***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received a 7.3 rating from Pitchfork. After releasing a first glimpse in the form of the Atomos VII EP earlier this year, A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN reveal their second full-length album entitled Atomos which sees the duo introduce flurries of electronics, harp and modular synthesizers to their sound in the follow-up to the 2011 self- titled album. In 2013 AWVFTS caught the ear of WAYNE MCGREGOR, founder of Random Dance Company and resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet, who is perhaps best known for his choreography work on the Radiohead video 'Lotus Flower' as well as 'Ingenueʼ by Atoms For Peace. McGregor used the debut album as the warm-up music during practice sessions for Random, and after noticing the group's reaction with the music, he contacted ADAM and DUSTIN to see if they would write the score for his new work. Given complete artistic freedom, the duo treated the score with the same care and attention as their debut full-length by recording more than sixty minutes of music over a four-month period across studios in Brussels, Berlin and Reykjavik with the help of their long time collaborative sound engineer FRANCESCO DONADELLO. During the process they came to the realization that this would become their official second studio album. McGregor provided them with the inspiration to expand their sound palette into more electronic territory, whilst keeping their signature chamber sound, resulting in a very unique release.
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10/14/2014
***BACK IN STOCK!!! This new EP from A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN heralds the arrival of a new full length album later this year, a score for choreographer WAYNE MCGREGOR’s long form dance piece of the same name. McGregor, mastermind behind "Random Dance Company", and resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet since 2006, is known in popular culture circles for serving as movement director for the film, Harry Potter' and the 'Goblet of Fire. He has also choreographed the Radiohead video 'Lotus Flower' and 'Ingenue' by Atoms for Peace. McGregor was influenced by the duo's 2011 self-titled debut, playing it repeatedly during practices with his core group of dancers. After noticing the group's reaction with the music, he contacted AWVftS to see if they *would write the score for his new oeuvre and the collaboration was begun. As a final note of symbiosis, the EP also sees the involvement of BEN FROST, who composed McGregors previous work 'Far'. The title track is taken from the upcoming full length album Atomos, track 2 is an outtake from AWVftSʼs debut album, and the final track is a remix of the title track by Ben Frost. No Export to Europe, The UK or Japan.
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***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received a 7.3 rating from Pitchfork. A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN is the first installment of the new collaboration between STARS OF THE LID member ADAM 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...
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