aaamusic | On 23, Oct 2011

A Winged Victory For The Sullen Announce First UK Tour In January 2012

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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

‘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 announced their first UK tour, set to take place in January 2012. This follows on from a recent short run of shows in Europe in support of the increasing global acclaim their elegiac debut album ‘A Winged Victory For The Sullen’ has received since it’s September release on Erased Tapes (rest of world) and Kranky (USA).

Here are the UK dates in full:

14/01/12 : Academy 3 – Manchester (UK)
15/01/12 : Oran Mor – Glasgow (UK)
16/01/12 : Cecil Sharpe House – London (UK)
17/01/12 : South Street – Reading (UK)
18/01/12 : Half Moon @ Cork Opera House – Cork (IE)
19/01/12 : The Sugar Club – Dublin (IE)

A Winged Victory For The Sullen recently released a debut live video taken from the band’s first live radio session shot in former Sparklehorse musician and current Stars of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie’s current home town of Brussels. 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.

Watch the video 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 or from all good independent record shops.