STEALING SHEEP AND THE RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP
LA PLANèTE SAUVAGE (FIRE RECORDS)
René Laloux's celebrated 1973 sci-fi animation 'La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet)', is overhauled with a re-imagined soundtrack by electronic modernists Stealing Sheep and legendary sound innovators The Radiophonic Workshop.
This exclusive release is part of Fire Records' re-imagined score series. "No institution has had a greater impact on the development of electronic music than the BBC Radiophonic Workshop." The Vinyl Factory It's a real pre-Avatar conundrum that Stealing Sheep, with the help of Bob Earland, Dick Mills and Roger Limb from the Radiophonic Workshop, unravel.
Creating an ethereal excursion that's narrated by Roger Limb; like a futuristic Martin Denny, or Dr Who gone ambient techno, with a hint of Forbidden Planet 50 years on.
It's an analogue swirl set in an off-world paradise; a field recording from the future.
This is a creative, generation-spanning, union brought together to score this unique cult film.
A must for fans of psyche electronica and Stealing Sheep's formidable 'Big Wows' album.
"Stealing Sheep devour a broad range of styles, incorporating everything from the dark dance-pop of Grace Jones to the experimentations of Radiophonic Workshop pioneer Delia Derbyshire and John Carpenter soundtracks." The Guardian 'La Planète Sauvage' is a thing of ambient beauty punctuated with electronic earworms that switches from intensely ominous to otherworldly dream like moments.