Ben Frost releases his highly anticipated new album A U R O R A – on May 27th, 2014,and has just released the second in a triptych of films, created by Trevor Tweeten and Richard Mosse.

Last month saw “Venter” released to the public, the first track to be revealed from A U R O R A. “Venter” was awarded Best New Track at Pitchfork and described by Stereogum as “music that sounds as if it’ll break down at any minute from tension, and eventually does, as it dissolves into complete eye-of-the-storm calm right— and then all f’n hell breaks loose.”

A U R O R A, Frost's fifth studio album, will be preceded by a series of live dates, launching with a performance at the Village Underground in London, on April 26th leading into festival appearances including Sonar in June and ATP Iceland in July.

Performed by Ben Frost with Greg Fox, Shahzad Ismaily and Thor Harris and largely written in Eastern DR Congo, A U R O R A aims directly, through its monolithic construction, at blinding luminescent alchemy; not with benign heavenly beauty but through decimating magnetic force.

 

Starved of all the adornments of its predecessor; wholly absent of guitar, of piano, of string instruments and natural wooden intimacy, A U R O R A offers a defiant new world of fiercely synthetic shapes and galactic interference, pummelling skins and pure metals.

Ben Frost LIVE Dates:

April 26th---Convergence---London, England

May 15th---The Button Factory---Dublin, Ireland

May 16th---Triskel Arts Centre---Cork, Ireland

May 17th---CLICK Festival---Elisinore, Denmark

May 18th---STUK---Leuven, Belgium

May 20th---Muziekgebouw at Trouw---Amsterdam, Holland

May 21st---UT Connewitz---Leipzig, Germany

May 22nd---Berghain---Berlin, Germany

May 23rd----MeetFactory---Prague, Czech Republic

May 24th---Žedno Uho Festival---Zagreb, Croatia

May 29th---MUTEK Festival---Montreal, CANADA

June 12th---Sonar Festival---Barcelona, SPAIN

 July 11th---ATP Festival---ICELAND

 

BEN FROST B I O G R A P H Y

 

Born in 1980 in Melbourne, Australia, Frost relocated to Reykjavík Iceland in 2005 and working together with close friends Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly, formed the Bedroom Community record label/collective.

 

His albums, including Steel Wound (2003), Theory of Machines (2007) and BY THE THROAT (2009) fuse intensely structured sound art with militant post-classical electronic music, shape-shifting physical power with immersive melody, concentrated minimalism with fierce, rupturing dark metal.

 

In 2010 he was chosen by Brian Eno as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé program for a year of collaboration, one of the outcomes of which was Sólaris; a re-scoring of the Tarkovsky classic for Poland’s Sinfonietta Cracovia. The pair continue to work together on a range of projects.

 

Frost regularly collaborates with other musicians and artists; in the production of albums such as Tim Hecker’s Ravedeath 1972 and Virgins, SWANS The Seer, Colin Stetson’s New History Warfare and on various Bedroom Community releases. On the stage Frost has produced scores for Choreographers including Wayne McGregor/Random Dance, Akram Khan, Gideon Obarzanek/Chunky Move, and German Director Falk Richter. In film he composed the score for the Palme d’Or nominated Sleeping Beauty by Julia Leigh, and Djúpið by Icelandic Director Baltasar Kormákur (with Daníel Bjarnason). And in the visual arts, where, with artist Richard Mosse, Frost travelled deep beyond the frontlines of war-torn Eastern Congo to produce The Enclave; a multi-channel video and sound installation that premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2013.

 

2013 also marked his debut as a director with the première of Frost’s first Opera, based on Iain Bank´s infamous 1984 novel The Wasp Factory.

 

These various collaborations and alliances underline Frost’s continuing fascination with finding ways of juxtaposing music, rhythm, technology, the body, performance, text, art -beauty and violence- combining and coalescing the roles and procedures of various artistic disciplines in one place.