Published
Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 10:40
- Bedroom Community will release a new soundtrack for the classic sci-fi film this November.
Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason have composed a new score to the classic sci-fi film Solaris, due for release in November.
Directed by visionary Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris is far from the average sci-fi flick: it's a subtle, psychological film that contemplates grief and human memory over a slow-burning 165 minutes. It debuted at Cannes in 1972 and became a critical and commercial success, both in Europe and the USSR, and remains a cult classic today.
Frost and Bjarnason's score was originally commissioned for last year's Unsound Festival in Poland. The two artists are a likely choice for this kind of project: Frost is the noisy experimental producer behind 2009's By the Throat, and Bjarnason is a classical composer who has worked with Sigur Ros. The duo improvised while watching the film to come up with the basis for their score, then made the final product using recordings of harps, piano and a string orchestra as source material. Solaris will come out on Bedroom Community, the label Frost runs with Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly.
Tracklist
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
Bedroom Community will release Solaris on November 7th, 2011.