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Eaten
Alive is the fifth studio album as Talvihorros for the experimental British
composer Ben Chatwin. Marking a move away from Chatwin's signature guitar sound
into a wide-ranging electronic sound palette, featuring his most direct and
uncompromising work to date.
The
album was born when Daniel Crossley, owner of Fluid Radio met with Ben in late
2010. The pair visited areas in East London where Daniel had lived for much of
his life, also the same area Ben found himself living. They shared stories and
memories, looking back at a past that featured loss, isolation, addiction and
abuse. As Ben explains:
"We
spent a weekend going to places where Dan had grown up, places that had stuck
in his head for various reasons. Dan shared with me some harrowing and
heartbreaking tales that eventually culminated in him battling with drug
addiction. I think Dan was incredibly brave to get out of the situation he
found himself in, get out of London, and live the life that he is living
today."
Eaten
Alive is the result of this encounter, as Chatwin looks both introspectively
and into the community where events like this can so readily happen. An album
that focuses on the darker recesses of life, where bold melodic ideas fight
with harsh noise and glacial ambience to create something organic, evolving and
physically arresting.