Invada UK are offering an exclusive chance to pre-order
the Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury - DROKK 'mega edition' Box
Set and to stream and buy the digital album via bandcamp.
The DROKK 'mega-edition' Box Set is limited
to 400 copies. The bespoke embossed DROKKmetal film canisters will
contain two 10" heavyweight grey vinyl LP's (including extra tracks which
are not on the standard LP). It will also have a 'bunker' deluxe edition
CD with 'drokk-card' to access on-line bonus material, a DROKK t-shirt
(available in sizes S, M, L, XL & XXL) and a circular studio numbered
print.
Geoff Barrow is a founding member of Portishead and
producer/label owner of Invada Records UK. Ben
Salisbury is a soundtrack composer with over 200 film and TV credits
to his name, including David Attenborough’s ‘Life of Mammals’, ‘Life in
the Undergrowth’ and ‘Life in Cold Blood’. Barrow and Salisbury met
over 10 years ago when they both joined a Bristol football team for old
men. After many disastrous games they decided they might be more
productive working on a music project together. Other work commitments
kept them apart until late 2010, when the pair met up with a screenwriter to
discuss some possible work on a feature film project. Although their
involvement with this particular film did not continue, a collaborative writing
relationship had begun…
When Barrow and Salisbury revisited
and started expanding upon this early material they decided to continue writing
what was essentially soundtrack music. Barrow, along with album
designer and long term friend, Marc Bessant, were both avid 2000AD readers
from a young age, and the sprawling metropolis and classic stories of Mega-City
One seemed the ideal inspiration for this ‘soundtrack’.
DROKK was written in a 6 month period
between Barrow’s Portishead world tour and Salisbury’scomposing
jobs for the BBC. Although it is a soundtrack of sorts, Barrow and Salisburyinstinctively
felt that music for MC1 should steer clear of the rich orchestration common to
many contemporary film scores. Even for electronica the music is often
purposefully stark and spare, with the majority of tracks created exclusively
on the Oberhiem 2 Voice Synthesizer (a 1975 classic keyboard), and its onboard
sequencer used to create rhythm and drums sounds. The only exceptions are a
handful of tracks which combine the synth with digitally manipulated and time -
stretched performances of acoustic instruments (such as piano, violin,
mandolin, ukulele, voice and hammered dulcimer). There is also a brief
cameo from Barrow’s other band BEAK>.
DROKK will be released on 7th May on Invada
Records.
"2000 AD is delighted that Judge Dredd continues to
inspire artists in the year of the character’s 35th anniversary, especially
such high profile talents as Geoff and Ben. You can tell, from their vision of
the Big Meg, that they’re massive fans of the strip." 2000
AD
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