aaamusic | On 07, Oct 2011

A Winged Victory For The Sullen Release First Live Video, Debut Album Out Now On Erased Tapes

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“this emotive disc balances a hushed intimacy and vast expanse that places it in a unique sonic terrain.” 9/10 Drowned in Sound

‘Victorious’ The Guardian

“This meditative and cinematic set is a victory for subtlety and sensitivity.” BBC Music

‘Triumph’ Uncut

‘Gem’ 4 stars, MOJO

“A Winged Victory’s music, more active than drone and thicker than minimalism, captures movement and freezes it.” Pitchfork

“It’s a record of staggering beauty and unlikely to be matched in terms of depth of emotion by any other instrumental record in 2011.” The Line of Best Fit

Drone/modern classical duo A Winged Victory For The Sullen have released a live video, recently filmed in Brussels. This is the first live clip of the band to surface following the global critical acclaim their elegiac debut album ‘A Winged Victory For The Sullen’ has been receiving since it’s release on Erased Tapes (rest of world) and Kranky (USA) mid September 2011.

The clip is taken from the band’s first live radio session shot in former Sparklehorse and current Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie’s present home town. It deftly demonstrates how it’s Adam’s job to shoot the audience up into space with his washed-out guitar drone whilst Dustin O’Halloran brings them back to earth with his piano chords.

The song is fittingly called ‘We Played Some Open Chords And Rejoiced, For The Earth Had Circled The Sun Yet Another Year’ and was recorded courtesy of Studio Brussel.

This clip should whet appetites ahead of the duo’s plans to tour the UK in early 2012. Watch the video here:

Direct link is here along with some radio session tracks: http://www.stubru.be/media/awingedvictoryforthesullen

Hear ‘Requiem For The Static King Part One’, created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous: http://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/a-winged-victory-requiem-pt1

A Winged Victory For The Sullen came into being as of four years ago. On May 24th 2007, in Bologna, Italy, Adam was on tour and playing with the late Mark Linkous and 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.

‘A Winged Victory For The Sullen’ also features guest musicians Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir, as well as Erased Tapes label comrade Peter Broderick on violin.

A Winged Victory For The Sullen’s eponymous debut album out now on Erased Tapes. You can order it online here.