Fly Pan Am have composed some of their most direct, visceral and immediately

satisfying music for the acclaimed modern dance piece FRONTERA by Montréalbased troupe Animals Of Distinction. Juxtaposing stern foreboding electronics

and minimalist motorik avant-rock, the Frontera studio album superbly captures

the bristling, sculpted, intensely evocative instrumental pieces that Fly Pan Am

developed in close conception and collaboration with the dancers. The Frontera

recordings track faithfully to the narrative of the original work, where eight

movements (featuring a company of 10 dancers) flow from controlled chaos and

tensely choreographed kinetics to slow, wrenchingly austere set pieces. This also

music stands powerfully and exceptionally well on its own, resonating with the

themes of the devastating dance piece. Oscillating between tension and release,

evoking anxious interzones and claustrophobic spaces, borders and surveillance,

resistance and separation, solidarity and cooperation, bodies blocked and

restrained, monitored and pursued, hiding and escaping, yearning and

overcoming - Frontera conveys an overarching landscape of forbidding and

foreclosure, of determined and desperate movement, and the unfathomable

multiplicities of trauma and resilience that occur under dehumanising

international apparatuses of inadmissibility and control. Deluxe 180gram vinyl

includes artworked inner and 6-panel fold-out insert featuring photographic stills

from the original dance production. RIYL: This Heat, Faust, Mika Vainio, Felicia

Atkinson, Lucretia Dalt, Moon Duo, Liars, Suuns, Mogwai

TRACKLISTING: 01. GRID / WALL 02. PARKOUR 03. SCANNER 04. SCALING

05. PARKOUR 2 06. BODY PRESSURE 07. FENCES 08. FRONTIER