Rutger ZUYDERVELT with Ilia BELORUKOV and René AQUARIUS
“The Red Soul”

Sofa is proud to present Rutger Zuydervelt’s new album The Red Soul, a soundtrack of a movie by Jessica Gorter with the same name, featuring saxophonist Ilia Belorukov and percussionist René Aquarius.
After making several films without music, director Jessica Gorter went for a different approach for her recent film ‘The Red Soul’. Rutger Zuydervelt (aka Machinefabriek) was brought in to make the soundtrack for the documentary. They quickly agreed that the score needed to be very subtle, and not cliché-driven or overdramatic. An old bakelite record with a speech from Stalin and a few old LPs with Soviet songs became the starting point for the music. Fragments of these were sampled, transformed and combined with the saxophone of Ilia Belorukov and percussion by René Aquarius (of Dead Neanderthals). The result is a series of textural and tonal collages that evokes a sense of decay as well as (false) nostalgia, perfectly fitting the theme of the film. On the soundtrack album, the various parts of the score are assembled to be heard as one seamless piece – as a story in itself.