In the run up to the release of Ben Frost’s critically acclaimed new album, A U R O R A, the third and final in a triptych of films created by Trevor Tweeten and Richard Mosse has been released. Watch the film here: https://vimeo.com/95226641. A U R O R A, Frost’s fifth studio album, is released on 26 May and, following an incredible headline performance at the Village Underground, London, a series of new dates including the ATP, Pitchfork and Primavera Sound Jabberwocky festival, London on 15 August, have been announced (full details below).A U R O R A is performed by Ben Frost with Greg Fox, Shahzad Ismaily and Thor Harris and largely written in Eastern DR Congo. 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.
BEN FROST :: L I V E
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
13 June – La Machine du Moulin Rouge, Paris, FRANCE
11 July – ATP Festival, ICELAND
15 August – Jabberwocky Festival, London, ENGLAND
Richard Mosse, who collaborated with Ben Frost and Trevor Tweeten for the incredible installation The Enclave – http://vimeo.com/67115692 – has just been awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014, further info here: http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk.
Source: Mute Records / Photo: Börkur Sigthorsson
