Composer-producer-musician-DJ Floating Points, aka Sam Shepherd, presents 'Mere Mortals', his first full-length ballet score. Commissioned and directed by the San Francisco Ballet's artistic director Tamara Rojo, with choreography by Aszure Barton and design and visuals by Hamill Industries, the ballet reimagines the story of Pandora in a fusion of myth, music and movement. Recorded with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon, the 14-track album is a potent mix of elegiac strings, apocalyptic brass and pulsing electronics. From the lyrical solo violin of 'Hope' to the dissonance and pummelling percussion of 'Rage of the Gods', and the exquisite harp melody of 'Her Gift' before the eeriness of 'Opening of the Jar', the score is rich in texture and effect. Orchestral music emerges from an electronic haze, mirroring the ballet's central question: where does the human end and the machine begin?

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Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Fire

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

2.Hope

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

3.Rage of the Gods

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

4.Zeus' Command

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

5.Pandora's Creation

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

6.Pandora's Theme

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

7.Gift from the Gods

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

8.Falling to Earth

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

9.Prometheus' Warning

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

Disc 2

Track name

Artist

1.Her Gift

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

2.Opening of the Jar

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

3.A Plea

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

4.Hope Taking Flight

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

5.Nowhere to Land

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

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