Original Soundtrack

Years in the making, the Soundtrack to Postcards from Babylon brings the project into a new dimension, at a time when many of the themes of PfB have intensified and grown in mainstream awareness. Weaving together Alex Forster’s evocative music and Christian de Sousa’s spoken-word narratives drawn from the texts of the book, the album takes us on a visceral journey through the physical and virtual landscapes of capitalist civilisation, searching for understanding, change and liberation.

Synopsis:
The soundtrack takes the main pathways from the Unreal Cities and Breaking Out of Babylon sections of the book and creates a new journey, this time in audio dreaming. We travel into the techno systems of international finance and bear witness to its global effects. We hit the dancefloor with the ecstasy generation and move out to the streets with the anti-capitalist movement. From a City trader to a Kurdish refugee, we meet characters living at opposite ends of the economic spectrum and trying to figure out their situations. The journey takes us to Japan to learn meditation from a Zen monk and to the English countryside to join a community of conscious dancers. Breaking out of the city and dreaming into the lucid rhythms of nature, we explore ways that creative subcultures resist the system and trace alternative pathways for the future.

The PfB soundtrack is a meditation on life, death and civilisation. Alex’s rich, diverse compositions and soundscapes span from the electronic to the acoustic, creating an immersive world into which Christian’s storytelling invites our cinematic imaginations, and calls for engaged reflection on our times.

Listening Guide:
For maximum effect, listen to PfB as you would watch a movie – uninterrupted & in a darkened room. Use the continuous mix and play through good speakers or headphones.

Track-listing:
1. PfB Continuous Mix
2. Welcome to the Metropolis
3. Exiles
4. Find Your Own / We Got Love
5. Ideas for Sale
6. Removing the Mask
7. Reclaim the Streets!
8. The Lines of our Minds
9. The Ancient Way
10. The Way of the Dancer
11. Ceremony
12. The Web of Life
13. Grandfather
14. Civilisation

Music composed, performed & produced by Alex Forster
Words written & performed by Christian de Sousa
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Alex Forster

The double-album package contains the full 55minute journey as both spoken and instrumental continuous mixes, along with individual files of all the tracks, also in both spoken and instrumental versions.
Click the Bandcamp player above to sample and purchase, or get it as a bundle with the book here

Alex is a musician, producer and film-maker. alexforster.net
Christian is an artist & facilitator. luminousworlds.net

For all PfB enquiries: drop us a line at ten.noylbabmorfsdractsopnull@tcatnoc

DJ Mix – Make Your Transition

DJ-mix soundtrack to PfB. Put it on while reading or looking at the book, or else use it as a medicine wave: make a space to move, turn the lights down and the sound up, and take the journey as a dancer. Mixed by Polarone.

Tracklisting:
01. Intro – (urban street recording)
02. Mass Transit Railway – Monolake
03. Architecture – Inner Zone Orchestra
04. Reach For The Dead – Boards of Canada
05. Who Am I – Peace Orchestra
06. Future Traffic Song – Ashtrax
07. Hard Time Pressure In A Babylon – Iration Steppas
08. El Capitalismo Foråneo (Antipop Consortium remix) – Gotan Project
09. No Justice – Smith & Mighty Feat. Rudy Lee
10. These Are The Days – Red Seal
11. Back From Exile – Breitbannt
12. Phase Drums – Joe Claussell, Jerome Sydenham
13. Erosion – Vibrasphere
14. Transition (acapella) – Underground Resistance
15. Sandcastles (Afterlife mix) – Jerome Sydenham, Dennis Ferrer
16. Pleureuse – Gabon People
17. Happiness – Aaron Andreas Gantenbein
18. Calm Upon You – Ravid
19. Heal – Aaron Andreas Gantenbein
20. Fading Sun – Terje Isungset