Dogma Theatre – Soundtrack (12″ Vinyl Edition, Grey)

Description

In the theatre environment it is not very common to publish incidental music from productions on media, especially not in the context of Slovak independent theatre. Trenčín’s Dogma Divadlo has now undertaken such a venture in collaboration with Deadred. The result is a compilation of original music from the productions Soundscapes. “Our initial idea was to materialize the atmosphere of our theatre productions in some interesting way. So we came up with the idea of recording traces of memory in the form of soundscapes, fragments compacted into two sides of a gramophone record”, explains the concept of the title by Kamil Bystrický, the head of the theatre ensemble. The soundscapes contain selected soundscapes from the Wellness productions on the “A” side of the record, while the “B” side is compiled from a selection of soundtracks from the productions Re: Capitulation, To je divadlo!, Binding Exit, Sovereigns, The Conservative, The Communal and Fool. The music for Wellness is composed by Milan Uhrík, who previously contributed a track from his electronic project HANDBAG to the DR* compilations Big Ears Are Afraid and Re(D)mixes. One of the authors of the music for the other productions on the “B” side of the record has also released his work here in the past – Richard Lalík is one of the members of ETTELLA DIAMANT, who left behind an eponymous EP as well as the excellent album Again. Martin Fačkovec completes the line-up of creators, who composed and produced some of the soundtracks himself and others in tandem with Lalík. The choice of soundscapes itself is varied in genre and atmosphere, oscillating from introverted ambient surfaces, chamber electronic structures, and world-music motifs, to almost cabaret-like forms and expressive choral performances.