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 Gemma Ray Gemma Ray & The Death Bell Gang Electronica | Bronzerat | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th January 2023 £23.00 Select options Gemma Ray Gemma Ray & The Death Bell Gang £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Bronzerat Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th January 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Minimal Violence InDreams Electronica | Technicolour | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 26th April 2019 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Minimal Violence InDreams £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Technicolour SKU: TCLR033 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 26th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sidestepper Supernatural Love Electronica | Real World | 1LP Released 5th February 2016 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sidestepper Supernatural Love £15.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Real World SKU: LPRW211 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Little Dragon Season High Electronica | Because Music | 1LP, Includes CD Released 30th June 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Little Dragon Season High £18.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Because Music SKU: 5060421568522 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 30th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bibio Sunbursting EP Electronica | Warp | 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released 22nd September 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bibio Sunbursting EP £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WAP481 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Prodigy, The The Day Is My Enemy (Bad Company UK Remix) Electronica | RAM Records | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 18th November 2016 £5.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Prodigy, The The Day Is My Enemy (Bad Company UK Remix) £5.00 Genre: Electronica Label: RAM Records SKU: RAMM229 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 18th November 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Double Virgo Eros In The Bunker 12” Electronica | PLZ Make It Ruins | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 14th October 2022 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Double Virgo Eros In The Bunker 12” £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: PLZ Make It Ruins SKU: PLZ045 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 14th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blockhead Downtown Science Electronica | Ninja Tune | 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th June 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blockhead Downtown Science £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN113C Formats: 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matt's picks View Product Quick View Leftfield Leftism Electronica | Sony | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 19th May 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Leftfield Leftism £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Sony SKU: 19658708071 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 19th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View KVB, The Unity Electronica | Invada | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 26th November 2021 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders KVB, The Unity £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Invada SKU: INV259LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 26th November 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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