Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie & Dustin OHalloran) and more. Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie & Dustin OHalloran), The Celestial City (feat. Stream songs including So That the City Can Begin To Exist (feat. The ominous soundscapes of ‘The Dead Outnumber the Living’ contrast with the new beginnings that are presented in ‘Every Solstice & Equinox’, while the jagged and uneasy ‘Thirteenth Century Travelogue’ is one of tension and dread.Įlsewhere, ‘The Divided City’ captivates and intrigues while ‘Only Strings and Their Supports Remain’ and ‘There Is One of Which You Never Speak’ are bold roars for survival before the choral ambience of ‘Desires Are Already Memories’ and piercing drones of ‘Total Perspective Vortex’ bring down the curtain on a spectacular and incredibly emotive body of work. Listen to Invisible Cities by A Winged Victory For The Sullen on Apple Music. Transformed into 45 minutes of breathtaking beauty, ‘Invisible Cities’ opens with the numinous ‘So That the City Can Begin to Exist’, as Wiltzie and O'Halloran draw breath from distinctively enthralling and vastly expansive worlds. Originally conceived as a touring project, its last performance was in Brisbane, Australia before COVID-19 changed the world as we know it. Described by The Sunday Times as “a beautiful frenzy of movement”, it fuses theatre, music, dance, architectural design, and visuals and brings to life a series of fantastical places and disparate worlds, centered on the tense relationship between Kublai Khan, the volatile head of a vast empire, and explorer Marco Polo. Premiering to a sell-out audience in July 2019 at the Manchester International Festival, the duo was commissioned by Warner’s 59 Productions to score the music for the 90-minute multimedia theatrical stage show, adapted from Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel, ‘Invisible Cities’. Released on their own Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing label, the album comes as part of an agreement with A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s current label, Ninja Tune. ORDER: VINYL | CD | TAPE CASSETTE : bit.ly/3hQLdVVĪ Winged Victory for the Sullen, the collaboration between Adam Wiltzie & Dustin O'Halloran, release their 2021 album ‘Invisible Cities’, the stunning score to the critically acclaimed theatre production directed by London Olympics ceremony video designer Leo Warner. Incorporating a wash of eerie synths, beguiling string arrangements, limpid piano and uplifting choral vocals, AWVFTS’s latest venture deftly bridges the worlds of ambient tone-poem, neo-classical and post-rock with a consummate command of emotion and a mastery of sonic architecture.NEW: AWVFTS X DAVY EVANS: LIMITED-EDITION PRINTS: /shop/ Artists like Suicide and Scott Walker notably weaponized unease in their music, carving out whole spaces for. On the stately, Bach-inspired There is One of Which You Never Speak, the Stars Of The Lid founder and the seasoned soundtrack composer pair a low cello and piano to haunting effect, whilst Despair Dialogue mines the tranquillity of warm synth clusters whilst toying with bleary shards of static noise. Something looms on the horizon Fostering unease is no new concept for musicians. The sumptuous, cinematic and melancholy So That The City Can Begin To Exist opens the record with a doleful piano figure and dazzling synths, whilst the shape-shifting The Celestial City features dizzying swells of brass, distorted textures and angelic choral refrains that transport the listener to immersive captivation. Where Calvino’s literary style is discursive and rarely offers a linear narrative, so too AWVFTS peddle a musical alchemy that dispenses with any straightforward rock structures and revels in sudden and unexpected shifts in texture. The pair’s dreamy and regal soundscapes and the book’s elegant, postmodernist inquiry make for perfect companions, both engendering passion and fascination in equal measure. Helmed by theatre producer and video designer Leo Warner, Invisible Cities is part of a multi-media stage show interpretation of Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel of the same name that received its premiere in 2019 at the Manchester International Festival.
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