Released February 1984 Release date February 1984 Label Illuminated Records | Artist Throbbing Gristle Movie In the Shadow of the Sun Genre Industrial music | |
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Songs In the Shadow of the Sun, Part 1, In the Shadow of the Sun, Part 2 Similar Throbbing Gristle albums, Industrial music albums | ||
In the Shadow of the Sun is an improvised musical score by Throbbing Gristle for the 1981 Derek Jarman film of the same name.
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Background
In the Shadow of the Sun is an improvised musical score for the film of the same name by Derek Jarman. Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis P-Orridge called the film "ambient video", used to "enhance or complete an environment."
Musical style
Simon Ford, author of the Throbbing Gristle biography Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle, opined that both the movie and its accompanying soundtrack "revelled in distortion, chance and formlessness."
Live performances
Throbbing Gristle played a new version of the soundtrack live during their April 2009 United States tour.
Critical reception
The Wire described the soundtrack as "dark and mournful".
Track listing
All tracks written by Throbbing Gristle (Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Genesis P-Orridge).