A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN
TOUR KICKS OFF TOMORROW
Listen to "Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears" via Pitchfork:
"Four Stars. Genuinely moving. Another victory for the Post-Classical scene." - Uncut
"It's an immersive, and inevitably cinematic, ambient gem." - MOJO
"A celestial incantation to silence all commotion." - Drowned in Sound
LOS ANGELES, CA - October 28, 2011 - A Winged Victory for the Sullen, the collaboration of Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie of ambient drone outfit Stars of the Lid and pianist/composer Dustin O'Halloran, will begin their first-ever North American tour tomorrow, October 29 at St. Mary's Hamilton Village in Philadelphia. The group will perform music from their acclaimed self-titled debut album, which was released on Kranky to great critical acclaim in September. The duo will switch off between piano and guitar and be accompanied by ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble). Video projections will be provided by Christina Vantzou and support will come from fellow Kranky acts Benoit Piolard and Ken Camden.
A
Winged Victory For the Sullen is the first installment of the
new collaboration between Stars of the Lid founder Adam Bryanbaum
Wiltzie and composer Dustin O'Halloran. 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 recordings began in one late night
session in the famed Grunewald Church in west Berlin on a 1950s imperial
Boesendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin
DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last final session in a
private studio deep in the norther cusp of Italy on a handmade Fazioli
piano, and the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near
Ferrara, Italy, with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs
were 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 live dangerously, realizing that clear
thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final
result is seven landscapes of harmonic replicating ingemination. In
"Requiem for the Static King Part 1" (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 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." Notable guest musicians include Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir, and violinist Peter Broderick. A Winged Victory for the Sullen is not a side project. This is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of.
A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN ON TOUR
October 29 - Philadelphia, PA @ St. Mary's Hamilton Village
October 30 - New York, NY @ West Park Presbyterian Church
October 31 - Montreal, QC @ Casa del Popolo
November 1 - Toronto, ON @ Drake Hotel
November 2 - Pittsburgh, PA @ The Warhol @ Carnegie Museum of Art
November 3 - Cincinnati, OH @ Southgate House
November 5 - St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
November 6 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
November 7 - Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center
November 10 - Seattle, WA @ The Triple Door
November 12 - Portland, OR @ Holocene
November 14 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
November 15 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite
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