Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - Sólaris mp3

Performer: Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason
Title: Sólaris
Country: Iceland
Catalog Number: HVALUR 12CD
Label: Bedroom Community
Released: Nov 2011
Style: Modern Classical, Ambient
Rating: 4.5
Votes: 051

Ben Frost Daníel Bjarnason Iceland Bedroom Community Modern Classical Ambient 2011

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Tracklist

1	Hydrogen Sulfide	2:12
2	We Don't Need Other Worlds, We Need Mirrors	2:11
3	Reyja	5:05
4	Cruel Miracles	3:49
5	Snow	1:00
6	You Mean More To Me Than Any Scientific Truth	2:38
7	Simulacra I	5:35
8	Simulacra II	7:36
9	Venia	6:24
10	Saccades	6:01
11	Unbreakable Silence	3:36

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
HVALUR12, Hvalur12	Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason	Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - Sólaris ‎(CD, Album, Promo)	Bedroom Community, Bedroom Community	HVALUR12, Hvalur12	Iceland	2011
HVALUR12, Hvalur12LP	Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason	Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - Sólaris ‎(LP, Album, Ltd)	Bedroom Community, Bedroom Community	HVALUR12, Hvalur12LP	Iceland	2012

Credits

Arranged By – Daníel Bjarnason
Artwork – Brian Eno, Nick Robertson
Artwork [Assistance] – Anastasia Afonina
Concept By – Mat Schulz
Conductor – Daníel Bjarnason
Cover [Photography] – Börkur Sigþórsson
Design – Frosti Gnarr
Gaffer – Ásgrimur Guðbjartsson
Layout – Frosti Gnarr
Leader [Orchestra Leader] – Robert Kabara
Mastered By – Valgeir Sigurðsson
Mixed By – Valgeir Sigurðsson
Performer – Ben Frost, Daníel Bjarnason
Performer [Performed With] – Sinfonietta Cracovia
Producer – Ben Frost, Valgeir Sigurðsson
Programmed By [Additional Programming], Other [Software Manipulation & Air Support] – Paul Corley
Recorded By – Daniel Rejmer, Valgeir Sigurðsson
Recorded By [Additional Recording Assistance] – Clément Lemennicier, Jérémy Joseph Vachet, Luke Howard
Recorded By [Additional Recording] – Paul Evans
Recorded By [Assistance] – Krzysztof Bielewicz, Piotr Witkowski
Sounds [Live Sound] – Daniel Rejmer
Written-By – Ben Frost, Daníel Bjarnason

Notes

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

Barcodes

Barcode (Text): 8 80319 53652 6
Barcode (Reader): 880319536526
Matrix / Runout: CA HVALUR12CD @@
Matrix / Runout (Innec CD ring): 9/1/2011 7:53:09 PM 0000747707
Mastering SID Code: IFPI LY88
Mould SID Code: IFPI 1285

Companies

Distributed By – Kompakt Distribution
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Bedroom Community
Copyright (c) – Bedroom Community
Recorded At – Alvernia Studios
Recorded At – Greenhouse Studios Iceland
Mixed At – Greenhouse Studios Iceland
Mastered At – Greenhouse Studios Iceland

Video

Album

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Moonshaper

An excerpt:

The music on Sólaris is based off of the 1960′s Polish science fiction novel of the same name by Stanislaw Lem. For those not familiar with the story, Sólaris was an interesting concept that found human scientists studying a planet named Sólaris from a hovering research facility. The planet itself was conscious/self-aware and was able to read the thoughts of the scientists and project their deeply-hidden guilt in the form of manifestations that mirror the scientists most painful memories and experiences.

Most of Sólaris is downright painful to listen to on a psychological level, especially once you know what the theme behind the music is concerning. There are vast open segments of minimal beauty that enhance the near-cataclysmic moments between and largely dictate the emotions of the listener at that moment. Clean, crisp flowing harmonies are often quickly disrupted by a gentle dissonant pairing in the layers that lie underneath the highest level of melody, and are often disturbed by the uncomfortable chromatically-played tremolo notes on strings. Often they are not actually played in a chromatic manner but stay the same note, which still gives off moments of extreme tension as they swell and pull back in purling resonance. As is true to each composer on the record, these moments often cut abruptly and collapse into either nothingness or another desolate atmosphere created by a minimalist approach. There are few, if any, joyful moments on the album as is true to the story they represent. It is a constant journey through trauma, a constant digging through the memory of a conscious mind. Sifting, seeking, pushing.

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