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The Rig (Prime Video Original Series Soundtrack)

    Blanck Mass (Fuck Buttons, Benjamin J Power, The Editors) scored the new Amazon Prime series ‘The Rig’, staring Iain Glen and Emily Hampshire.When the crew of the North Sea stationed Kinloch Bravo oil rig is due to return to the mainland, a mysterious fog rolls in and cuts off communication with the outside world. The crew are then driven to the limits of their endurance and loyalties are forced into a confrontation with forces beyond their imagination.

    “With ‘The Rig’ being the first TV show I have scored, I feel lucky to have worked with the team behind the show on a score which to my mind is my most concise and unified palette-wise in recent memory,” says Power. “The setting of the physical oil rig presented a very specific visual and sonic identity for me. The creaks and groans of the giant metal sculpture and how it is in a constant battle with the nature fed itself into the scoring process. This score is perhaps my most elemental to date and it was a joy to work on.”

    TRACK LISTING

    The Rig (Main Titles)
    Wake Up
    Omen
    Fossils Digging Fossils
    Flesh Meets Floor
    Vision
    Ghost
    Helideck
    S.B.V Lights
    Body, Rejecting
    Circles
    Leck
    Search For Hutton
    Spiderdeck
    Alwyn / Discovery
    Surrender
    No Fire Without Flare
    We’ll Bring Him In
    Survivors, Arriving
    Person Unknown
    Don’t Let Him Out Of Your Sight
    ROV
    The Altar
    Fissures Spread
    Sleep Tight
    The Charlie
    Rose Takes Control
    Bigger Than All Of Us
    It’s Quitting Time
    System Priming
    Life Remains In Life
    The Wave
    The Rig (End Credits)

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    Ted K - Original Soundtrack

      This February the story of the infamous Unabomber Ted Kaczynski will receive its theatrical debut in a new Tony Stone directed film, Ted K. Kaczynski is notorious for both tragically murdering three people (and wounding an additional 23) via bombs sent in the mail and for his numerous writings on the evils of technology he composed during his primitive residency in the woods of Montana. Stone’s choice to have the renowned electronic artist Blanck Mass score the film is somewhat ironic and creates an obvious tension perfect for the controversial and complex subject matter.

      2020 saw the first Blanck Mass movie score, for the soundtrack to Nick Rowland’s acclaimed cinematic debut Calm with Horses. This expansion into new areas of melodic composition and textural exploration won Blanck Mass many new fans, with the BBC’s acknowledged number one film buff Mark Kermode proclaiming the work the soundtrack of the year. In 2021, Blanck Mass won the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score and has firmly established himself at the forefront of the latest wave of experimental soundscape wizards.

      Recording during lockdown at his studio in Edinburgh, Scotland, Blanck Mass’s Ben Power was in the perfect setting for a musical piece intended to capture the isolation central to Kaczynski’s story. Power was also working with a director in a time zone 10 hours behind and thus many sessions required working in the middle of the night, which added a fitting intensity to the composition process. He said of the project “I wanted it to feel like an ‘epic’” and drew on the legends Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone for inspiration in encapsulating the energy of the perceived good vs. evil.

      The gentle madness of sound achieved is exquisite and slowly builds in intensity and desperation as the score moves along. Power is able to perfectly capture the complexity, the terror and the deep emotionality of the film while presenting an often breathtakingly beautiful and always masterful album that stands on its own as a work of art.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Scroll
      2. Montana (Main Theme)
      3. Noise Destroys Something Wonderful
      4. Pesticides
      5. Revenge
      6. ComTech
      7. Greyhound
      8. Second Test
      9. Desecration
      10. Tell Me Your Heart
      11. Dark Materials
      12. Becky’s Theme
      13. Blue Tunnel
      14. Manifesto
      15. Ranger Gary
      16. At Peace - Freedom Club
      17. Prophecy
      18. Skidders
      19. Montana (Reprise)

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      Calm With Horses

        Invada Records are proud to release Blanck Mass’ score to ‘Calm With Horses’ on vinyl and CD! Black Mass’ first feature length, synth-heavy score was previously released on digital platforms on 13th March.  Blanck Mass is the solo project of Benjamin John Power. The musician, also one half of Fuck Buttons, has been making music under the moniker since 2010 and has released three albums on Sacred Bones, 2015's Dumb Flesh, 2017's World Eater and 2019’s Animated Violence Mild. Calm With Horses, Nick Rowland’s feature film debut, is a raw and beautiful tale of one man’s struggle to navigate both crime and family life in rural Ireland.

        TRACK LISTING

        Violent Child
        The Devers
        Jack's Theme
        Different Breed
        Halfwit
        Sleepless
        The Cliff
        Loyal Skins
        Heck Speaks
        Descent
        That Plank In Your Eye
        Manipulation
        Prove Yourself
        Photograph
        Nothing That Cannot Be Turned Back
        Leaving
        Credits

        An electronica-infused alternative version of Editors’ acclaimed Top 10 album ‘Violence’, ‘The Blank Mass Sessions’ casts the songs in a bold new light, offering a fascinating insight into the album’s creative process.

        The eight track album, made up of producer Blanck Mass’ original productions of ‘Violence’, also includes the brand new single ‘Barricades’.

        For ‘Barricades’, Smith’s hopeful lyrics combine with yearning synths over robotic drum machines and sweeping basslines, while ‘Cold’ is given a frostier edge through Blanck Mass’ harsh percussion and robotic directness.

        ‘Violence’’s stripped back beat builds and erupts into a synth-fuelled chorus brim-full of busy drum patterns and ‘Magazine’s jaunty, sweeping synths and rolling snares lend it even more electronic swagger than the original.

        ‘Hallelujah (So Low)’ gifts the greatest insight into the triangular relationship ‘Violence’ was born from. The warmth of the album version’s acoustic guitar and industrial fuelled chorus are replaced with sparse, ethereal synths, giving the track and ‘The Blanck Mass Sessions’ in general, a mechanical, other-worldly edge.

        TRACK LISTING

        Barricades - The Blanck Mass Recording
        Cold - The Blanck Mass recording
        Hallelujah (So Low) - The Blanck Mass Recording
        Violence - The Blanck Mass Recording
        Darkness At The Door - the Blanck Mass recording
        Nothingness - The Blanck Mass Recording
        Magazine - The Blanck Mass Recording
        Counting Spooks - The Blanck Mass Recording

        Blanck Mass

        Odd Scene B/w Shit Luck

          THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2018 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

          These two tracks have been recorded specifically with RSD in mind, and were committed to tape in the space of a frenzied two day session in January 2018. Neither track will appear on any Blanck Mass album. They are in a style that is not normally associated with Blanck Mass. BM wanted to do something special and as RSD is a special day for all music fans and collectors of one off releases by their favourite artists, this is the perfect release date. 


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