Alva Noto - Kinder der Sonne (From "Komplizen") '2023

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Alva Noto soundtracks Simon Stone’s theatre piece
‘Komplizen’ with a suite of sci-fi zoners with a romantic, oceanic
depth sealed by his prized production methods. Pregnant with dread and
metaphysical presence, the soundtrack is Alva Noto’s first since his
celebrated work with Ryuichi Sakamoto on ‘The Revenant’ in 2015.
Supplying atmospheric colour to stage, rather than screen, ‘Kinder Der
Sonne’ takes its title from Maxim Gorky’s Russian revolution play
‘Children of the Sun’, which forms the basis for Simon
Stone’s ‘Komplizen’, performed by the Burgtheater Ensemble.
In context of its origins, the music follows with Alva Noto clearly relishing
the opportunity to deploy his coldest tones, icicle keys and projections of
imaginary space, but also exercising his romantic side with flashes of the sort
of widescreen pathos that lit up his cult ‘Xerrox’ series, and
reflected in his re-staging of moody pop classics by The Cure and Bowie in
recent years. As previewed in its lead single ‘Die
Untergründigen’, there’s a rich depth to the surface stillness
of ‘Kinder der Sonne’ that rewards playback on a good system but
will likely also be well represented on conventional set-ups. The precisely
isolated string shivers of the intro and the cracked minimalist lacquer of keys
in ‘Sehsuchtsvoll’ feels like a more maximalist echo of his early
Sakamoto collaborations. But if you’re hankering for those pure sound
design skills, check for the gloaming shapes of ‘Unwohl’ and the
glassy tension ruptured by digital noise in ‘Aufstand’, or the
resonant sferic plangency of ‘Ungewissheit im Sinus’ and the doomy
invocation of the album closer.

Tracklist:
1 01. Alva Noto - Kinder der Sonne (Intro) (04:01)
1 02. Alva Noto - Verlauf (03:42)
1 03. Alva Noto - Die Untergründigen (08:17)
1 04. Alva Noto - Sehnsuchtsvoll (07:32)
1 05. Alva Noto - Ungewissheit im Sinus (06:10)
1 06. Alva Noto - Kinder der Sonne - Reprise (06:30)
1 07. Alva Noto - Unwohl (03:01)
1 08. Alva Noto - Sehnsuchtsvoll - Reverso (06:51)
1 09. Alva Noto - Ungewiss (06:40)
1 10. Alva Noto - Aufstand (05:25)
1 11. Alva Noto - Die Undergründigen - Redux (04:55)
1 12. Alva Noto - Virus (05:01)
1 13. Alva Noto - Son (01:09)
1 14. Alva Noto - Nie anhaltender Strom (05:54)

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