Stockholm-based pianist/composer Shida Shahabi follows up last year’s ‘Lake On Fire’ OST with the release of another short film score,  for Swedish director Maria Eriksson-Hecht’s ‘Alvaret’. Stepping away from her piano entirely, the EP’s five tracks are performed by Shida on electric bass and synth, alongside the cello of regular collaborator Linnea Olsson. It was mixed by Hampus Norén and mastered by Francesco Donadello, and will be released as a digital EP via FatCat’s 130701 imprint on November 26th. A beautifully rich and atmospheric soundtrack, ‘Alvaret’ posts further confirmation of Shida’s special talent and growing reputation as a composer of the highest order.   

Produced by Lars Von Trier’s Zentropa company, Eriksson-Hecht’s ‘Alvaret’ is a powerful, stunningly shot 20-minute study on the aftermath of tragedy and a young girl’s resilience and determination to hold her remaining family together. The film runs short on dialogue but deep in emotional honesty and integrity as it probes the depths of care and despair. Perfectly in step with the director’s vision, Shida’s score avoids tugging at hearstrings via the obvious tropes of sentimentality, instead pulling back to a cooler, more measured and complex emotional distance, and an intimation of the barren, low-lying island landscape in which the film is set.

Alvaret (original soundtrack)

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Cellist/composer Clarice Jensen returns with her third album, ‘Esthesis’, a deep and gorgeous new work conceptually structured around the emotional and harmonic spectrum and the phenomenon of chromesthesia – a condition whereby sound involuntarily evokes an experience of color, shape and movement. Following up her critically-acclaimed 2020 LP ‘The experience of repetition as death’ (a record almost presciently timed to arrive as Covid first hit), ‘Esthesis’ sees Jensen expanding her oeuvre, introducing a wider instrumental range, and reflecting on the effects of isolation. Recorded by Jensen in upstate NY and expertly mixed by Francesco Donadello, the record was mastered by Matthew Agoglia and is released on October 21st, ahead of a UK/EU tour supporting 130701 alumni Dustin O’Halloran.

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tracklist:
1. John Cage - Radio Music (00:00:08)
2. Nick Edwards - Inside The Analog Continuum(00:00:49)
3. Mister Water Wet - Caged At Last(00:16:30)
4. Romeo Poirier - Impression Couleurs (00:20:07)
5. Bee Mask - Moon Shadow Move (00:21:08)
6. Shuta Hiraki - Few(00:24:27)
7. Brannten Schnüre - Nassgeregnet (00:26:00)
8. Jonathan Scherk - B1! (00:34:01)
9. Voice Actor - I Know What I Saw (00:35:58)
10. Glands Of External Secretion - Raoul Tinybear's 115th Dream (00:36:56)
11. The Blisks - Tepei Dubble (00:40:20)
12. Tenka - Nutrition (00:45:47)
13.  - Park Jiha & Roy Claire Potter - Piri & Janggeum For  A Flooded Town(00:51:15)
14. Sun Ra - When The Black Man Ruled This Land (00:59:40)
15. Andrew Heath & Simon McCorry - A IS For Autumn (01:07:12)
16. Heith - Ensemble For Somnambulists (01:11:06)
17. Yair Elazar Glotman - A Child (01:15:57)
18. Maxine Funke - Every Kind Word (01:20:07)
19. Dane Law - The Lost Men(01:23:47)
20. Voice Actor - Jazz (01:27:15)
21. Los Siquicos Litoralinos - Chamamacolico (01:28:35)
22. Klein -Faith In A Minor (01:30:27)
23. Voice Actor - DD OF Ds (01:40:19)
24. MLR - Labbaounds 2 (01:41:47)
25. Ignatz - Rise While You Fall (01:44:38)
26. Shuta Hiraki - Broken Letters (01:50:02)

Joy - Clarice Jensen

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