Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason - Solaris 2011

here's a review i found that i dont really understand:

"Lots of wax and wane in Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason’s Solaris. It’s cold, not cold in a small pinched way, but cold in long flows, like streams of very contemplative melted snow running across a fairly level plain and never meeting. A stream starts off, thinking that it’s going somewhere, but then it reaches that place, or doesn’t, and the place is disappointing, and it drains away with a moan. Other sonic streams are running concurrently and doing the same. The two composers were inspired by the Tarkovsky film, hence the inward focus of the sounds, their isolation from one another, the grieving and the fading, the subtle repetition—the music remembering itself. It’s in the minimal amount of color of the sound-scape. Frost and Bjarnason took a string orchestra, let’s say that’s the snow; they fed it through a computer, there’s the melt."

- http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/150219-ben-frost-daniel-bjarnason-solaris


but im still listening to celestine and wishing the hindenburg would crash into my house.

cute cover, and all songs should be named 'you mean more to me than any scientific truth'.

also this, because my opportunities to do this are limited. just wait for the tape hiss.




01 – We Don’t Need Other Worlds, We Need Mirrors
02 – Simulacra I
03 – Simulacra II
04 – Snow
05 – Reyja
06 – Cruel Miracles
07 – Hydrogen Sulfide
08 – Unbreakable Silence
09 – You Mean More To Me Than Any Scientific Truth
10 – Saccades
11 – Venia

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