For its second music release, multidisciplinary label Zyla presents Alex Roth's award-winning original score for Celina Liesegang and Arturo Bandinelli's experimental short film Viscera - Anatomy of a (non)human body. The 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.
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 shows such as Black Mirror (composed by Jon Opstad) and Silent Witness (by Sheridan Tongue), among many others.
Here, 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.
Music composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Alex Roth Drums: Simon Roth Mastered by Shawn Joseph at Optimum Mastering Artwork by MOAL