Hey. Who are we chatting with in Ulysses Wulf and what do you play in the band?
Yule Guttenbeil. I’m the singer and guitarist.
To the entirely uninitiated, give us a brief history lesson in Ulysses Wulf.
Ulysses Wulf grew out of my solo work. Vinny King was my bassist in NZ when I was performing and releasing music under my own name. Over time we began working on new material together and the whole thing became more collaborative.
For completely different reasons we both found ourselves living in Melbourne and formed the band last year when Christian Lee joined us as our drummer.
Tell us about your approaching EP, Like The Present. What’s the story behind it, and how’d you go recording it?
Like the Present was written when I was going through a terrible period of my life. I’d quit my job as a lawyer to help defend a family member in a case against a government body. I was doing it because it was the right thing to do, but I became disillusioned to find justice was unobtainable.
I felt that I was living in a dystopian society, where everything was polite and professional on the surface, but that was only a veneer used to mask the ugly dealings of those in power and give them an air of legitimacy. That’s where I got the title, Like The Present, as a reference to a current dystopia, in contrast to the futuristic ones we are usually presented with.
