{"id":1914,"date":"2013-12-02T17:26:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T21:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/?page_id=1914"},"modified":"2020-11-25T22:24:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T02:24:58","slug":"btv069c-soporus-atomove-elektrarne","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/?page_id=1914","title":{"rendered":"BTV069c Soporus : At\u00f3mov\u00e9 Elektr\u00e1rne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nSoporus
\nAt\u00f3mov\u00e9 Elektr\u00e1rne (btv069c)
\nBuy Online<\/a>\u00a0| cdep\/2xLP<\/a><\/p>\n

Track listing:
\n1. Bohunice
\n2. 3.29.79
\n3. Surry II
\n4. Pripyat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Soporus (Latin meaning to lull to sleep) began playing live in autumn 2005 and was founded as an ambient side project of Saxon Shore’s Will Stichter and Matthew Stone. In early 2006, they scored the soundtrack for a documentary short film, \u201cRe Enactment\u201d, where children in war-torn Uganda explain tactics used by militia groups to recruit children for their war purposes. Their friend Andy Bruntel (Rilo Kiley, Bonnie Prince Billy, Mountain Goats) edited the film and enlisted their support. The duo began working on an ep for a 4 band 2xLP split for Burnt Toast Vinyl, resulting in a 4 song cdep with an alternate fifth song to be used for the vinyl split.<\/p>\n

At\u00f3mov\u00e9 Elektr\u00e1rne is thematically influenced by Stone\u2019s childhood growing up in Central PA. The events at Three Mile Island on 29 March 1979 are interwoven in family folklore. His father was working in Harrisburg, PA and was sent home with an evacuation seeming likely. His family lived less than 5 miles away at the time. Stone was only a year old at the time, but his interest in the nuclear power and accidents continues. The song titles are all connected to nuclear reactors that have experienced accidents. The title of the album, At\u00f3mov\u00e9 Elektr\u00e1rne, is the Czech company which opened the nuclear powerplants in present day Jaslovsk\u00e9 Bohunice, Slovakia. \u201cBohunice\u201d was the site of a nuclear accident in 1977 which resulted in the closing of one of the reactors at the site. \u201cSurry II\u201d is a reactor in Virginia where workers were scalded to death in both 1972 and again in 1986. The album closes with \u201cPripyat\u201d, referring to the location in the Ukraine that was home to perhaps the most devestating of all nuclear accidents–Chernobyl.<\/p>\n

Soporus\u2019 ambient music draws a parallel to these nuclear themes, tightly harnessing music of powerful energy and concentrating it in a beautiful, subtle package. Stone composed \u201cPripyat\u201d while looking at a photo of a Ferris wheel in the town post-Chernobyl and the song reflects the bleakness, sadness, and quiet beauty of the empty place. Elements of Soporus\u2019 ambience can be found in the mix of Saxon Shore\u2019s work, but for At\u00f3mov\u00e9 Elektr\u00e1rne it is the focal point.<\/p>\n

This is part of a four instrumental band series where each band was commissioned to fill an LP side with new music. Burnt Toast Vinyl will be releasing the four bands together as one double-LP set, but also as individual cdeps. The series includes Foxhole’s Push\/Pull, The Magic Lantern’s s\/t, Soporus’ At\u00f3mov\u00e9 Elektr\u00e1rne, and Questions in Dialect’s The Ghost Wishes to Speak.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soporus At\u00f3mov\u00e9 Elektr\u00e1rne (btv069c) Buy Online\u00a0| cdep\/2xLP Track listing: 1. Bohunice 2. 3.29.79 3. Surry II 4. Pripyat Soporus (Latin meaning to lull to sleep) began playing live in autumn 2005 and was founded as an ambient side project of Saxon Shore’s Will Stichter and Matthew Stone. In early 2006, they scored the soundtrack for a documentary short film, \u201cRe Enactment\u201d, where children in war-torn Uganda explain tactics used by militia groups to recruit children for their war purposes. Their friend Andy Bruntel (Rilo Kiley, Bonnie Prince Billy, Mountain Goats) edited the film and enlisted their support. The duo began working on an ep for a 4 band 2xLP split for Burnt Toast Vinyl, resulting in a 4 song cdep with an alternate fifth song to be used for the vinyl split. At\u00f3mov\u00e9 Elektr\u00e1rne is thematically influenced by Stone\u2019s childhood growing up in Central PA. The events at Three Mile Island on 29 March 1979 are interwoven in family folklore. His father was working in Harrisburg, PA and was sent home with an evacuation seeming likely. His family lived less than 5 miles away at the time. Stone was only a year old at the time, but his interest in…Continue readingBTV069c Soporus : At\u00f3mov\u00e9 Elektr\u00e1rne<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2128,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1914","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3823,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1914\/revisions\/3823"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}