BEN FROST ANNOUNCES AUTUMN TOUR - LATEST ALBUM - A U R O R A – OUT NOW....
AN ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) IN ROLLING STONE, STEREOGUM, DROWNED IN SOUND AND THE 405
Ben Frost has just released details of his autumn live dates, announcing shows in Europe, Japan, Canada, US and Mexico. The tour starts on 20 September in Oslo and includes performances at Unsound festival (Poland), Mutek (Mexico) and ClubToClub (Italy) - with further dates to be announced.
These dates follow the release of Ben Frost’s acclaimed album, A U R O R A, out now on Mute / Bedroom Community (Iceland). Already a critics favourite, A U R O R A has featured heavily in the Albums of the Year So Far lists and is described by The Wire as “Frost’s most fully realised work to date”, by Crack magazine as “rich and rewarding electronic shamanism” and by Resident Advisor as “the darkest and most powerful recording of his career”.
The album was 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 (2009’s BY THE THROAT), A U R O R A is wholly absent of guitar, of piano, of string instruments and natural wooden intimacy. Instead, it offers a defiant new world of fiercely synthetic shapes and galactic interference, pummelling skins and pure metals.
BEN FROST L I V E
20 Sept - Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo, NORWAY
21 Sept - Landmark @ Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NORWAY
22 Sept - Tavastia, Helsinki, FINLAND
24 Sept - Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art, Kiev, UKRAINE
25 Sept - TodaysArt Festival, Den Haag, HOLLAND
26 Sept - Bozar Electronic Arts Festival, Brussels, BELGIUM
1 Oct - Conpass, Osaka, JAPAN
2 Oct - WWW presents, Tokyo, JAPAN
4 Oct - Amplifest 2014, Porto, PORTUGAL
5 Oct - Denovali Swingfest, Essen, GERMANY
16 Oct - Unsound Festival, Krakow, POLAND
19 Oct - Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, OH, USA
22 Oct - Sala Rossa, Montreal, QC, CANADA
23 Oct - Le Cercle, Quebec City, QC, CANDADA
25 Oct - MUTEK.MX2014, Mexico City, MEXICO
28 Oct - Club Los Globos, Los Angeles, CA, USA
29 Oct - Grey Area Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
5 Nov - RoBOt Paths, Bologna, ITALY
6 Nov - ClubToClub, Torino, ITALY
7 Nov - RomaEuropa Festival, Rome, ITALY
8 Nov - Time Zones, Bari, ITALY
20 Nov - Le Guess Who Festival?, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
21 Nov - St. Ghetto Festival, Bern, SWITZERLAND
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Listen to Ben Frost discussing A U R O R A HERE
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