microphones in the trees: a winged victory for the sullen

Saturday, September 24, 2011

a winged victory for the sullen

"A Winged Victory For the Sullen is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars of the Lid and The Dead Texan member Adam Wiltzie and composer Dustin OʼHalloran. The duo agreed to leave their normal home studio comfort zone and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, and to hunt 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 final result is seven landscapes of harmonic replicating ingemination. In “Requiem for the Static King Part 1″ they have taken the age old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of mellow 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”.
Guest musicians include Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir and violinist Peter Broderick. A Winged Victory is not a side project. This is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of." brainwashed/kranky

8 comments:

christine jones said...

beautiful. love it

borxes said...

Its your rip?

ana said...

nope, it's not my rip but i uploaded the album...why do you ask?

christine i'm glad you like it, by the way the cover art reminds a little bit of your draws

christine jones said...

(:

borxes said...

'cause is transcode everywhere.

Toxinho said...

La semana pasada me llegó el vinilo y tengo el código de descarga por si queréis un buen ripeo del disco. Os lo subo sin problemas. Un saludo

Anonymous said...

me puedes pasar el codigo para bajar el mp3 please

Toxinho said...

Os dejo el enlace que acabo de subir

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CHMOMTMU