Gazelle Twin and Max de Wardener’s score to ‘The Power’, directed by BAFTA
nominated director Corinna Faith.
The CD comes as a fold out digisleeve with tube pocket.
The vinyl comes housed in a deluxe spined sleeve, pressed on white vinyl and
includes a double-sided printed insert and digital download card.
Taking about the soundtrack, Gazelle Twin expands, “Working on ‘The Power’ with
Corinna and Max didn’t feel much like work. It was a long-haul thrill, from our field trip
to the derelict wing of Goodmayes Hospital to record squeaky trolleys and smashed
pill bottles, to making countless experiments with samples, voice, and electronics,
pushing them in every extreme direction we could think of. The results bring me a lot
of joy. I hope the collaboration continues.”
Max de Wardener goes on to say, “For this score we tried to match Corinna’s
terrifying vision of the dark by creating music that was both as ambiguous as it was
frightening. Keeping the palette small to increase the feeling of claustrophobia, this
ranged from quiet dusty out of focus sounds, to full blown dense vocal textures with
pounding synths to evoke our primal fear of the unknown. Gazelle Twin’s brilliantly
inventive approach to vocal music became such an important part of the film.”
Summoning the spirit of classic ghost stories such as Susan Hill’s novel ‘The Woman
in Black’ and the intense psychological atmosphere of Dario Argento’s ‘Suspiria’,
‘The Power’ is set in a crumbling East London Royal Infirmary in 1974. The
supernatural thriller, written and directed by BAFTA nominated British filmmaker
Corinna Faith, will be available exclusively to stream on Shudder from April 2021.
Gazelle Twin, aka composer, musician and producer Elizabeth Bernholz, was
conceived in 2009, with the release of debut album, ‘The Entire City’. ‘Unflesh’
followed, in 2014, unveiling an onstage costume based on Bernholz’s teenage PE kit.
In 2016, Gazelle Twin created ‘Kingdom Come’, an audio-visual performance
depicting a fascist hell-scape based on JG Ballard’s final novel, released in 2017 and
in 2018 Bernholz’s third studio album ‘Pastoral’ was released to international acclaim
and went on to be an album of the year for the likes of The Quietus, Uncut, Loud &
Quiet, The Wire, Electronic Sound and 6Music. ‘Pastoral’’s unforgettable ‘red imp’
character is reflected in the costumes for Gazelle Twin’s next project with drone choir
NYX, ‘Deep England’.
Max de Wardener is a composer working in numerous and contrasting musical
environments. Film scores include two features for Pawel Pawlikovski (‘Last Resort’
and ‘Woman In The Fifth’), Sarah Gavron’s ‘Village At The End Of The World’ and
Tian Zhuangzhuang’s ‘Cry Of The Birds’, to be released later this year. Classical
commissions range from a percussion concerto for Colin Currie, to composing a new
work for the Indian Violinist virtuoso Kala Ramnath and the LSO. He has arranged
orchestral arrangements for artists such as Emiliana Torrini, UNKLE, Matthew
Herbert and Plaid. Max has released various electronic albums, most recently last
year’s ‘Music For Detuned Pianos’ performed by Kit Downes (ECM).