East India Youth to release extended version of Total Strife Forever
East India Youth will re-release his debut LP Total Strife Forever late this October with an added bonus: his live soundtrack, performed at Bestival 2013, for the original 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
The recently Mercury-nominated East India Youth has explained the inclusion 54-minute bonus track(s) in a statement:
"I was initially approached by people who were running the film section at Bestival 2013 to perform a live soundtrack to the 1916 silent version of ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’, directed by Stuart Paton. The film is a groundbreaking piece of cinematography, featuring as it does the first underwater sequences in a motion picture ever. The atmosphere and darkness of the underwater shots were a good fit for my general style, and I'd long been waiting to soundtrack a film so I jumped at the chance. My score is actually to a special edit of the film provided by the festival, and I performed it live to an audience of about six people at half past midnight immediately after playing my usual set in a different tent. Most of the work on the score was completed around the time I was doing the final mixing on ‘TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER’, so one of the pieces and quite a few of the effects I used on the album found their way onto the soundtrack as well. There are plenty of other departures here stylistically though. It was a big challenge for me creating this soundtrack, and while it is far from perfect, I do feel it's a good companion piece to ‘TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER’. Enjoy."
Watch the video for "Hinterland" below.
The expanded edition of Total Strife Forever will be released 27 October on Stolen.
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