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The first new Broadcast music in three years, in the form of compelling music for 2012’s most acclaimed indie film ‘Berberian Sound Studio’.

Peter Strickland’s ‘Berberian Sound Studio’, one of the most critically acclaimed indie films of the year, gained comparisons to the mastery of David Lynch and Francis Ford Coppola with The Guardian, The Telegraph and Metro awarding it five stars and Time Out saying that the “stylistically ambitious, morally radical, thematically complex work… deserves the highest praise.”

This turns out to also be an apt description of the film’s sublime soundtrack, composed by Broadcast (aka Trish Keenan and James Cargill), before Trish’s untimely passing last year. On its own, the music sets a sinister and atmospheric tone that still exists well within Broadcast’s sonic universe.

The record also represents the first new music from Broadcast since 2009’s ‘Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age’.

James Cargill wove in sound effects, screams and snatches of dialogue in order to bring elements of the film back into the soundtrack. The outcome is a rare piece of film music that not only enhances the visual, but exists on its own as an independent work, and one that is an invaluable edition to Broadcast’s inimitable history.

James Cargill (Broadcast) on his inspirations: “Speaking specifically about Italian soundtracks I think it’s the sentiment and texture in the work of composers like Morricone, Nicolai, Cipriani, Trovaioli (too many great composers to mention) that I’m fond of… a lot of it crosses over into the pop and psychedelic music of the time and I like the way they develop strong musical themes and then play with the arrangements, which was what we tried to do with Berberian.”

TRACK LISTING

1. A Breeze Through The Burford Spur
2. The Equestrian Vortex
3. Beautiful Hair
4. Malleus Maleficarum
5. Mark Of The Devil
6. Confession Modulation
7. Monica’s Fall
8. Teresa’s Song (Sorrow)
9. The North Downs Dimension
10. Collatina Is Coming
11. Such Tender Things
12. Teresa, Lark Of Ascension
13. Monica’s Burial (Under The Junipers)
14. Found Scalded, Found Drowned
15. Monica (Her Parents Have Been Informed)
16. The Fifth Claw
17. Saducismus Triumphatus
18. The Gallops
19. They’re Here, They’re Under Us
20. Collatina, Mark Of Damnation
21. Treatise
22. A Goblin
23. The Equestrian Library
24. The Serpent’s Semen
25. Burnt At The Stake
26. All Chiffchaffs
27. The Curfew After The Massacre
28. Poultry In Mind
29. The Sacred Marriage
30. Valeria’s Burial (Under The Fort)
31. Edda’s Burial (Under The Clumps)
32. The Game’s Up
33. It Must’ve Been The Magpies
34. The Dormitory Window
35. Anima Di Cristo
36. His World Is My Shed
37. Collatina’s Folly
38. Here Comes The Sabbath, There Goes The Cross
39. Our Darkest Sabbath