|
''Nostromo'' is the debut album by dark ambient artist SleepResearch Facility. The original release in 2001 was a limited edition (only 1000 copies were manufactured), and has now sold out. However, a re-issue was released on 5 December 2007, which includes a new bonus track called "Narcissus".〔(Cold Spring Records: Sleep Research Facility: Nostromo (CSR34CD) )〕 == Overview and inspiration == ''Nostromo'' is mainly inspired by the fictional spaceship of the same name in the 1979 science fiction/horror film ''Alien''. Kevin Doherty, the single member of SleepResearch Facility, has described this film as "a masterpiece of dark atmospheres and brooding suspense", adding that it is "my all time favorite film".〔Ortus Obscurum interview〕 At the beginning of the film, the ship is travelling through deep space, and its seven human crew members are unconscious in hypersleep. The ship is dark and quiet, but not silent – all manner of mechanical and electronic systems are slowly ticking over, producing a ceaseless flow of low background noise. The album ''Nostromo'' explores this shadowy, haunting atmosphere, taking the listener on a deep aural journey through the ship's decks. In the film, the ''Nostromo'' has three decks (A, B and C),〔(The Alien Universe Timeline - Vehicles and Planets )〕 but the album adds two more fictitious decks, D and E, with one CD track per deck. Each track flows smoothly into the next, with no gaps of silence in-between, and as with all of SleepResearch_Facility's music, ''Nostromo'' is very sleep-conducive if played at low volume. The bonus track ''Narcissus'' on the 2007 reissue is named after the fictional spaceship in ''Alien''; the ''Narcissus'' is the lifeboat of the ''Nostromo''. The album's main aural components are: loops of deep pulsating bass (especially in "a-deck" and "d-deck"), washes of smooth industrial noise, mysterious droning synthesiser chords (particularly in "b-deck" and "c-deck"), electrostatic crackling, and other deep mechanical sounds. Kevin Doherty has said that the creation of ''Nostromo'' involved "synthesisers and such to generate things, lots of studio equipment like effects machines, radios, waves of feedback from analogue equipment looping back on itself and a big mixing desk to bind it all together on."〔Foreshadow Magazine interview〕 More detailed information about the album's creation and inspiration can be found in the three known interviews with SleepResearch_Facility. The CD booklet contains the following text: * "Deep within Mother's mass the seven slept, frozen in caskets of ice..." * "Quietly, she made her way home, only the quake and rumble of her mighty engines breaking the silence of endless vacuum..." * "Shhh... In space no one can hear you dream..." The third sentence is a variation on the well-known tagline from ''Alien'': "In space no one can hear you scream." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nostromo (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|