Album
Postcards from Babylon is a unique piece of 21st-century storytelling. Weaving Christian’s spoken-word narratives into Alex’s evocative music and samples, this ‘audio cinema’ takes us on a visceral journey through the physical and virtual landscapes of contemporary civilisation, searching for understanding, change and liberation.
Postcards from Babylon is a unique piece of 21st-century storytelling. Weaving Christian’s spoken-word narratives into Alex’s evocative music and samples, this ‘audio cinema’ takes us on a visceral journey through the physical and virtual landscapes of contemporary civilisation, searching for understanding, change and liberation.
LISTENING GUIDE:
For maximum effect, listen to PfB as you would watch a movie – uninterrupted and in a darkened room. Use the continuous mix and play through good speakers or headphones.
LISTENING GUIDE:
For maximum effect, listen to PfB as you would watch a movie – uninterrupted and in a darkened room. Use the continuous mix and play through good speakers or headphones.
TRACKLIST:
1. Welcome to the Metropolis
2. Exiles
3. Find Your Own
4. We Got Love
5. Ideas For Sale
6. Removing The Mask
7. Reclaim The Streets!
8. The Lines of Our Minds
9. The Ancient Way
10. The Way of the Dancer
11. Ceremony
12. The Web of Life
13. Grandfather
14. Civilisation
TRACKLIST:
1. Welcome to the Metropolis
2. Exiles
3. Find Your Own
4. We Got Love
5. Ideas For Sale
6. Removing The Mask
7. Reclaim The Streets!
8. The Lines of Our Minds
9. The Ancient Way
10. The Way of the Dancer
11. Ceremony
12. The Web of Life
13. Grandfather
14. Civilisation
PfB is a double-album, featuring both narrative & instrumental versions of the full 55minute journey mix as well as all the individual tracks.
PfB is a double-album, featuring both narrative & instrumental versions of the full 55minute journey mix as well as all the individual tracks.
SYNOPSIS:
We travel into the techno systems of international finance and bear witness to its global effects. We hit the dancefloor with the ecstasy generation, and move out to the streets with the anti-capitalist movement. From a City trader to a Kurdish refugee, we meet characters living at opposite ends of the economic spectrum and trying to figure out their situations.
The journey takes us to Japan to learn meditation from a Zen monk and to the English countryside to join a community of conscious dancers. Breaking out of the city and dreaming into the lucid rhythms of nature, we explore ways that creative subcultures resist the system and trace alternative pathways for the future.
SYNOPSIS:
We travel into the techno systems of international finance and bear witness to its global effects. We hit the dancefloor with the ecstasy generation, and move out to the streets with the anti-capitalist movement. From a City trader to a Kurdish refugee, we meet characters living at opposite ends of the economic spectrum and trying to figure out their situations.
The journey takes us to Japan to learn meditation from a Zen monk and to the English countryside to join a community of conscious dancers. Breaking out of the city and dreaming into the lucid rhythms of nature, we explore ways that creative subcultures resist the system and trace alternative pathways for the future.
Postcards from Babylon is a meditation on life, death and civilisation at the turn of the second millennium. Alex’s rich, diverse compositions and soundscapes span from the electronic to the acoustic, creating an immersive world into which Christian’s storytelling invites our cinematic imaginations. PfB is a call for engaged reflection on our times.
Postcards from Babylon is a meditation on life, death and civilisation at the turn of the second millennium. Alex’s rich, diverse compositions and soundscapes span from the electronic to the acoustic, creating an immersive world into which Christian’s storytelling invites our cinematic imaginations. PfB is a call for engaged reflection on our times.
Music composed, performed & produced by Alex Forster
Words written & performed by Christian de Sousa
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Alex Forster
Released June 25, 2019
& Premiered at the Ritzy Cinema, Brixton, London
Music composed, performed & produced by Alex Forster
Words written & performed by Christian de Sousa
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Alex Forster
Released June 25, 2019
& Premiered at the Ritzy Cinema, Brixton, London