PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project - VINYL LP

Composed and produced over the course of nearly three years, Spencer Doran's original soundtrack for SEASON A letter to the future underpins the highly-anticipated atmospheric adventure game in which the main character must save memories of a civilization on the verge of collapse. A rich collection of transmissions from this warmly fading world, we hear a culture and ecology through the sentimental ear of their last witness. Doran was an early collaborator in the making of SEASON, helping define the game's imaginary world and emotional tones. His past work in music has taken many forms including site-specific audio installations, compiling the acclaimed Kankyo Ongaku Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990, and his own humanely futuristic work as half of Visible Cloaks. Each pursuit found relevance within the soundtrack of a video game that takes place in an invented culture living out it's final days. SEASON is about what it feels like to be alive in a certain time and place, and to capture that feeling for the future. The protagonist of the story, Estelle, is a photographer and sound recordist, working with her microphone, camera, and journal to uncover the complexity of an environment facing erasure. This documentation is not mere salvage anthropology, but a key to understanding Estelle's own past, and also a meditation on our present. Sound and music factor heavily into the interactive and narrative aspects of SEASON; the character is equipped with a free-form audio recorder used to capture and playback any sound heard in the game and trigger revelations about the world around her. These sounds are at times musical, and we hear them interwoven with Doran's score throughout the soundtrack an organ played by mountain air, a ratchety mechanical music box echoing out communal Inchsleep musicInch for a village, an aeolian harp played by gusts of va

The Quartet No. 3 Inch... Songs are Sung,Inch Op. 67 by Henryk Mikolaj Górecki belongs to the late works of the composer, and for a long time it was considered to be his last opused work. It was composed in the '90s on commission of the Kronos ensemble. The artist would redo it several times before he eventually decided to Inch it to the world.Inch The reference to a song in the title is not accidental - the cantabile category, in combination with sometimes dramatic, sometimes doleful and melancholic narration additionally contributes to the Quartet becoming a sui generis chamber echo of the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs No. 3. The perception of the piece is dominated with Górecki's style, recognizable by almost every music lover- deeply emotional, introverted, frugal, and at the same time extremely moving. The Dafô Quartet, the first female string quartet in Poland, have been fascinated audiences with contemporary music performance from the beginning of their career; they belong to the most outstanding performers of Polish chamber music.

PJ HARVEY, - LET ENGLAND SHAKE - DEMOS - VINYL LP - Collection of unreleased demos of tracks written for the eighth PJ Harvey studio album Let England Shake, including demos of 'The Words That Maketh Murder', 'The Glorious Land' and 'The Last Living Rose'. Features brand new artwork - the cover is a drawing by Polly, and the package also includes previously unseen photos by Seamus Murphy. Mastering by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering, under the guidance of longtime PJ Harvey producer John Parish. LP Info - 180g black vinyl. Full colour outer sleeve, with printed inner sleeve. Artwork includes previously unseen drawing and photos. Download card