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...forgive me for singing

This is a page dedicated to my solo project MK_ultra

MK_ultra was formed in 2007 out of the Berlin based electronic Band Mr. & Mrs.T. It's strange sounds and socio-political issues make it a 'not so easy listening', quasi experimental Band. MK_ultra has also the habit of producing one video per song and put them on line for free. The whole album "The Rift" is therefore 'visible' on i.e. YouTube (see below).

CD cover for "The Rift" by MK_ultra

MK_ultra's composer and sole performer Enkidu rankX says about his album: "The Rift":

"In the summer of 2007 I began working on a solo project called MK_ultra. It's aim was to produce a CD & DVD with 9 songs / clips that would manifest a deep feeling of concern for the world we live in and it's issues. The result was the collection of songs called "The Rift". The different songs deal with such various subjects like:

• the feeling of an emerging rift in our societies ("The Rift" & "The Rift reprise")
• nuclear pollution of beautiful places ("seagulls on a beach of litter")
• freedom as a question of the state of mind you're in (very much Sartre there with "X")
• the beauty of the world from the vastness of space to the tiniest spark of life ("space dusk")"

From this album on MK_ultra went on and is now a full fledged band and is in preparation to release it's second album called "Mind the Gap".

You can buy the record or listen to the songs and watch the clips here.

http://www.lastfm.de/music/mk_ultra/The+Rift

http://www.amazon.de/dp/B001QTGWHY/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_Irl8nb0ZJJ0VH

I hope you can enjoy some of this material, for it is very personal in many respects.

The cover for the album has been designed by Alexander Tibus and Maki Shimizu. I can't thank them enough for the beautiful work they did for this (no-budget) project. So let me show you some of the illustration that went into the booklet...

Also I would like to thank Thiemo Blube for helping with the mix and master stuff and Sulamith Sallmann for helping in putting together the videos (thanx for great research) and providing me with great photos. Also, I had helb by Jana Jürk for cutting "The Rift" the video... Thank you for believing in this project!

httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=81B46F43FB2D276C

Illustration by Maki Shimizu

Illustration by Maki Shimizu

Illustration by Maki Shimizu

Illustration by Maki Shimizu

Illustration by Maki Shimizu

space dusk

Illustration by Enkidu rankX