Lakeshore Records releases 2000 Meters to Andriivka (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), with music by Grammy Award-winning composer, sound designer, and score composer Sam Slater.
In addition to today’s digital release, a limited-edition 180g vinyl is now available to preorder through Bandcamp featuring an 8-page photography booklet, field recordings of the Ukrainian Frontlines, and a liner-note essay about the record and its context. The vinyl is being released by Mt. Brings Death (distributed via State 51 Conspiracy).
The documentary film, from Oscar-winning filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov, integrates frontline documentary footage from Ukraine with immersive spatial sound design. Quiet yet powerfully affecting, the piece foregrounds listening as a means of bearing witness; an approach emblematic of Slater’s interest in the consonance of sound and story.
Slater says of the music, “The score for Mstylsav Chernov’s new documentary 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA demanded an energy-driven score — blunt, visceral, and aligned with its predominantly first-person perspective. Built around a dry funereal drum feeding back into itself, the score is volatile and relentless. Jakob Vasak’s snarling Kobophon and Kai Whitson’s spectral walkie-talkie textures hover anxiously above it. Voices and strings emerge warped and restless until the closing Mysteria ritual, where Hildur Guðnadóttir, Simon Goff, and Maria W Horn briefly resolve into mournful harmony, grounding us in grief as fallen soldiers’ names are summoned into the air.”
ABOUT 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA
From the Oscar®-winning team behind 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA documents the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war from a personal and devastating vantage point. Following his historic account of the civilian toll in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov turns his lens towards Ukrainian soldiers — who they are, where they came from, and the impossible decisions they face in the trenches as they fight for every inch of their land.
Amid a failing counteroffensive in 2023, Chernov and his AP colleague Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian brigade battling through approximately one mile of a heavily fortified forest on their mission to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka. Weaving together original footage, intensive Ukrainian Army bodycam video and powerful moments of reflection, 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA reveals with haunting intimacy, the farther the soldiers advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that, for them, this war may never end.
ABOUT SAM SLATER
Sam Slater is a composer and producer working at the intersection of experimental music, sound design, and contemporary storytelling. A two-time Grammy Award winner, his work has shaped critically acclaimed projects including Joker, Chernobyl, and Battlefield 2042. He has also received the SCL Award for Battlefield 2042, the Icelandic Music Award for Producer of the Year, and the Filmfare Award for Best Original Soundtrack for Netflix’s The Railway Men. Across forms and media, Slater treats sound not merely as accompaniment but as a structural and emotional anchor, constantly probing its potential to reshape attention, space, and narrative.
His recent project, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, created with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mstyslav Chernov, integrates frontline documentary footage from Ukraine with immersive spatial sound design. Quiet yet powerfully affecting, the piece foregrounds listening as a means of bearing witness; an approach emblematic of Slater’s interest in the consonance of sound and story.
As a collaborator and band member, Slater co-leads OSMIUM, an improvisational collaboration with Hildur Guðnadóttir, James Ginzburg, and Rully Shabara. The project, whose debut album was released in June 2025, employs augmented, custom-made robotic and electro-mechanical instruments, including Slater’s own self‑oscillating feedback drum, also utilized in the score for 2000 Meters to Andriivka. OSMIUM’s music fuses industrial textures, ritualistic density, and physical performance to create sound environments that resist categorization.
In his broader work, Slater moves fluidly between solo releases, installations, and collaborative scoring. Projects such as Vandals (with Theresa Baumgartner) and I Do Not Wish To Be Known As A Vandal explore decay, interference, and the architecture of listening spaces. His score for Battlefield 2042 (co-composed with Guðnadóttir) reimagined the language of interactive music, drawing on modular synthesis, live processing, and spatial composition to create a dynamic and unstable sonic environment.
Based in Berlin, Slater continues to develop work that challenges fixed categories, composing for orchestras, machines, field recordings, and spatial systems alike; always with an ear toward the edges of the medium.
About FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE, U.S. television’s longest running investigative documentary series, explores the issues of our times through powerful storytelling. FRONTLINE has won an Academy Award® as well as every major journalism and broadcasting award, including 110 Emmy Awards and 34 Peabody Awards. Visit pbs.org/frontline and follow us on YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook to learn more. FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and from Koo and Patricia Yuen.
VINYL RECORD PRE-ORDER: HERE
TRACKLIST
- Radio Silence
- Storm is Coming
- Andriivka
- Everything is Destroyed
- Heavy Breathing
- 2000 Meters
- 300 Meters
- Funeral of the Land
- 1000 Meters (DeClick)
- Will this War Go On forever
