"Ben Frost's excellent album A U R O R A is getting a companion remix EP. It's called V A R I A N T, and it's out December 9 in the U.S. and December 8 in Europe via Mute (digitally; physical LPs will arrive in January). The EP features remixes from Evian Christ, Regis, Dutch E Germ, HTRK, and Kangding Ray."
"Iceland-based electronic musician Ben Frost returns next month with his brutal, noise-scorched new album A U R O R A. Ahead of his London show this week, he speaks with Tristan Bath about the making of the new album, traveling to the DR Congo as part of Richard Mosse's The Enclave project, and composing by ear in an age of visual music." Read on at thequietus.com
WNYC.org: "Ben Frost joins us in the studio to present the reimagined soundtrack for the 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky film." Read on
WNYC.org: "Eno was paired up with young Australian composer Ben Frost for a year of exchanging ideas. They join us to talk about the experience – and to share their recent projects, including Eno’s album with poet Rick Holland and Frost’s reimagined soundtrack for the 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky film Solaris." Read on
factmag.com. "The Iceland-based Australian has been heavily involved in music since the turn of the century, but his breakthrough as a recording artist came with the 2007 album Theory Of Machines, and his reputation was cemented by its 2009 follow-up, By The Throat. Influenced by noise, dark ambient, industrial, black metal and classical minimalism, these records are possessed of a power – emotional and moreover physical – that is simply astonishing. Not for nothing for The Wire once moved to describe Frost’s music as Arvo Pärt as arranged by Trent Reznor."
wny.org: "Australian-born, Iceland-based composer and sound artist Ben Frost shares his ghostly and paranoid new release "By The Throat." Using electronics, some field recordings of wolves and abrasive processed (tortured, really) guitars, he creates a dense, murky, and menacing musical experience of industrial machinery, orchestral drone and noise. Ben Frost, joins host John Schaefer to present selections from the album for this New Sounds." Read on/download the show
Ben Frost (born 1980 in Melbourne Australia, now based in Reykjavík, Iceland) is a musician, composer and producer, whose early work included the independently released ambient electronic Ep Music for Sad Children (2000). However Frost is probably most widely recognized for his experimental music drawing widely on influences of minimalism, post-punk, black metal and noise best demonstrated on the 2007 release "Theory of Machines". Read on
