"In April 2003, Philip Dodd, director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, approached Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe and suggested that they might write a new score for the film (Battleship Potemkin) and perform it as a free concert in Trafalgar Square as part of a series of events organised by the Mayor Of London" - information from wikipedia.
This was the starting point to something extraordinady in 21th Century recording. There is a few records as concentrated made in the "Noughties" and this one was even rudely ovelooked in the common media eventhough the public event gathered 26.000 people just to watch the greatness.
The record itself has been named as a Lowe/Tennant/Dresden Sinfoniker-record but for me and many others it is one of the essential Pet Shop Boys records. More ambitious than anything they've done before and maybe that might the reason they scored it in their own name. Anyhow it is a superb combination of ambitious electronic pop and symhony orchestra arrangement unlike anything other I know in its class. I suits perfectly as some kind of background music to everything you are doing or what's best, it can also be put in pieces and be played in combination with something else at a dj-gig or whatever. Just a perfect progressive multi-purpose album.
I hope you find yourself listening to it. I haven't tried it with the Eisenstein film yet, but will do it anytime soon and I will comment on how good it fits with the film material as soon as I'm done.
Listen to the album here:Pet Shop Boys – Battleship Potemkin
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