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A WINGED VICTORY
FOR THE SULLEN
Dustin O’Halloran
& Adam Wiltzie
Release date: 12
Settembre 2011
Label: Erased
Tapes/Self
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ARRIVO IL NUOVO CAPOLAVORO NEOCLASSICO: INTERAMENTE REALIZZATO DA DUSTIN O’HALLORAN
ED ADAM WILTZIE (STARS OF THE LID), A WINGED VICTORY FOR
THE SULLEN E’ UNO SPLENDIDO VIAGGIO SONORO
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Artist: A Winged Victory for the Sullen (DUSTIN O’HALLORAN + ADAM WILTZE
from Stars Of The Lid)
Album: A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Release Date: September 12
Label: Erased Tapes (ITALY & EUROPE & Rest of the world) ///
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Distribuzione italiana: SELF
Tracklist:
01 We Played Some
Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
02 Requiem for
the Static King Part One
03 Requiem for
the Static King Part Two
05 Minuet for a
Cheap Piano Number Two
05 Steep Hills of
Vicodin Tears
06 A Symphony
Pathetique
07 All Farewells
Are Sudden
Notes: Debut
album from this duo, which features Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and
composer Dustin OʼHalloran. Recorded in
large acoustic spaces on traditional instruments. Cellist Hildur Gudnadottir
and violinist Peter Broderick make guest appearances. "Requiem
for the Static King Part One" is in memory of Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous.
A
WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN
CONTENT: ‘A Winged
Victory For The Sullen’ is the first installment of the new
collaboration between Stars Of The Lid
founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A.
composer Dustin O’Halloran. The duo
agreed to leave the comfort zone of their home studios and develop the
recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, hunting down a selection of
9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other
traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and
bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies.
The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church
in Berlin on a 1950s imperial Bösendorfer
piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along
the River Spree. One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private
studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th
century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All
songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their
secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was
for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear
thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is
seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination. In ‘Requiem For The Static King Part One’ – created
in memory of the untimely passing of Mark
Linkous – they have taken the age-old idea of a string quartet and then
shot it out of a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of sonic bliss. Of the
13 minute track ‘Symphony Pathétique’,
Wiltzie says ‘after almost 20 years of
struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have
finally figured out what I am doing’. Notable guest musicians include
Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir,
as well as Erased Tapes label
comrade Peter Broderick on violin. A Winged Victory For The Sullen is not
a side project – it is the future of the late night record you have always
dreamed of.
CONTEXT: On May 24th
2007, in Bologna, Italy, Adam was on tour and playing with the late Mark
Linkous & his beloved Sparklehorse,
on what would be their final European tour. That night Adam invited friend and
colleague Francesco Donadello to see the concert, and Francesco's guest this
evening was composer Dustin O'Halloran (Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ O.S.T.).
Through a strange twist of backstage conversations surrounding passport cache
conundrums, and love of Italian gastronomy, a curious friendship began that now
has brought forth an offspring of truly curative compositions for the world to
savour.
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