Tetris 2023

Lorne Balfe is a Scottish composer and music producer who has worked on various film, television, and video game projects (Luther, His Dark Materials, Black Adam, Churchill, Top Gun…). The "Tetris Effect: Connected" soundtrack features a mix of electronic and orchestral music, with a focus on immersive and atmospheric soundscapes.
Tetris is a 2023 biographical thriller film directed by Jon S. Baird, written by Noah Pink, and starring Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, Anthony Boyle, Toby Jones and Roger Allam. It is based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris in the late 1980s during the Cold War.

A few months before the COVID-19 2020 lockdown, I received a CD labelled ‘Valdapozzo 05/30/2004’, from an unknown sender. Thinking it over, it came to me… yes! On that day we had performed a unique gig at Valdapozzo, the location where we had recorded the CD ‘Pic_nic@Valdapozzo’ just two years before. My first impression had been that of a great performance, though, actually, it sounded like a total mess. The rules of engagement for this gig were total improvisation based on the audio samples of Demetrio Stratos’ voice and some sequences of the album. For musicians, and not only for them, two years of lockdown meant the smoke of hundreds of cigarettes blown inside empty pockets. So, instead of playing Tetris, I resolved to edit the sound of the stereo tracks by fragmenting them into frequency bands, and remixing the whole lot to a new sound. This is the result, perhaps not a masterpiece, but passionately reworked.

Starting in 1994, Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson began solo recordings described as "experiments in texture," resulting in his work under the name Bass Communion.
A limited reissue of the 2003 CD of reconstructions of Bass Communion music by an incredible line-up of artists from the electronic, drone and experimental music scenes. Originally released as a single CD, this new edition on Aquarellist has been expanded to include a second CD containing 2 long remixes by Scorn (17.45) and Experimental Audio Research (10.45) that were omitted from the original version for reasons of space. These and the original interpretations by Lull, Monolake, Carbon Boy, Bola, Rapoon, Black Faction, Rhinoceros, Vidna Obmana…