Published
Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 09:00
- Out in December, Broken Spectre was made using ultra-high frequency sounds emitted by local fauna.
Ben Frost is releasing his first studio album in five years next month.
Spanning 12 tracks, Broken Spectre was made by recording and pitching down the ultra-high frequency sounds emitted by local fauna in various parts of the Amazon rainforest, including Ecuador, the Pantanal wetlands and Yanomami territory.
"Over the past three years, Richard Mosse, Trevor Tweeten and myself traversed the Amazon documenting its destruction," said Frost. "To witness this systematic destruction firsthand was to travel back in time, and reflect upon the scarred landscapes of Europe, the US and particularly for me, Australia."
He added: "This album is ultimately a document of failure. A failure of our democracies, a failure of political will, a failure of imagination, and creatively, my own failure to communicate through sound the vast scale of the Amazon and the ongoing damage inflicted upon it by the policies of Jair Bolsonaro."
Photographer Mosse's film about the expedition, also titled Broken Spectre, premiered at 180 The Strand in London in October and will remain on show until December 4th, 2022.
Listen to the album.
Tracklist
01. Report From An Obscure Planet
02. The Index
03. Love In A Colder Climate
04. The Burning World
05. Passport To Eternity
06. The Intensive Care Unit
07. The Garden of Time
08. Cry Hope, Cry Fury
09. The Killing Ground
10. Low Flying Aircraft
11. A Guide To Virtual Death
12. The Crystal World
Vinyl Factory will release Broken Spectre on December 5th, 2022.
