Return to Solaris Kevin Richard Martin SKU: PHNTM20 Barcode: 5053760074199 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Phantom Limb Released Date: 25th June 2021 Buying Format: 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Acclaimed UK electronic musician Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug, King Midas Sound) releases a stunningly powerful rescore of Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal 1972 movie Solaris on Phantom Limb. In May 2020, British musician Kevin Martin was invited by the Vooruit arts centre in Gent, Belgium to compose a new score for a film of his choice. Having been long inspired by pioneering Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, Martin tells us that his 1972 masterpiece Solaris was the “natural choice”. The film is an unattested giant, not only of science fiction and Soviet film, but also in the annals cinematic history. And its original score, composed by regular Tarkovsky collaborator and early Soviet electronic musician Eduard Artemyev, is a magnificent work of haunting majesty, a key element to the film’s brilliance. Martin’s challenge was great: “it was with a certain amount of trepidation I stepped into such large footprints,” he writes. The results – an all new score entitled Return to Solaris – are breathtaking. The film is intense, psychologically devastating and bleakly compelling. Interweaving themes of love, horror, sorrow, nostalgia, memory and dystopia, Martin’s score expertly mirrors this expansive breadth of psychic weight, from existential dread to heartbreaking poignancy, with immense emotional gravity. Drawn to its “narrative struggle between organic, pastoral memories of a lost past, and the harsh, dystopian realities of a futuristic hell,” Martin employs atonal noise, simmering waves of distorted synthesis, undulating drones and otherworldly, astronomic sound-design to crushing effect. Subtly submerged recurring motifs – reflections of individual characters – rise and fall amidst the fog, occasionally illuminating the doom like motes of starlight, before settling back into the density of space. Album opener “Theme for Kris” begins with a shimmering, alien tone, mimicking a disembodied, metallic choralsong that creeps and snakes about an unsettling frequency range. Ghosts aboard a deserted space station. The hissing, technological dystopia of subsequent track “Solaris” sends evaporating torrents of steam through bulging, clanging, echoing chords, while later on the record, “In Love With A Ghost” revisits these same passages of seething doom, but now refocused into billowing, droning clouds of noise. Determined that his score should retain the eerie, dreamlike mood of the film and authenticity to its era and origin, Kevin mined his analogue lab for suitable instruments and recording equipment, favouring antiquated, hands-on hardware over computer-based production techniques. With Voorhuit’s help, he acquired an original Pulsar 23 drum machine, created by cult Russian synth builders SOMA Laboratory. Appropriately, much of his rescore is centred around its spectral, strung-out sounds. The project represents many firsts for Kevin: his first commissioned soundtrack; his first composition to picture; his first work in his new Belgian home after a move from Berlin; his first live performance to film screening. On completion, he performed Return to Solaris to picture over sold out two nights in October 2020, in the beautiful Voorhuit concert theatre of Gent, Belgium. And, with huge personal significance, this was his first public performance of the Covid era. He performed to a socially distanced crowd, many of whom unaware of his existing profile, “which made the rapturous reception and incredible feedback to the performance all the more memorable,” he writes. Tarkovsky’s Solaris won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival and was screened for an incredible fifteen years uninterrupted in the Soviet Union. It is placed highly in “greatest movies of all time” lists published by Empire and the BBC, among others. Steven Soderburgh directed a Hollywood remake in 2002, starring George Clooney, and scored by Cliff Martinez. Kevin Richard Martin is a British musician, record producer and critically acclaimed curator / compiler based in Brussels. He is widely known for his recording alias The Bug, and has been active for almost three decades, producing dub, jazzcore, industrial hip hop, dancehall, and dubstep, and – more recently, under his own name – electronic ambient music. His band King Midas Sound features British-Trinidadian poet Roger Robinson and formerly singer / visual artist Kiki Hitomi, of Phantom Limb’s WaqWaq Kingdom. Artist Kevin Richard Martin Genre Electronica Label Phantom Limb Buying Options 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Format 2LP , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country UK Track Listings Opening credits (theme for Kris. ) Solaris Concrete Tunnels Hari Together Again In love with a ghost Weightlessness Resurrection Wife or Mother Rejection of Earth Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Electronica View Product Quick View Subjective The Start Of No Regret Electronica | Sony Masterworks | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th May 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Subjective The Start Of No Regret £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Sony Masterworks SKU: 19439953111 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th May 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Clark 05 – 10 Electronica | Warp | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 30th September 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Clark 05 – 10 £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WARPLP346 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 30th September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View DJ Harrison Shades of Yesterday Electronica | Stones Throw Records | 1LP Released 9th February 2024 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders DJ Harrison Shades of Yesterday £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Stones Throw Records SKU: STH2474LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Suzi Analogue Infinite Zonez Electronica | Disciples | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 9th September 2022 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Suzi Analogue Infinite Zonez £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Disciples SKU: DISC12 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alaskalaska Still Life Electronica | Marathon Artists | 1LP Released 25th November 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alaskalaska Still Life £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Marathon Artists SKU: MA0364LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View 99Letters Kaibou Zukan Electronica | Disciples | 2LP Released 11th November 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders 99Letters Kaibou Zukan £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Disciples SKU: DISC18 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 11th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Drexciya Neptune’s Lair Electronica | Tresor | 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 2nd September 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Drexciya Neptune’s Lair £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Tresor SKU: TRESOR129LPX Formats: 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 2nd September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tusks Dissolve Electronica | One Little Independent | 1LP Released 24th November 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tusks Dissolve £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: One Little Independent SKU: 05016958087708 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gilroy Mere Gilden Gate Electronica | Clay Pipe Music | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 24th March 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gilroy Mere Gilden Gate £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Clay Pipe Music SKU: Pipe_033_LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 24th March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Foxx And The Maths Interplay Electronica | Metamatic Records | 180g, 1LP Released 14th September 2012 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Foxx And The Maths Interplay £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Metamatic Records SKU: META28LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 14th September 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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