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Luke Altmann

Iron Winter - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (LP)

Label: De La Catessen

Format: LP

Genre: Experimental

Preorder: Releases August 9th 2025

€31.50
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De la Catessen Records proudly presents the original soundtrack for Iron Winter by Port Adelaide based composer Luke Altmann in a hand-numbered vinyl edition of 250 copies.

*250 copies limited edition* The cinematic documentary Iron Winter, directed by Kasimir Burgess, follows two young herdsmen from the Tsakhir Valley in their quest to keep their community’s herd of 2000 horses alive through Mongolia's harshest winter. The temperature regularly falls below -40℃ as they drive their herd into the mountains in search of pastures under the snow. As deteriorating climatic conditions make winter herding even more gravely dangerous, and the city lures away the young people, this ancient traditional rite of passage has nearly entirely disappeared. 

Through Iron Winter’s score the Mongolian landscape shimmers and shivers with harmonics. Endless snowscapes glisten and swish, but stress and upheaval are also evident in the score’s ominous murmurs. The tremors of imminent environmental and cultural collapse can be felt in the distant creak and clatter of the unseen, while tradition groans under the weight of obligation resting upon fewer and fewer shoulders. But to the sound of a mysterious reveille the herders and their horses are pulled irresistibly deeper into the mountains, exacerbating their vulnerability to dire cold and starvation, to the accompaniment of the
howling wolves of the steppe.

Details
Cat. number: DLC021
Year: 2025