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01. BEN FROST - The Wasp Factory
02. BEN FROST - I See You've Washed Your Hands Again
03. BEN FROST - Death, No Less
04. BEN FROST - Low Tide
05. BEN FROST - Blyth
06. BEN FROST - My Greatest Enemies Are Women And The Sea
07. BEN FROST - High Tide
08. BEN FROST - To Be Mastered, The World Must Be Named
09. BEN FROST - What Happened To Me
10. BEN FROST - You Don't Have To Sleep
11. BEN FROST - Stormfront
12. BEN FROST - The Bomb Circle
13. BEN FROST - Esmeralda
14. BEN FROST - Eric Is Getting Nearer
15. BEN FROST - Inferno
ARTIST
TITLE
The Wasp Factory
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
HVALUR 025LP HVALUR 025LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/20/2017

Limited 2022 restock. Following the CD release of Ben Frost's The Wasp Factory in December of 2016 (HVALUR 025CD), a limited edition transparent vinyl version is presented here. In advance of new music from Ben Frost in 2017, Bedroom Community present the definitive recorded version of his 2013 opera and directorial stage debut, The Wasp Factory, based on the novel by the late Iain Banks. Setting his unwitting characters against the backdrop of vast, implacable forces of nature -- storm, sea, fire, and even their own madness -- Frost reaches deep into his formidable arsenal to reveal an unexpected warmth, from the composer of electronic experiments like Aurora (2014) and Theory Of Machines (HVALUR 002CD/LP, 2006). The focus here is on the live sound of the Reykjavík Sinfonia, recorded in Abbey Road's Studio II and, for the first time, the human voice. He sets David Pountney's libretto to tuneful, even soulful vocal lines; an extraordinarily unreliable narrator describing scenes of extreme violence and horror in music of incongruous loveliness. Limited edition transparent vinyl comes in an edition of 1000.

"One of his boldest projects thus far, Frost's score and concept for the opera is both ambitious and grand in its design. The writing is often sparse and wide, yet simultaneously focused and intense. Frank, the protagonist, is infamously cast as an ensemble of three women who give voice to his dissociated internal monologues." --Drowned In Sound

"The Australia-born, Iceland-based Frost is popularly known for his electro-acoustic hybrids of classical music and heavy metal. He combines post-minimal finesse with modernist severity and Wagnerian daring, charging into the deepest abysses of quiet and storming up the fieriest peaks of noise. Though the focus is now live sound and the human voice, The Wasp Factory should still resonate with fans of his ambient music. It's By The Throat (HVALUR 006CD/LP, 2009) inverted, foregrounding classical and recessing electronics, with no entropy in Frost's signature blend of concussive brawn, delicate tissue, and intricate logic." --Pitchfork