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- Original Release Date: 9 Sep 2011
- Format - Music: MP3
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- Also available in CD Format
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| Play | 1. We Played Some Open Chords And Rejoiced, For The Earth Had Circled The Sun Yet Another Year | 6:18 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. Requiem For The Static King Part One | 2:45 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. Requiem For The Static King Part Two | 7:37 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. Minuet For A Cheap Piano Number Two | 3:09 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 5. Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears | 4:26 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 6. A Symphony Pathetique | 12:41 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 7. All Farewells Are Sudden | 7:35 | £0.89 |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The comments from the other reviewers are pretty close to the mark, in my opinion. I've enjoyed Stars of the Lid, for example, for years now and A Winged Victory ... do bear a passing similarity, hardly suprising given the involvement of Adam Wiltzie in the project. That said, Winged have their own sound, it's beautiful and haunting and I suspect what seems to be a superficial simplicity actually hides a lorry-load of skill and effort to achieve.
Mood really is important here, or rather your frame of mind plus your ambient circumstances. The combination will decide whether this music gets drowned out by a real-world hubbub or succeeds in magically washing you away. Get your frame right and this is an outstanding album. Well done.
Mood really is important here, or rather your frame of mind plus your ambient circumstances. The combination will decide whether this music gets drowned out by a real-world hubbub or succeeds in magically washing you away. Get your frame right and this is an outstanding album. Well done.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A pinch more variety for a year of music that's over-flowing with superlative releases from artists of every genre, hybrid and movement - a winged victory for the sullen are an instrumental duo providing compositions of monumentally beautiful, atmospheric and minimalistic(ish) neo-classical.
I'd describe this as Interior film-music. It aches with the same longing as Thomas Newman's soundtrack for the film `American Beauty', yet carries all the subjectivity to make this a malleable and deeply emotional journey for its audience, with absorbing strings and poignant piano shaping moods of melancholy and hope alike.
Using the word `Victory'; implying positivity, change and perseverance and the word `Sullen'; implying melancholy, depression and angst, the titled of this album and project couldn't be more apt. A piano of this quality and played this well can tell such a tale - with sad minor melodies occasionally finding jazzy yet hopeful resolutions, and the strings often a warming undercurrent, also provide thick chords which, although not `triumphant' sounding (I think `victory' and `triumph' and I think of fanfare) certainly help communicate moments of life affirming equilibrium in the sullen dirge.
For someone with my tastes and musical inclinations, those being more towards aggressive and raucous styles, this sort of music is extremely therapeutic and can accompany me while I work, travel, or just sit back and relax, wholly calm... it can also detoxify my ears of the brutality I so often subject them to. To some people, who would no doubt be a more suitable audience for this kind of music than myself, I'm certain this would be found to be quite heavy going and they may struggle to find nothing but pleasure, as I do, from the listening experience. This is no doubt subject to the sparse timbre and choice textures which may feel somewhat 'empty' and thus stark and sorrowful to some.
Speaking of timbre and textures, this feels like the metaphorical `yang' if `Deaf Center' (another compositional duo whose release `Owl Splinters' I have also reviewed) was the musical `yin', a band with a similar compositional approach, yet far more negativity is implied on a whole, with the latter being a far darker experience.
As far as I know this is `A Winged Victory's...' maiden voyage. I sincerely hope there's more to come...
I'd describe this as Interior film-music. It aches with the same longing as Thomas Newman's soundtrack for the film `American Beauty', yet carries all the subjectivity to make this a malleable and deeply emotional journey for its audience, with absorbing strings and poignant piano shaping moods of melancholy and hope alike.
Using the word `Victory'; implying positivity, change and perseverance and the word `Sullen'; implying melancholy, depression and angst, the titled of this album and project couldn't be more apt. A piano of this quality and played this well can tell such a tale - with sad minor melodies occasionally finding jazzy yet hopeful resolutions, and the strings often a warming undercurrent, also provide thick chords which, although not `triumphant' sounding (I think `victory' and `triumph' and I think of fanfare) certainly help communicate moments of life affirming equilibrium in the sullen dirge.
For someone with my tastes and musical inclinations, those being more towards aggressive and raucous styles, this sort of music is extremely therapeutic and can accompany me while I work, travel, or just sit back and relax, wholly calm... it can also detoxify my ears of the brutality I so often subject them to. To some people, who would no doubt be a more suitable audience for this kind of music than myself, I'm certain this would be found to be quite heavy going and they may struggle to find nothing but pleasure, as I do, from the listening experience. This is no doubt subject to the sparse timbre and choice textures which may feel somewhat 'empty' and thus stark and sorrowful to some.
Speaking of timbre and textures, this feels like the metaphorical `yang' if `Deaf Center' (another compositional duo whose release `Owl Splinters' I have also reviewed) was the musical `yin', a band with a similar compositional approach, yet far more negativity is implied on a whole, with the latter being a far darker experience.
As far as I know this is `A Winged Victory's...' maiden voyage. I sincerely hope there's more to come...
Format:Audio CD
I heard this by chance....an 'Amazon recommends'... Simply beautiful and track 6 is sheer bliss...turns me over inside! Will be with me a while...!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Smile
This would be better if was speeded up, had some drums, louder guitars and vocals. Something like Status Quo, maybe.
But seriously... Read more
But seriously... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Hey! Chico!
You need to be in the mood
Played at the right time when quiet contemplation is required, this is a good accompaniment. At other times, its plaintive melodies sound a bit too slow and meandery. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Stuart
Beautiful
Already a fan of Stars of the Lid and had been looking forward to this. Particularly like the track "Symphony Pathetique", lovely sad piano and haunting strings, recommend. Read more
Published 8 months ago by J. Johnston
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