A Winged Victory For The Sullen
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Invisible Cities (Black Vinyl LP) (Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing)
Format: Black Vinyl LP
Cat No: APAMFGLP4
A Winged Victory for the Sullen, the composer collaboration between Stars of the Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O'Halloran, are set to release new album ‘Invisible Cities’ on the 26th February 2021, the stunning score to the critically acclaimed theatre production directed by London Olympics ceremony video designer Leo Warner and produced by Manchester International Festival, Rambert, 59 Productions and Karl Sydow.
Premiering at Manchester International Festival in July 2019, Wiltzie and O'Halloran were commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Rambert, Brisbane Festival, Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival, Sadler’s Wells, SMG Live, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Cultural Centre (JACC) and Karl Sydowto to compose the music for the 90-minute multimedia stage show adapted from Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel. Centered on the tense relationship between Kublai Khan, the volatile head of a vast empire, and explorer Marco Polo, ‘Invisible Cities’ brings to life a sries of fantastical places and disparate worlds through the medium of theatre, music, dance, design and visuals. Described by The Sunday Times as “a beautiful frenzy of movement”, ‘Invisible Cities’ was originally conceived as a touring project with its last performance in Brisbane, Australia before COVID-19 changed the world as we know it.
TRACKLISTING:
1. So That the City Can Begin to Exist
2. The Celestial City
3. The Dead Outnumber the Living
4. Every Solstice & Equinox
5. Nothing of The City Touches the Earth
6. Thirteenth Century Travelogue
7. The Divided City
8. Only Strings and Their Supports Remain
9. There Is One of Which You Never Speak
10. Despair Dialogue
11. The Merchants of Seven Nations
12. Desires Are Already Memories
13. Total Perspective Vortex