Black Horizons For Bergman
12.22.14 by Ian Franklin

The holiday season can be a joyous time of year. But for all the Clark Griswold’s out there who’ve had quite enough merriment and are ready to settle into the long winter road ahead, San Francisco based label Black Horizons delivered a 3xC40 compilation of dark and bleak zones to accompany some of the classic films of Ingmar Bergman. “Frozen in Time II: Music To Accompany the Films of Ingmar Bergman” (a follow up to last year’s first volume) groups tracks from a nice range of artists including German Army, Micromelancolie + Sindre Bjerga, L’Acephale, Head Dress, Spettro Family, and Night Worship. The tracks are set to and compliment films including Passion of Anna, Seventh Seal, and with two tracks appearing for Cries and Whispers and Hour of The Wolf each, playing off this compilation’s predecessor Frozen In Time I which included soundtracks to the films Persona, Face to Face, Wild Strawberries, From the Life of the Marionettes, The Serpent’s Egg, and Summer with Monika.

December 13th saw a release party at Vacation Vinyl in L.A. with viewings of Cries and Whispers and Seventh Seal with clips of the comp and a live performance from Head Dress.

This 3CS black monolith comes in an edition of 200 on black tapes with silver labels laced with a 4-panel j card of silver offset printing on black linen paper with beautiful detail and art panels. Pick up a copy of Frozen in Time II from Black Horizons website ($23 in the US/more elsewhere), rent some Bergman flicks on the interweb, draw the blinds closed, and dip your toes in to the wadding pool of existential anxiety.