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You can order the full 'Seven Hours' EP (CD/10" Vinyl/DL) out September 30 on Erased Tapes from http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP051

Lungful

Take in a breath and treasure the light
Don’t let them see you move, you've got nothing to prove
Hold out your palms and place them in mine
Don’t let me feel you shake, in fear they find mistake

Silence the song with bugles that play
You need to hear the call, they’re wishing you to fall
Don’t let them see you fail
I will not let you fail

© Douglas Dare 2013

Seven Hours (Bonus Digital Booklet Version)

Lungful

The new album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

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K&F Thema (pizzicato)

A Violent Sky

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Remix of the track 'Fragments of Self' from 'Fragmented Self' by Max Cooper and Tom Hodge.

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When trying to make creative decisions based on the results of somebody else's process it makes you try things out that perhaps you wouldn't normally think of and I'd say with every remix I've ever done I've come away with something new.  Sometimes its interesting to take a track in a completely new direction but in the case of Max and Tom's collaboration I was immediately drawn to the subtle harmonic undercurrent of the synth lines beneath the main piano parts and figured it would be interesting to put together an arrangement that brought that to the fore. 

I started with a rough layering and overlay of the piano samples - trying to re-arrange them into different combinations than in the original to create something that had the same feel (on a side note, its always pleasing to work with recordings like this of instruments that sound played - i.e., you can hear the movement of the pedals and the fingers on the keys rather than a surgically-extracted sequence of notes) but that came to the main melodies from a different angle.  I can't really compete with Max's glitchy rhythmic production and since this is so distinctive it seemed like a bit of a cop-out to make too much use of these samples in any case so in the end the main part of what I used of the rhythm was a short kick drum sample that I processed in various ways to create the studded melodic cross-rhythm that I used for most of the middle of the track.

With the bare bones in place the majority of the rest of the work came from layering up the arrangement with the kinds of synths and strings that I make use of in my Petrels stuff.  Like I said, I was drawn to the low root synth line in the original that casts a subtle melodic shade over the piano lines so using this as a starting point I slowly built up the orchestration around it so as to make it much more of a focal point.  In the end, hopefully the result is something akin to a huge group of assorted musicians attempting a spontaneous live version of what essentially started as a duet performance. Well that was the idea anyhow.

Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Fragments of Self (Petrels Remix)

Homework

A remix of the track "Always" by friend and producer Soosh I made a while back, maybe late 2011/2012. We never found a home for it but I met up with him recently in NYC and got the blessing to give it away. 
You can check out Soosh's music here: https://soundcloud.com/soosh

Soosh "Always" (Shigeto's What We've Been Thru Redux)

Transoceano

1st track out of the collaboration between Midival Punditz, Karsh Kale and Shekhar Kapur...

Today - MPKK with Shekhar Kapur

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Enstasy:
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Senbeii & Enstasy - Quietis

Ember

Falling Off the Edge

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Falling Off The Edge Feat Tahli

Evan Bartholomew - Borderlands - And Healing

Every age

Every Age

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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

EP3 is out 13th/14th April 2015
Limited edition vinyl coming soon
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Last Light

A free Xmas gift in form of a wonderful remix by French artist Montauk In February from Dustin, Adam and us to YOU.
Enjoy.

Love
Team Winged & Erased Tapes

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Symphony Pathetique (Montauk In February Remix)

This is a remix I did under my Heremita moniker of Polish sound artist Jacaszek, it cuts up and smears different parts of the original, adds a slow bassy beat, and couples the whole thing with an excerpt from Chris Watson’s ‘Bucaneve’ off of his Cima Verde album.

Listen to this if you want to chill out, basically. I have a new album that’s just about finished, watch yr dashboard or track ‘Heremita’ over the next couple of weeks for when I put up the bandcamp link (it will be a free d/l, if that encourages anyone).

Rytm To Niesmiertelnosc (Heremita Remix)

Original score composed for Indicus Films documentary about Tilly Anthony, a young female boxer from Derbyshire who is hoping to represent Great Britain in the 2016 olympic games. (vimeo.com/51388046)

'Contention' also appears in the following film projects:
• VIMEO STAFF PICK: 'A Frozen Tale' by Alexia Sinclair (http://vimeo.com/86472013)
• ZEAL Optics | BROS NOT PROS: Rich Tilton (vimeo.com/121951105)
• 'Romane Portail Showreel' by Luka Kellou (vimeo.com/75210851)
• 'Momentarily' by Håvard Fandrem (vimeo.com/65331191)
• 'TAB = Love' by Keith Hill (vimeo.com/61466737)

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Steve Gibbs - Contention

The first two tracks from my 2009 album Insides. Intended to be listened to together.
Get it here http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/26-03-09/insides/ - or on iTunes etc.


Jon Hopkins - The Wider Sun & Vessel

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Deep within us lives the Ecstatic Free Spirit.
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