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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

A child's dream

Piano M 7995 2:43 29-09-2025

more song dump!! ive probably shown off some of these elsewhere but i might as well dump em here...

id say these are from 2020-2021~

ADDITIONAL COMMENT: miss ya dawg, always thought you were cool and i hope you're still working on cool projects

Jasper

It's like the warm embrace of a true self, at last emerging from a long winter of alienation; an ode to radical authenticity and unabashed self-expression; a gentle reminder of the richness and interconnectedness of the human heart. To an increasingly cold and complex world, this waltz answers with simplicity and warmth—an expression of personal beauty and longing for connection, reaching out to other contemplative souls. It is the latest composition from Utah-based neoclassical pianist Daniel Driskill.

The Blackbird's Waltz

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We Are Still Shattered

Artist : Ed Carlsen
Track : Rain
Album : The Journey Tapes

CD/Digital : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-journey-tapes
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Ed Carlsen - Rain
Composed/Produced by Ed Carlsen
Ed Carlsen: piano, electric guitar
Bryony James: cello
Sophie Ryan: violin
Mastered by Francesco Donadello at Calyx Mastering Berlin

The Journey Tapes

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Ed Carlsen - Rain

Dismantle

Remove The Complexities

Drifting Among Strangers

Delicate Transitions

A three part series recorded over two evenings, it is a semi-improvised exploration through a limited number of technical and melodic patterns.

Composed, Performed & Recorded by Christopher Dicker. 
Artwork by Jarryd Cooper & Matt C White 
Mastered by Alex Saltz 
Released on Sonder House

Impromptu No. 1: Hope

Pianist & Composer

Ephemera, my full-length album is available on all streaming platforms.  

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You can reach me at: christopherdickerpiano@gmail.com