Patriz, this new album (to quote their own album description) falls somewhere between shoe-gazing and star-gazing. It's an overgrown garden peppered with juicy morsels, and worthy of many a spin, and a deep, deep dive.

13 track album

18/01/2022

Island Hopping with Leon Patriz (so soon!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv4_luDrwSk

Island Hopping by Leon PatrizGravity SeasonUR audiovisual 2022Video by B. Caron and E. Versteruraudiovisual.bandcamp.comleonpatriz.bandcamp.com

07/01/2022

So excited to be releasing our 41st album & cassette today, "I've Never Met a Stranger" by Toronto's legendary Picastro! https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-041-ive-never-met-a-stranger

It's an EP bringing together five covers, and a ton of collaborations - feeling a bit like the return to community and togetherness that has been in such a strange flux these past couple years. There's also a video premiere with the album here (https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/01/06/picastro-ive-never-met-a-stranger/?fbclid=IwAR0y3G2y_j67zOdD9sib0wT46IyungSAt4oL2YiM-_Xa3oB4jKJ66wiR-xs) for the track "Hangman" - enjoy!!

Toronto’s Picastro first emerged in the mid 1990s as the slowcore indie-rock outlet of songwriter Liz Hysen. In the intervening decades, she has welcomed a rotating cast of collaborators, released a pair of albums with Polyvinyl, and maintained a cult following through a steady drip of downcast so...

31/12/2021

https://soundcloud.com/ur-audio-visual/naoto-kawate-how-to-finish-a-bottle-of-wine?si=3de2bc7dbd2944ab89096b0fb1deac2c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

From Ur 040 - Clay by Naoto Kawate. Out November 19th, 2021 on Ur Audio-Visual.

29/12/2021

Great article about Picastro's new EP, being released on Ur next month! https://exclaim.ca/music/article/picastro_covers_ep_velvet_underground_elfin_saddle_the_silt_owen_pallett

Picastro may go down in history as Toronto's best-known secret. The ever-morphing folk-rock brainchild of Liz Hysen has steadily delivered m...