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Phil Selway has written a new album, which is also the soundtrack for the new film, Let Me Go.

Let Me Go is based on Austrian-born Helga Schneider’s memoir of the same name. Schneider was just four years old when her mother, Traudi, walked out, never to return, in order to train as a guard in Germany’s concentration camps.

Helga never knew the truth until, as an adult, she decided to track her mother down in Vienna, to discover not only the horror of the past, but also of Traudi’s unashamedly proud memories of the most notorious camp of all, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Helga wouldn’t return to Vienna until thirty years later, when news arrived: Traudi was dying.

Selway already knew the film’s director, co-producer and writer Polly Steele and the co-producer Lizzie Pickering. The soundtrack was recorded with Nick Moorbath at his Oxford studio Evolution. String arrangements were by Laura Moody. The album features eleven instrumentals and three ballads, with words by Selway.

The track ‘Walk’ features Lou Rhodes (Lamb), who also appears in the film. Selway sings ‘Wide Open’ and ‘Let Me Go’ himself.

The album is released 27th October 2017 via Bella Union

Elizabeth Alker spoke to Phil to find out more

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