Launching our second Scene, we're delighted to present Alex Roth's award-winning original score for Celina Liesegang and Arturo Bandinelli's experimental short film Viscera. Set in an abandoned hotel on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, Viscera is a dance film exploring the relationship between time, memory and trauma. Roth's debut film score builds on his experiences recording guitar on soundtracks for TV shows such as Black Mirror (composed by Jon Opstad) and Silent Witness (by Sheridan Tongue). Here, as in his music for dance and theatre performances, Roth's compositional voice comes to the fore, blending his distinctively expressive guitar vocabulary with mercurial electronic textures to create a soundworld of orchestral scope.

Viscera has won awards at festivals around the world, including "Best Sound & Music" at Los Angeles' Experimental Film & Music Video Festival and "Best Dance Film" at Dreamers Of Dreams / New Renaissance Film Festival in London.

The digital EP is accompanied by a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL, created by using extremely long exposure times to capture entire scenes of the film in single images. These are available as A3 prints, which include a download of the music.

Viscera is streaming now on digital platforms. There are two places you can buy the music and the photographic prints: Bandcamp and a new release platform called Metalabel. We've been fans of (and early participants in) what ML is building and are delighted finally to share our first drop on the platform.

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