Mere Mortals Floating Points & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

• 1 Movement 1 - Fire 05:25
• 2 Movement 2 - Hope 00:45
• 3 Movement 3 - Rage of the Gods 03:11
• 4 Movement 4 - Zeus’ Command 03:32
• 5 Movement 5 - Pandora’s Creation 06:42
• 6 Movement 6 - Pandora’s Theme 04:28
• 7 Movement 7 - Gift from the Gods 02:31
• 8 Movement 8 - Falling to Earth 09:19
• 9 Movement 9 - Prometheus’ Warning 03:31
• 10 Movement 10 - Her Gift 05:36
• 11 Movement 11 - Opening of the Jar 06:08
• 12 Movement 12 - A Plea 04:36
• 13 Movement 13 - Hope Taking Flight 01:39
• 14 Movement 14 - Nowhere to Land 03:55
• Total Runtime 01:01:18

Info for Mere Mortals

This upcoming album Mere Mortals is composer-producer Floating Points’s (Sam Shepherd) first full-length ballet score. Shepherd, who is known for mesmeric live sets that often combine acoustic and electronic instruments, wrote the work in response to a commission from Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director of San Francisco Ballet.

Inspired by the myth of Pandora and laced with metatextual poetry, Mere Mortals was premiered at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House in January 2024, directed by Rojo, with choreography by Aszure Barton and design and visuals by Hamill Industries. The score blends orchestral and electronic sounds to powerful effect, echoing the retelling of the myth by drawing parallels between Pandora’s story and the unforeseeable impact of scientific progress on our own society today.

Floating Points & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

Floating Points aka Sam Shepherd
is one of the most respected names in music today. Known for his versatility and insatiable pursuit of exceptional sound, Shepherd is a boundary-pushing composer, curator, producer, and DJ who creates sonic environments that transport the listener into another world. His recent projects include Promises (2021), a studio album in collaboration with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra that was named album of the year by Time Magazine and shortlisted for the Mercury Prize; Cascade (2024), his third studio album, which received a nomination at the 2025 Libera Awards; and Lazarus (2025), a soundtrack for the Japanese anime television series directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, created in collaboration with Kamasi Washington and Bonobo.

This album contains no booklet.