RECORD LAUNCH, MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND FILM SCREENING

Mute FREQUENCIES  / FLAMING PINES
 

19:00-23:00

2 Cygnet SQ, SE2 9FAFree / Food and Drink available

Experimental ambient and sound art label Flaming Pines launch the new album Svalbard by Mute Freqencies, inspired by three silent documentaries about the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The evening includes live performances and screening of the short films.   

Mute Frequencies have produced an infectious, restless and disturbing journey across time and place in these soundtracks for nostalgic tales of human endeavour, and natural beauty.

From dust speckled black and white footage of seal carcasses, craggy fjords and mining towns to the washed out palette of 1970s Soviet canteens for dusty miners musical duo Ilia Rogatchevski and Laura Rogatchevskaia have crafted a poignant album which aims to explore not just a place, but its representation across particular moments in time.

The three works which comprise the album are named for the silent documentaries they aim to soundtrack: Further North, There Is Only the North Pole (1976, USSR), Spitsbergen (1958, Poland), and A Trip To Svalbard (1930, Norway). 


Flaming Pines is a record label focused on field recording, sound art and experimental ambient music run by artist Kate Carr 

Mute Frequencies is the sound art project of Ilia Rogatchevski and Laura Rogatchevskaia, both former members of the London post-punk band Sebastian Melmoth.