"Fluid Reflections" invites you to dive into a world of serene electronic soundscapes, where trance waves and progressive vibrations flow seamlessly together. This instrumental album creates an ethereal atmosphere, blending uplifting melodies with mellow, atmospheric beats. Perfect for those who seek a tranquil yet energizing experience, "Fluid Reflections" is a sonic journey through the depths of progressive house and electronic dance music.

Fluid Reflections

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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

Sigur Rós - Untitled 4 (njósnavélin)

Samskeyti

Flight From The City (Jóhann Jóhannsson Cover)

Taken from 'Veriditas' LP by Helios out August 31, 2018.

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Veriditas

Helios - Seeming

'Bone' is the first taste of Ben Chatwin's brand new album 'Drone Signals', to be released on September 14th.

Using the final element of July's 'Staccato Signals' - recording a string quartet - as a starting point, Ben fed the strings through an array of modular synthesisers and utilised modern sampling and granular synthesis to remould the material into new microscopic electronic textures. 

"With 'Bone' I removed everything but the string quartet part from 'Fossils' and started to record new parts around it. Unlike most of the other tracks on 'Drone.' this too became a thickly textured track as I again engulfed the strings with a variety of synthetic textures allowing the strings to rise above it all for a brief moment towards the end of the track, resulting in what is probably the most dramatic moment on the album." - Ben Chatwin

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Ben Chatwin - Bone

Stars of the Lid  - Requiem For Dying Mothers, Part 1

from the album 'sketches from new brighton' available 9/10

loscil 'container ships'

Brian Eno - An Ending

Silencia is the latest collection of evocative and lustrous compositions by the Nashville duo Hammock. The band’s 10th LP, Silencia closes a trilogy that began with 2017’s Mysterium. It is a balm, gesturing at the healing that can ascend in silence. Slow-churning and contemplative, Silencia most prominently features strings orchestrated by Viktor Orri Árnason (Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds), mists of guitar by Hammock’s Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson, the hushed drone of horns, and 20 elegiac voices from the Budapest Art Choir. The record was mixed and mastered by Francesco Donadello (Winged Victory for the Sullen, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Ben Frost) in Berlin. Founded in 2003, Hammock’s music has appeared widely in film and television, and it has been praised by The Wire, NPR, Pitchfork, The Atlantic, and other major culture media. -Ryan Burleson

Silencia

Circular As Our Way

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Circular As Our Way (Silencia)

Piano roots, church soul, Trance energy, Jazz groove. I fuse emotion + innovation for seekers of sound that moves, heals & uplifts. 🎹 Hit play & feel the difference.

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I grew up behind a piano in a church band, where music wasn’t just played, it meant something. Today, I blend those roots with the pulse of Trance, atmospheric downtempo vibes, and sometimes with the smooth soul of Jazz. My music is a conversation: between classic and modern, faith and feeling, structure and freedom.

Every track I write aims to move more than just your body. It should stir something deeper. Whether you’re winding down, searching for peace, or just love rich harmonies and textured beats, my sound is for you.

This isn’t background noise. It’s music with heart, groove, and purpose.

🎶 Let’s connect through sound. Join the journey.

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