Ben Frost - Fortitude III (Music from the Original TV Series) '2018

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Australian experimental electronic music composer Ben Frost was born in 1980 and
grew up in Melbourne, influenced by a wide range of music from classical
minimalism to punk rock and black metal, as well as sound art and design. In
2001, he self-released his debut EP, Music for Sad Children, which was
well-received and led to an album release, Steel Wound, in 2003 on Lawrence
Englishs acclaimed Room 40 label. The album was composed of treated acoustic
guitar recordings made in the desolate Australian outback, combined with field
recordings by English, and was warmly received by the worldwide ambient
community.

In 2005, Frost emigrated from Australia, a country where he later said he never
really felt at home, and moved to Iceland, where he formed the label/collective
Bedroom Community with fellow experimentalists Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico
Muhly. Frost then started to develop what would become regarded as his signature
style: densely composed, incredibly visceral, noisy music created with electric
guitars, electronics, and chamber strings. His debut for Bedroom Community was
the highly acclaimed Theory of Machines in 2007, followed by the even more
vicious By the Throat in 2009. As the collective grew, Frost performed on and
engineered many albums by his fellow artists, and became infamous for his
brutally loud, unlit live performances. In 2010, he was selected to be mentored
for a year by Brian Eno as part of the Rolex Mentors & Protégés
Initiative. The result was the 2011 album Sólaris, a soundtrack of sorts to
Andrei Tarkovskys classic sci-fi film, commissioned by the Unsound Festival in
Kraków and composed alongside fellow Bedroom Community artist Daníel
Bjarnason. Frost branched out into other soundtrack work with his scores for the
Australian psychological drama films In Her Skin and Sleeping Beauty, the latter
of which was screened in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was
highly critically acclaimed.

Frost spent most of 2012 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, documenting the
bloody conflict there with video artist Richard Mosse for an audio-visual art
installation exhibited at the 2013 Venice Biennale. While he was there, he also
wrote music for a new album. In 2013, he signed to Mute and went about recording
the new album with Greg Fox, Shahzad Ismaily, and Swans drummer Thor Harris.
Inspired in part by a love of African music he had learned from Eno, the album
was heavily percussive, as dense as his earlier work but less noisy and more
purely electronic. Titled Aurora, it was released in May 2014, preceded by the
single Venter. That years Variant EP included remixes of the song by Evian
Christ and HTRK, as well as other reworkings by Kangding Ray and Regis. Frosts
score for the video game Rainbow Six: Siege, also featuring compositions by Paul
Haslinger, was released in 2015.

Frosts score for his first theater production, an adaptation of the The Wasp
Factory by Iain Banks, was released in 2016. The score consisted of Frosts
signature minimalist and experimental drone work with string sections, and made
prominent use of sound designed to encapsulate the visceral nature of the shows
story. Bedroom Community issued Frosts The Wasp Factory near the end of 2016.
Frosts scores for the drama series Fortitude and the film Super Dark Times were
released in 2017. He returned to Mute for the Threshold of Faith EP and the
full-length The Centre Cannot Hold, both of which were recorded by Steve Albini.
Another EP related to the album, All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated, followed
in 2018. ~ John D. Buchanan

Tracklist:
2:57 | 01. Ben Frost - Snow Like Smoke
2:37 | 02. Ben Frost - Cerebral Spinal Fluid
2:58 | 03. Ben Frost - Thundersnow
1:55 | 04. Ben Frost - Priceless Treasure
2:46 | 05. Ben Frost - Touch the Heart
1:56 | 06. Ben Frost - I Dont Remember You Murdering Anyone For Me
8:05 | 07. Ben Frost - Orcas Swim in Those Waters
4:33 | 08. Ben Frost - Catastrophic Deliquescence
2:41 | 09. Ben Frost - Longer Than All The Life You Lived Before It Started
2:05 | 10. Ben Frost - All Good

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