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FROST, BEN - A U R O R A

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Mute - XSTUMM368 Release Year: 2024 Note: very limited 10th anniversary re-issue of the 5th solo album from this Australo-Icelandic composer, on RED vinyl! - *A U R O R A aims directly, through its monolithic construction, at blinding luminescent alchemy; not with benign heavenly beauty but through decimating magnetic force.* - only 300 copies for Europe, comes with bonus DL track Price (incl. 19% VAT): €35.00 More Info 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 aims directly, through its monolithic construction, at blinding luminescent alchemy; not with benign heavenly beauty but through decimating magnetic force. This is no pristine vision of digital music, it is a filthy, uncivilized 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. credits released May 26, 2014 Performed by Ben Frost with Shahzad Ismaily, Greg Fox and Thor Harris. Production Executed by Ben Frost, Paul Corley, Valgeir Sigurðsson and Daniel Rejmer. Additional Sound Designs and Production by Lawrence English and Tim Hecker. Recorded between 2011 and 2013 in Eastern DR Congo, EMPAC New York and Reykjavík by Daniel Rejmer, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Paul Corley, Paul Evans and Ben Frost. Assisted by Alexander Overington, Jonathan Kawchuk, Emanuele Porcinai and Adrian Libeyre Ramirez. Mixed, Mastered and laid to rest by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Ben Frost at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík Iceland in December 2013. Additional mixing by Daniel Rejmer. https://benfrost.bandcamp.com/album/a-u-r-o-r-a In celebration of its 10th anniversary, renowned Iceland-based Australian composer Ben Frost releases a limited edition red vinyl of his studio album, A U R O R A, on Mute. Limited to just 400 copies in North America, this vinyl edition includes alternative artwork and an exclusive download of his blistering 2014 live performance at Berlin’s Berghain. A U R O R A, which has lost none of its visceral potency in the intervening years, received universal acclaim and featured in Albums of the Year lists at NPR, Rolling Stone, Clash, Crack, FACT, Stereogum, and more. Performed by Frost along with Greg Fox (ex-Liturgy), Shahzad Ismaily, and Thor Harris (ex-Swans) and largely written in Eastern DR Congo, the album is wholly absent of guitar, piano, string instruments and natural wooden intimacy, offering a defiantly synthetic world of fiercely shaped sounds and galactic interference, pummelling skins and pure metals. Frost is known for his groundbreaking contributions to composition, production, sound art, and direction over the past 15 years. These include soundtracks for film and TV shows such as Fortitude, Raised by Wolves, and Netflix series Dark and 1899, as well as opera creations including The Wasp Factory and The Murder of Halit Yozgat (which was performed at London’s Royal Opera House and Hannover’s Staatsoper). In 2024, he released his first studio album in six years, titled Scope Neglect, an experimental, genre-shifting record forged from Frost’s admiration for metal with the mindful removal of its conventional attributes.