A U R O R A

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There is definitely something of the acid drenched fields of the home counties in the Nineties about much of A U R O R A, perhaps stemming from its cathedral-like sense of space.

He cast himself as a kind of endurance artist on the cover of his 2007 album Theory of Machines and, in 2013, directed his own theatrical adaption of Iain Banks’ novel The Wasp Factory. Much of Aurora was composed while Frost was in the Democratic Republic of Congo, collaborating on a film reflecting the region’s notorious violence.Tim Holtz Tonic Studios Two Jays Stamps Vaessen Creative VersaFine VersaMagic VersaMark Wendy Vecchi Make Art Woodware Wow Embossing Powders More brands. Completed with contributions from multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily and Thor Harris and Greg Fox on percussion, it is also Frost’s most heavily synthetic work to date, where the familiar timbres of guitar and piano are rejected in favour of harsh, ambiguous tones. It brings to mind Frost's talk of fighting to contain his compositions on A U R O R A, and that struggle shows.

There’s a welcome dread lurking in the space between the minimal patterns, before Frost unleashes a spiralling synth line and accompanying supernova sized crescendo that shatters the darkness into millions of glittering pieces of light. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. They filmed the war-torn region with infrared film that cast the people and landscape in a gorgeous palette of pink and purple hues, and Frost made the field recordings that would form the basis of the score.Surging forth and climaxing in a monsoon of shrill dissonance and clanging church bells, it captures a duality and primal essence that Frost seems to effortlessly concoct and manoeuvre.