I didn't know where this was going when I started writing it, but as can often happen as a musician, I ended up with something that spoke of me personally. This is a direct result of pouring myself into a track.

And apparently, I didn't need to use words.

Originally recorded and mixed in July 2013.
Remastered in January 2017.

Most of the time I feel like I have to work at something before it's an acceptable product. This time, though, I spent one day, total, on writing, tracking, and mixing. I feel as though the music created itself. But, whether it did or not, I'm very, very happy with it. This song paints a picture, the way I believe all music should paint pictures. I can just see it in my head, and that is a beautiful thing.

Music really can talk.

THE PRODUCTION ===
PreSonus Studio One 2 Pro
PreSonus AudioBox 1818VSL
Dell XPS L502x
2x KRK Systems Rokit 5 RP5G2
Sony MDR-7506
Ibanez RG321MH
Squier MB-5
Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0
Native Instruments Guitar Rig 4/5
= Vox AC-30
= Ibanez Tube Screamer TS808
= Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man
= Electro-Harmonix Black Finger
= Pro Co RAT
= Ampeg SVT-2 Pro
= Little Reflektor
iZotope Ozone 5
Waves Kramer Master Tape (Ampex 350/351)

The Soul and the Soil

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Minutes From Somewhere Else

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CONTENT: ‘A Winged Victory For The Sullen’ is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O’Halloran. The duo agreed to leave the comfort zone of their home studios and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, hunting 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 with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial Bösendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then 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 dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination. In ‘Requiem For The Static King Part One’ – 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 of a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of sonic 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, as well as Erased Tapes label comrade Peter Broderick on violin. A Winged Victory For The Sullen is not a side project – it is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of.

CONTEXT: On May 24th 2007, in Bologna, Italy, Adam was on tour and playing with the late Mark Linkous & 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.

As announced by Pitchfork and Drowned In Sound the self-titled debut album of A Winged Victory For The Sullen will be released worldwide on September 9, 2011 via Erased Tapes Records (except for North America where it will be out on Kranky).

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears

Regicide

Cinematica 1

Northern Horizons

This is the first track to my new project, Aural Method's freshman release: "When I Drifted I Heard a Faint Melody".

If you like this perhaps you may enjoy the rest of the record. You can find it at http://www.auralmethod.com

Aural Method - As I awoke...

There are no human voices in this track; only guitar, bass and cello

This is track 11 of my new project, Aural Method's freshman release: "When I Drifted I Heard a Faint Melody".

If you like this perhaps you may enjoy the rest of the record. You can find it at www.auralmethod.com

Aural Method - I dreamed of choirs slow and steady. The song was ours, its woe was heavy

Post-rock and ambient music set to poetry by Matthew Kidd.