Composer-producer-musician-DJ Floating Points, aka Sam Shepherd, presents ‘Mere Mortals’, his first full-length ballet score. Commissioned and directed by the San Francisco Ballet’s artistic director Tamara Rojo, with choreography by Aszure Barton and design and visuals by Hamill Industries, the ballet reimagines the story of Pandora in a fusion of myth, music and movement. Recorded with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon, the 14-track album is a potent mix of elegiac strings, apocalyptic brass and pulsing electronics. From the lyrical solo violin of ‘Hope’ to the dissonance and pummelling percussion of ‘Rage of the Gods’, and the exquisite harp melody of ‘Her Gift’ before the eeriness of ‘Opening of the Jar’, the score is rich in texture and effect. Orchestral music emerges from an electronic haze, mirroring the ballet’s central question: where does the human end and the machine begin?
Floating Points: Mere Mortals (Vinyl) – San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Movement 1 – Fire
Movement 2 – Hope
Movement 3 – Rage of the Gods
Movement 4 – Zeus? Command
Movement 5 – Pandora?s Creation
Movement 6 – Pandora?s Theme
Movement 7 – Gift from the Gods
Movement 8 – Falling to Earth
Movement 9 – Prometheus? Warning
Movement 10 – Her Gift
Movement 11 – Opening of the Jar
Movement 12 – A Plea
Movement 13 – Hope Taking Flight
Movement 14 – Nowhere to Land
San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
45,90€
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