Berberian Sound Studio

 
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Berberian Sound Studio

[ Warp Records CD / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 7 January 2013

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Two years ago - the world was shocked and saddened at the tragic passing of Trish Keenan from Broadcast. At the time of her passing, the electronic outfit were working on a soundtrack to this. The band have since completed the recordings using recordings made with Keenan. As you would expect, the final piece is both haunting and brilliant and the perfect accompaniment to this superb film. The film's synopsis is as follows:

"It's 1976 and timid, Dorking-based sound engineer, Gilderoy, has been transplanted to Italy's run-down Berberian Sound Studio to work on "The Equestrian Vortex", the latest low-budget horror movie by notorious exploitation maestro Giancarlo Santini. Gilderoy's task is a seemingly simple one: to create, record and mix the sounds of bloodcurdling screams, limbs being severed and the insertion of red hot pokers into human orifices, mostly using a variety of everyday household items such as old vegetables and a hammer".

"It's undoubtedly derived from that high level of fastidiousness Keenan and Cargill always applied to their work together, but it also demonstrates what big-picture thinkers they were, able to forge unseen connections between disparate, barely heard musicians. It's what gives an album like this, drawn from so many sources, a recognizable identity of its own, and it's what gave their ever-evolving career a solid grounding in a world that was recognizably theirs." - Pitchfork

Tracks:

1. "A Breeze Through the Burford Spur"
2. "The Equestrian Vortex"
3. "Beautiful Hair"
4. "Malleus Maleficarum"
5. "Mark of the Devil"
6. "Confession Modulation"
7. "Monica's Fall"
8. "Teresa's Song (Sorrow)"
9. "The North Downs Dimension"
10. "Collatina Is Coming"
11. "Such Tender Things"
12. "Teresa, Lark of Ascension"
13. "Monica's Burial (Under the Junipers)"
14. "Found Scalded, Found Drowned"
15. "Monica (Her Parents Have Been Informed)"
16. "The Fifth Claw"
17. "Saducismus Triumphatus"
18. "The Gallops"
19. "They're Here, They're Under Us"
20. "Collatina, Mark of Damnation"
21. "Treatise"
22. "A Goblin"
23. "The Equestrian Library"
24. "The Serpent's Semen"
25. "Burnt at the Stake"
26. "All Chiffchaffs"
27. "The Curfew After the Massacre"
28. "Poultry in Mind"
29. "The Sacred Marriage"
30. "Valeria's Burial (Under the Fort)"
31. "Edda's Burial (Under the Clumps)"
32. "The Game's Up"
33. "It Must've Been The Magpies"
34. "The Dormitory Window"
35. "Anima Di Cristo"
36. "His World Is My Shed"
37. "Collatina's Folly"
38. "Here Comes the Sabbath, There Goes the Cross"
39. "Our Darkest Sabbath"

View the trailer (via YouTube)