Arthur King - Unknown Movie Night (Jurassic Park)

The latest full-length release from the Los Angeles multidisciplinary art studio Arthur King, Unknown Movie Night (Jurassic Park), is out now AKP Recordings. Listen to the album below, and view the accompanying film collage of found footage HERE.

The album was recorded before a live audience in the backyard of Dangerbird Records alongside a screening of Spielberg’s 1993 classic Jurassic Park. The new live score captured that night is a compelling juxtaposition of wildly syncopated breakbeat action, pummeling industrial electronics, and airy tonal textures. The contributing musicians were Peter Walker (guitar and electronics), David Ralicke (horns), Denny Weston Jr. (drums), Shon Sullivan (keyboard), and Koool G Murder (bass and synthesizer). The live recordings were edited and mixed by Ralicke, whose sonic sculpting lends a dynamic cohesion to the tracks, matching the intense highs and lows of their original filmic inspiration.

Unknown Movie Night is an ongoing series in which Arthur King invites an audience to attend a movie screening with a live score. The “unknown” aspect is that neither band nor audience knows what film will play ahead of time, and the band improvises a complete score from beginning to end. In this way the audience and the band, together, discover a new interpretation of the visual piece. “With Unknown Movie Night, the film becomes the conductor”, says Peter Walker, “and we musicians follow its lead in establishing a roadmap for collective improvisation”.