Bronnt Industries Kapital - TURKSIB

TURKSIB

Bronnt Industries Kapital

Formats Tracks Price Buy
CD Double Album 22 tracks £10.00
12" Vinyl Double Album 22 tracks £18.00

Description

Bronnt Industries Kapital - TURKSIB

Turksib is the fourth long player from Bristol-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Guy Bartell, AKA Bronnt Industries Kapital. The album marks Bronnt’s first full length release since 2009’s Hard For Justice (released on Berlin’s Get Physical Records), praised as a “pumped up and muscle-shirted Eurodisco epic” by The Wire.

Turksib is taken from Bartell’s soundtrack to the acclaimed Russian film of the same name (1929, dir. Viktor Turin), commissioned by the British Film Institute and released as the centrepiece of The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Nightmail, a collection of films looking at the influence of Soviet propaganda on British filmmaking.

Turksib explores the clash of man, nature and machine in the building of the massive Siberia - Turkestan railway (one of the great achievements of the first Soviet Five Year Plan) through one of the most inhospitable deserts in the world, and is a picture of the civilisation of man versus the savagery of stark nature. Bronnt’s soundtrack takes a similarly epic sonic journey, pitching the metrical, electrical roar of industrialisation against the primitive folk drones and interwoven melodies of the natural order.

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All tracks written, performed and produced by Guy Bartell.
Additional psaltery on 'High Above The Thirsting Fields' and guitar on 'Forward The Machines' performed by Stephen Kerrison.

This album is comprised of music composed for the soundtrack to 'Turksib' from 'The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail' released by the British Film Institute.

Mastering by Mark Spivey
Sleeve and artwork by Ben Newman

Reviews

'Cracking stuff. Guy Bartell is a genius.' - Andrew Male, Stuart Maconie's Freakier Zone, BBC 6Music'
'A very fine and accomplished thing. Five Stars' - Jonny Trunk, Record Collector
A beautifully realised soundtrack.' - Norman Records

Tracklisting

CD Double Album (OWN003)
  1. A Land of Burning Heat
  2. Free the Land For Cotton
  3. In the Parched Fields of Turkestan
  4. High Above The Thirsting Fields
  5. Cotton for All Russia!
  6. The Barrier Between
  7. By Rocky Pastures Goes the Produce of the Land
  8. The Simoon
  9. Siberia
  10. Grain
  11. Out of the Hills and the Steppes
  12. The Tombs of the East Strand Sentry
  13. Strangers! (Aman-Ba, Comrades!)
  14. Headquarters
  15. Alma Ata
  16. 1445
  17. The Attack is Launched
  18. In Dust and Heat, the Dour Land is Broken
  19. Nomads
  20. The Train
  21. From North to South - From South to North
  22. Forward the Machines
12" Vinyl Double Album (OWN003)
  1. A Land of Burning Heat
  2. Free the Land For Cotton
  3. In the Parched Fields of Turkestan
  4. High Above The Thirsting Fields
  5. Cotton for All Russia!
  6. The Barrier Between
  7. By Rocky Pastures Goes the Produce of the Land
  8. The Simoon
  9. Siberia
  10. Grain
  11. Out of the Hills and the Steppes
  12. The Tombs of the East Strand Sentry
  13. Strangers! (Aman-Ba, Comrades!)
  14. Headquarters
  15. Alma Ata
  16. 1445
  17. The Attack is Launched
  18. In Dust and Heat, the Dour Land is Broken
  19. Nomads
  20. The Train
  21. From North to South - From South to North
  22. Forward the Machines