Ben Frost

Reveals new track ‘Venter’ from new album ‘A U R O R A’ – out 26/27 May.

Ben Frost has unveiled the first track from his highly anticipated new album A U R O R A, out on Mute – released in collaboration with Bedroom Community – on 26/27 May 2014.

Listen to Venter here:

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, London, on 26 April and 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, pummeling skins and pure metals.

A series of films has been created by Trevor Tweeten and Richard Mosse, watch the first here:

BEN FROST L I V E

26 April – Convergence Festival, London, ENGLAND

15 May – The Button Factory, Dublin, IRELAND

16 May – Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, IRELAND

17 May – CLICK Festival, Elisinore, DENMARK

18 May – STUK, Leuven, BELGIUM

20 May – Muziekgebouw at Trouw, Amsterdam, HOLLAND

21 May – UT Connewitz, Leipzig, GERMANY

22 May – Berghain, Berlin, GERMANY

23 May – MeetFactory, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

24 May – Žedno Uho Festival, Zagreb, CROATIA

29 May – MUTEK Festival, Montreal, CANADA

12 June – Sonar Festival, Barcelona, SPAIN

11 July – ATP Festival, ICELAND

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