Those Who Walk Away 'Afterlife Requiem'

Post-classical composer, sound artist, and curator Matthew Patton returns with his second album as Those Who Walk Away. Afterlife Requiem is an elegy to friend and collaborator Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Drone, electroacoustics, and near-silences extracted from unfinished recordings on Jóhannsson hard drives, underpin two string quintets—Ghost Orchestra (Reykjavík) and Possible Orchestra (Winnipeg)—processed and erased in a doleful durational work.

Patton also works again with Andy Rudolph (Guy Maddin) and Paul Corley (Sigur Rós, Ben Frost) on co-production and sound design, to forge a simmering physicality that juxtaposes roiling low-end with haunting movements of ghostly strings.

Tracklisting:
The Beginning and the End
Seventh Degraded Hymn
Memorial Environment #4
Eighth Degraded Hymn
Memorial Environment #5
Ninth Degraded Hymn
Memorial Environment #6
Tenth Degraded Hymn
The End of Life in Sound