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Ben Frost, Daníel Bjarnason

Sólaris

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Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason are two composers used to shrugging off the distinction between experimental sound-art and deeply felt melodies. frost's vast, blackened post-industrial works often crystallize in moments of quiet beauty before disintegrating in pure visceral noise; bjarnason's orchestral music marries brutal modernism to classical aesthetics one moment and soaring ethereal harmonies the next. and yet here, on the tail of two widely acclaimed releases; bjarnason's processions and frost's by the throat, we are given something all together new. a unique collaboration, sólaris is a quiet, stilled and all consuming symphonic suite at once as affecting and uncanny as the science- fiction classic that inspired it. the power of andrei tarkovsky's solaris is not in its futuristic sets, or in the hypnotic shots of the alien planet's weird, fluid surface, but it's in the way the auteur juxtaposes his alien, futuristic elements against the intimately familiar.
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Cat. number: HVALUR 12CD
Year: 2011
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Sinfonietta Cracovia: Maciej Lulek, Małgorzata Szuba-Kmiecik, Marcin Kmiecik, Aleksandra Honcel, Katarzyna Blajda, Marcin Hałat, Izabela Szlachta-Dowgiałło, Piotr Marciak, Robert Milewski, Danuta Brandys, Justyna Duda-Krane, Danuta Augustyn, Lilianna Adamska, Stanisław Słowiński, Ewa Szczepańska-Chwast, Aneta Dumanowska, Ryszard Sneka, Rafał Daszkiewicz, Żanna Laszkiewicz, Jan Tomala, Tomasz Wyroba, Alina Dorożyńska, Marcin Mączyński, Jan Kalinowski, Beata Urbanek-Kalinowska, Piotr Bylica, Michał Skiba, Grzegorz Klimczak, Jakub Strycharz, Ryszard Haba, Tomasz Sobaniec

Styling Ellen Loftsdóttir
Make up Steinunn Þórðardóttir
Art department Heimir Sverrisson

Commissioned and Produced by Mat Schulz and Gosia Plysa for Unsound Festival / Fundacja Tone, Krakow, Poland
Assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body
Made possible with the support of "I, CULTURE" - The International Cultural Programe of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council, Co-ordinated by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland - and S.T.E.F, Iceland

Thankyou
Mat Schulz and Gosia Plysa, Niamh Burke-Neff, Rafał Nowicki and all at Unsound Festival, Chris Woods, Olaf Bohn and all at Ableton, Tim Hecker, Lawrence English, Nicolas Bohnet and all at Rolex, Brian Eno, Nadia Sirota, Jerzy Madeja, Cupcake Corner Krakow, Hildur Maral Hamiðsdóttir, Petter Ekman, Mulla Bing, Andy Rantzen