UByK hail from Los Angeles. They released a four-song demo entitled Work in the summer of '06 and promoted the material with several U.S. West Coast/Southwest Tours. They then went back into the studio w/ producer Alex Newport to record their debut EP Matryoshka released in April 2008 on Itunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Etunes, etc. They also released a stop motion video for the title track "Matryoshka"
and and experimental film for the song "Work".
Initially a two piece - Roman Bluem & Samantha Tobey - the band has since evolved and regularly features Roman & Samantha along with Swedish/LA transplant guitarist Pelle Hillstrom, veteran LA drummer Rich Sherwood, and Australian import Fox on Bass. The expanded lineup has been performing songs from the "Matryoshka" EP along with new material which they have been recording at Dodger Studiom with a planned release in Spring 2011.

PRESS QUOTES
The music is vaguely familiar yet, at the same time, otherworldly. This duo take commonly used tools, namely the acoustic guitar, some sprinklings of spacey synths and their harmonious vocals, and meld them into to a sound that is distinctively their own. - Angry Ape

This is more than the 70s, this is refreshingly 2008, at its acoustic best. While bringing out a sense of nostalgia in me, it also made me acutely aware I had not heard anything like this in some time. Its hippy laced, vibrant, meaningful and haunting at times, but never frightening. - lipstik bands

It's like the sounds of Syd if he'd been spending too long with his Kinks LPs.... It's stripped down psych to get lost in. It's quite obviously brilliant. As a whole, it's quite difficult to believe that Ubyk hail from America. They sound so... English.... and it's great. - Electric Roulette


THE STORY
UByK is the only BRAND available for humans to buy. Anywhere you go, there are UByK Bikes and UByK Jeans and UByK Dolls and even UByK Bazaars to sell them in. The corporation controls global commerce, EVEN music -- in the form of their own "House Band which they've branded, "UByK". As an audible extension of 60s/70s sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick (whose works inspired sci-fi films such as Scanner Darkly, Blade Runner, etcetera) and a close cousin of our reality, UByK is UByK, the band, and incidentally the corporation's most troublesome tenant. The band isn't "with the program", pursuing antithetical notions such as Individuality, Spirituality, and Artistic Expression -- determined to bring enlightenment to all in t