| Artist |
Broadcast |
| Album Title: |
Berberian Sound Studio |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Soundtrack: Film Soundtrack |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
01/07/2013 |
| Label |
Warp Records |
| Catalog No |
WARPCD233 |
| Bar Code No |
0 01061 02332 4 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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A Breeze Through The Burford Spur (0:36)
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| 2.
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The Equestrian Vortex (1:21)
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| 3.
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Beautiful Hair (1:00)
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| 4.
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Malleus Maleficarum (0:45)
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| 5.
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Mark Of The Devil (0:40)
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| 6.
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Confession Modulation (0:27)
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| 7.
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Monica's Fall (0:24)
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| 8.
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Teresa's Song (Sorrow) (0:58)
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| 9.
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The North Downs Dimension (1:05)
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| 10.
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Collatina Is Coming (1:22)
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| 11.
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Such Tender Things (0:47)
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| 12.
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Teresa, Lark Of Ascension (3:37)
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| 13.
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Monica's Burial (Under The Junipers) (1:00)
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| 14.
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Found Scalded, Found Drowned (0:56)
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| 15.
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Monica (Her Parents Have Been Informed) (0:57)
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| 16.
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The Fifth Claw (1:26)
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| 17.
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Saducismus Triumphatus (0:33)
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| 18.
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The Gallops (1:04)
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| 19.
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They're Here, They're Under Us (0:23)
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| 20.
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Collatina, Mark Of Damnation (1:37)
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| 21.
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Treatise (1:02)
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| 22.
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A Goblin (0:32)
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| 23.
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The Equestrian Library (0:54)
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| 24.
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The Serpent's Semen (0:06)
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| 25.
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Burnt At The Stake (1:33)
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| 26.
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All Chiffchaffs (0:31)
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| 27.
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The Curfew After The Massacre (0:30)
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| 28.
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Poultry In Mind (0:24)
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| 29.
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The Sacred Marriage (1:12)
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| 30.
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Valeria's Burial (Under The Fort) (0:54)
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| 31.
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Edda's Burial (Under The Clumps) (0:41)
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| 32.
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The Game's Up (0:37)
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| 33.
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It Must've Been The Magpies (0:48)
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| 34.
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The Dormitory Window (0:58)
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| 35.
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Anima Di Cristo (0:31)
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| 36.
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His World Is My Shed (0:49)
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| 37.
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Collatina's Folly (0:47)
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| 38.
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Here Comes The Sabbath, There Goes The Cross (0:32)
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| 39.
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Our Darkest Sabbath (3:08)
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| Date Acquired |
09/24/2018 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Import_CDs |
| Purchase Price |
9.34 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide entry:
Discogs entry:
https://musicbrainz.org/release/38987e51-f578-4e85-b90e-6f6bb2f1de1b |
Notes |
Additional sound and dialogue licensed by The Match Factory
Music composed, played and performed by Broadcast - Trish Keenan and James Cargill
Artwork by House@Intro
(P) 2012 Warp Records Limited
(C) 2012 Warp Records Limited
Made in EU
Artwork – House
Composed By, Performer, Recorded By – Broadcast, James Cargill, Trish Keenan
Mastered By – Guy Davie
Other [Track Titles By] – Peter Strickland
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warp Records Limited
Copyright (c) – Warp Records Limited
Licensed From – The Match Factory
Published By – Warp Music
Mastered At – Electric Mastering
Designed At – Intro
Barcode (Text): 8 01061 02332 4
Barcode (String): 801061023324
Barcode (Scanned UPC as 13-digit GTIN): 0801061023324
Mastering SID Code: IFPI LY88
Mould SID Code: IFPI 1263
Matrix / Runout (In smaller type): 11/21/2012 7:09:39 AM 0000881859
Matrix / Runout: CA WARPCD233 @@
Label Code: LC02070
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Analyzed Folder: Berberian Sound Studio.[Warp - WARPCD233]_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR14 -0.13 dB -24.08 dB 01 - A Breeze Through The Burford Spur.flac
DR7 -0.20 dB -9.85 dB 02 - The Equestrian Vortex.flac
DR8 -0.16 dB -11.38 dB 03 - Beautiful Hair.flac
DR13 -2.83 dB -23.49 dB 04 - Malleus Maleficarum.flac
DR7 -0.16 dB -9.52 dB 05 - Mark Of The Devil.flac
DR9 -0.44 dB -14.09 dB 06 - Confession Modulation.flac
DR14 -0.43 dB -21.21 dB 07 - Monica's Fall.flac
DR13 -0.47 dB -19.24 dB 08 - Teresa's Song (Sorrow).flac
DR9 -0.32 dB -11.50 dB 09 - The North Downs Dimension.flac
DR9 -0.17 dB -11.42 dB 10 - Collatina Is Coming.flac
DR19 -0.09 dB -22.60 dB 11 - Such Tender Things.flac
DR9 -0.17 dB -11.40 dB 12 - Teresa, Lark Of Ascension.flac
DR10 -1.17 dB -17.20 dB 13 - Monica's Burial (Under The Junipers).flac
DR7 -0.16 dB -8.79 dB 14 - Found Scalded, Found Drowned.flac
DR8 -3.04 dB -13.74 dB 15 - Monica (Her Parents Have Been Informed).flac
DR6 -0.16 dB -11.80 dB 16 - The Fifth Claw.flac
DR15 -0.20 dB -19.57 dB 17 - Saducismus Triumphatus.flac
DR9 -1.38 dB -13.43 dB 18 - The Gallops.flac
DR16 -6.56 dB -27.83 dB 19 - They're Here, They're Under Us.flac
DR11 -4.45 dB -19.65 dB 20 - Collatina, Mark Of Damnation.flac
DR8 -3.44 dB -14.29 dB 21 - Treatise.flac
DR10 -0.17 dB -14.11 dB 22 - A Goblin.flac
DR8 -0.17 dB -9.15 dB 23 - The Equestrian Library.flac
DR9 -0.17 dB -13.51 dB 25 - Burnt At The Stake.flac
DR14 -11.82 dB -28.62 dB 26 - All Chiffchaffs.flac
DR8 -5.03 dB -15.91 dB 27 - The Curfew After The Massacre.flac
DR13 -1.89 dB -21.31 dB 28 - Poultry In Mind.flac
DR10 -0.17 dB -12.26 dB 29 - The Sacred Marriage.flac
DR10 -3.65 dB -16.41 dB 30 - Valeria's Burial (Under The Fort).flac
DR9 -2.05 dB -13.87 dB 31 - Edda's Burial (Under The Clumps).flac
DR3 -2.14 dB -7.78 dB 32 - The Game's Up.flac
DR9 -0.18 dB -13.50 dB 33 - It Must've Been The Magpies.flac
DR9 -1.58 dB -13.61 dB 34 - The Dormitory Window.flac
DR19 -4.44 dB -32.47 dB 35 - Anima Di Cristo.flac
DR8 -5.87 dB -16.85 dB 36 - His World Is My Shed.flac
DR7 -3.85 dB -12.38 dB 37 - Collatina's Folly.flac
DR12 -3.04 dB -20.42 dB 38 - Here Comes The Sabbath, There Goes The Cross.flac
DR9 -1.14 dB -14.68 dB 39 - Our Darkest Sabbath.flac
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Number of Files: 38
Official DR Value: DR10
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| Reviews |
AllMusic Review by Heather Phares:
Considering the influence cult films and their music had on Broadcast, it's fitting that the band wrote a score of their own. And since sound design -- particularly the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's groundbreaking work -- also played a significant part in their music, it's even more apt that they scored Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio, a film about Gilderoy, a hapless English sound engineer working on an Italian horror movie in 1976. The film in question, The Equestrian Vortex, is never shown, leaving audiences to envision its horrors as Gilderoy stabs watermelons, rips vegetables, and sizzles cooking oil to obtain the perfect terrifying sound. Similarly, Broadcast's music provides a vivid backdrop not just to The Equestrian Vortex, but Gilderoy's response to his part in crafting it. "Monica's Fall," which layers breaking glass, a blood-curdling scream, a screeching synth, and a sickening splat, needs no visuals to horrify, while the field recordings of laughing girls and chirping birds on "Such Tender Things" take on a deeper voyeuristic cast. Just as Strickland reinterprets Argento and other giallo masters, James Cargill and Trish Keenan take inspiration from Ennio Morricone and the other composers and engineers who shaped the feel of those films on a subtler, but arguably more lingering, level than their Grand Guignol visuals. Berberian Sound Studio recalls Broadcast & the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age in its brief, brilliant pieces, though the score is more restrained. Most of it is remarkably soft, full of whispery flutes, organs that teeter between sacred and sacrilegious, and melodies that nod to medieval music as well as the '70s. Keenan and Cargill present interlocking themes that create an air of quiet suspense masterfully: the graceful melody of "The North Downs Dimension" and "The Gallops" is demurely mysterious, while "It Must've Been the Magpies" and "His World Is My Shed" share a motif equally full of beauty and sinking dread. At the heart of the score is a circular melody that is tender and creepy in varying degrees, becoming increasingly claustrophobic on "Beautiful Hair," "Collatina Is Coming," and "The Dormitory Window." A few moments of pure horror pierce this delicate haze, whether it's the inhuman vocalizations on "The Fifth Claw" or "Found Scalded, Found Drowned"'s pulsing synths. Despite its homages, Berberian Sound Studio is unmistakably Broadcast. "The Equestrian Vortex" recalls the jazzy, psychedelic leanings of their early singles and The Noise Made by People, while "The Sacred Marriage" rivals Witch Cults in its trippy beauty. This score was the first new music Broadcast released after Keenan's untimely death from pneumonia in 2011, and the pieces with her vocals -- especially the spine-tingling "Teresa, Lark of Ascension" -- are all the more poignant. Clever, eerie, and beautiful, Berberian Sound Studio is the perfect accompaniment to a film that examines the nature of fear and sound's part in it, and it's wonderful to hear Cargill continue Broadcast's legacy with a project so tailored to their strengths.
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