![]() ![]() 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. 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 series of fantastical places and disparate worlds through the medium of theatre, music, dance, design and visuals. 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. composer Dustin O'Halloran release new album ‘Invisible Cities’, 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. A double A-side digital-only single, "The Rhythm of a Dividing Pair"/"The Haunted Victorian Pencil" was released as The Undivided Five 's lead single on 24 September, the day of the album's announcement.Limited edition indies-only 'Ultra Clear' coloured vinyl.Ī Winged Victory for the Sullen, the composer collaboration between Stars of the Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. The album will be issued on CD, standard and deluxe-edition 180-gram LP and made available for digital download and streaming. It is A Winged Victory for the Sullen's debut release on the label the duo were previously signed to Erased Tapes Records in Europe and Kranky in North America. The Undivided Five was released on 1 November 2019 on Ninja Tune. The title is also a reference to the album's songs being "centered around the harmonic perfect fifth", "the five senses" and "the divine interval". Swedish abstract artist Hilma af Klint 's spiritist group "The Five" subsequently informed the album's themes and inspired the title. The album's theme was described as "a profound realisation of life, death, the afterlife, and the spaces in between". One of O'Halloran and Wiltzie's closest friends died at the beginning of The Undivided Five 's recording sessions, at which point O'Halloran also learned he was to become a father for the first time. Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, for whom the duo had completed a remix prior to his death in 2018, was also noted as an influence. In particular, O'Halloran and Wiltzie were influenced by French impressionist composer Claude Debussy, "whose big chords and complicated arrangements inform a lot of their approach" and who the opening track ("Our Lord Debussy") alludes to. The Undivided Five features 9 tracks, consisting of a mixture of strings, piano and modular synthesizers. ![]() The final mix was conducted at Vox Ton in Berlin, where all previous A Winged Victory for the Sullen releases had been mixed. O'Halloran and Wiltzie recorded additional grand piano at a woodland studio in northern Italy and "experimented with overdubs" at Australian composer Ben Frost 's studio in Reykjavík, Iceland. Orchestral samples were recorded at Studio 22 at Magyar Rádió, Hungary's official international broadcasting station, in Budapest and several parts of the album were rerecorded in Église du Béguinage in Brussels. A Winged Victory for the Sullen 's two members, Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie, recorded in their own respective studios in Berlin, Germany and Brussels, Belgium. The Undivided Five was produced in eight different recording studios across Europe. It was released on 1 November 2019 on Ninja Tune. The Undivided Five is the third studio album by the ambient music duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen. "The Rhythm of a Divided Pair"/"The Haunted Victorian Pencil". ![]()
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