{"product_id":"michiel-de-malsche-the-discomfort-of-evening","title":"MICHIEL DE MALSCHE - THE DISCOMFORT OF EVENING","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: MEA043\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 19 Sep 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Experimental\/Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRACKS\u003cbr\u003e01 Wind Waker\u003cbr\u003e02 Mourning Silence\u003cbr\u003e03 Beatrix S Death March\u003cbr\u003e04 Compulsary Discomfort\u003cbr\u003e05 Daddy's Breakfast\u003cbr\u003e06 Mother's Downhill\u003cbr\u003e07 Awakenings\u003cbr\u003e08 Mating Season\u003cbr\u003e09 Sunday Church Day\u003cbr\u003e10 Smoking Chair\u003cbr\u003e11 Retaliation\u003cbr\u003e12 Physical Death\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Discomfort Of Evening is the incredible and original soundtrack by prolific Belgian composer Michiel de Malsche to 2020 International Booker Prize winner The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. Visceral and virtuosic, Rijneveld's novel follows Jas, a girl growing up in a devout Christian family that runs a Dutch dairy farm, whose brother dies in an accident after she wishes he would die instead of her rabbit. Lost in grief, her family falls apart as she becomes consumed by increasingly dangerous fantasies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichiel de Malsche has captured the atmosphere and spirit of Rijneveld's book perfectly, moving through moments of confrontation and introspection, sinking into spirals of despair, stasis and subtle hope and change. Brooding ambient basslines, driven by droning murmurs, are offset with melismatic electro-acoustic pieces that embody the novel's haunting and dissonant world, whilst also incorporating manipulated field recordings such as animal sounds and a church service, allowing for a full manifestation of Jas’s world in a completely new way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDe Malsche achieves this by rallying an unusual combination of acoustic instruments (16 in total) played by top-of-their-field musicians, creating a truly unique sound world and tonal palette, including an Ondes Martenot, a 7-stringed Chinese instrument called a guqin, a marimba, a string 6-tet, a toy piano and a bass flute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDe Malsche always confronts all emotional levels of his source material head-on, making his soundtrack into much more than just a fever dream. It is a precise description of, and accompaniment to, a devastatingly impactful book.\u003cbr\u003eMichiel De Malsche is a Belgian composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer. He studied classical composition at the conservatories of Rotterdam and Ghent. His music has been performed all over the world and he has composed and produced dozens of soundtracks for contemporary dance, theatre, movies and documentaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBesides his work as a contemporary classical composer, he is active as a studio musician and producer in the world of electronic music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MEAKUSMA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41958475104412,"sku":"MEA043","price":20.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_24b1f879-c8e3-499e-b506-c72998fd07d1.jpg?v=1663317192","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/michiel-de-malsche-the-discomfort-of-evening","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}