Harmonic Presents
Ben Frost
A U R O R A live
Button Factory
May 15th 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISTL9FPkUVI
Tickets priced €20.00 (Inc. booking fee) go on sale this Friday through www.tickets.ie, www.ticketmaster.ie & usual Ticketmaster outlets
A U R O R A is Ben Frost’s highly anticipated fifth solo release, his first since the widely acclaimed 2009 album BY THE THROAT. A U R O R A will be preceded by a series of live dates, including a visit to The Button Factory, Dublin May 15th & the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork May 16th .
A U R O R A is performed by Ben Frost with Greg Fox (ex-Liturgy), Shahzad Ismaily and Thor Harris (SWANS) and largely written in Eastern DR Congo. It is produced by Frost with Valgeir Sigurđsson, Paul Corley and Daniel Rejmer.
These lean, athletic visions seem to stand testament to a kind of survival - a proof of life. Muscular shapes maintained only to a level of functioning physical survival, of necessity, and no further; filthy, uncivilised, caked in sweat, and battery acid.
Starved of all the adornments of its predecessor; wholly absent of guitar, of piano, of string instruments and natural wooden intimacy, A U R O R A offers a defiant new world of fiercely synthetic shapes and galactic interference, pummelling skins and pure metals.
This is no pristine vision of digital music; but an offering of interrupted future time, where emergency flares illuminate ruined nightclubs and the faith of the dancefloor rests in a diesel-powered generator spewing forth its own extinction, eating rancid fuel so loudly it threatens to overrun the very music it is powering.
And so, is the ongoing evolution of Frost’s music, conceived as equally the observer, as the catalyst in this music, and harbinger of the idea that so often we think of beauty when in fact we should be thinking of destruction. The result, mixed in Reykjavík with Bedroom Community head Valgeir Sigurðsson, is a machined musical surface, evolved and refined, yet irrevocably damaged.
Curiously, darkness is expelled to the muddy sedge and a confusing irradiant glow permeates A U R O R A, where everything once wounded, remains fiercely animate and luminescent with charged destruction.
Born in 1980 in Melbourne, Australia, Ben Frost relocated to Reykjavík Iceland in 2005 and working together with close friends Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly, formed the Bedroom Community record label/collective.
His albums, including Steel Wound (2003), Theory of Machines (2007) and BY THE THROAT (2009) fuse intensely structured sound art with militant post-classical electronic music, shape-shifting physical power with immersive melody, concentrated minimalism with fierce, rupturing dark metal.
In 2010 he was chosen by Brian Eno as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protegé program for a year of collaboration, one of the outcomes of which was Sólaris; a re-scoring of the Tarkovsky classic for Poland’s Sinfonietta Cracovia (with Bedroom Community labelmate, composer Daníel Bjarnason). Since then, Eno and Frost continue to work together on a range of projects both in and outside of the recording studio.
Mute is delighted to announce the release of Ben Frost’s next record A U R O R A, out on 26 May 2014. This is Frost’s highly anticipated fifth solo release, his first since the widely acclaimed BY THE THROAT from 2009. A U R O R A - released in collaboration with Bedroom Community
http://www.ethermachines.com
http://www.facebook.com/harmonicpresents
Ben Frost
A U R O R A live
Button Factory
May 15th 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISTL9FPkUVI
Tickets priced €20.00 (Inc. booking fee) go on sale this Friday through www.tickets.ie, www.ticketmaster.ie & usual Ticketmaster outlets
A U R O R A is Ben Frost’s highly anticipated fifth solo release, his first since the widely acclaimed 2009 album BY THE THROAT. A U R O R A will be preceded by a series of live dates, including a visit to The Button Factory, Dublin May 15th & the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork May 16th .
A U R O R A is performed by Ben Frost with Greg Fox (ex-Liturgy), Shahzad Ismaily and Thor Harris (SWANS) and largely written in Eastern DR Congo. It is produced by Frost with Valgeir Sigurđsson, Paul Corley and Daniel Rejmer.
These lean, athletic visions seem to stand testament to a kind of survival - a proof of life. Muscular shapes maintained only to a level of functioning physical survival, of necessity, and no further; filthy, uncivilised, caked in sweat, and battery acid.
Starved of all the adornments of its predecessor; wholly absent of guitar, of piano, of string instruments and natural wooden intimacy, A U R O R A offers a defiant new world of fiercely synthetic shapes and galactic interference, pummelling skins and pure metals.
This is no pristine vision of digital music; but an offering of interrupted future time, where emergency flares illuminate ruined nightclubs and the faith of the dancefloor rests in a diesel-powered generator spewing forth its own extinction, eating rancid fuel so loudly it threatens to overrun the very music it is powering.
And so, is the ongoing evolution of Frost’s music, conceived as equally the observer, as the catalyst in this music, and harbinger of the idea that so often we think of beauty when in fact we should be thinking of destruction. The result, mixed in Reykjavík with Bedroom Community head Valgeir Sigurðsson, is a machined musical surface, evolved and refined, yet irrevocably damaged.
Curiously, darkness is expelled to the muddy sedge and a confusing irradiant glow permeates A U R O R A, where everything once wounded, remains fiercely animate and luminescent with charged destruction.
Born in 1980 in Melbourne, Australia, Ben Frost relocated to Reykjavík Iceland in 2005 and working together with close friends Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly, formed the Bedroom Community record label/collective.
His albums, including Steel Wound (2003), Theory of Machines (2007) and BY THE THROAT (2009) fuse intensely structured sound art with militant post-classical electronic music, shape-shifting physical power with immersive melody, concentrated minimalism with fierce, rupturing dark metal.
In 2010 he was chosen by Brian Eno as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protegé program for a year of collaboration, one of the outcomes of which was Sólaris; a re-scoring of the Tarkovsky classic for Poland’s Sinfonietta Cracovia (with Bedroom Community labelmate, composer Daníel Bjarnason). Since then, Eno and Frost continue to work together on a range of projects both in and outside of the recording studio.
Mute is delighted to announce the release of Ben Frost’s next record A U R O R A, out on 26 May 2014. This is Frost’s highly anticipated fifth solo release, his first since the widely acclaimed BY THE THROAT from 2009. A U R O R A - released in collaboration with Bedroom Community
http://www.ethermachines.com
http://www.facebook.com/harmonicpresents
