![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The album was finally released on 26 February 2021 by Artificial Pinearch in partnership with Ninja Tune. The track "Desires are Already Memories" was also delivered as the lead single from the album. The release of the album Invisible Cities was announced in December 2020, alongside the release of the album's cover art and tracklist. Wiltzie on the album-making process, Exclaim! Wiltzie explained in an interview:įour months is not a lot of time to create 90 minutes of music for a production using classical theatre, dance and high res video mapping on a stage the size of two football pitches. It was slated for a worldwide tour to follow, but the COVID-19 pandemic struck and all plans for tour events post-lockdown were scrapped, with the production practically shut down. It premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July 2019. The production's stage was inspired by Italian writer Italo Calvino's post-modern novel Invisible Cities (1972), which was written as a string of conversations between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo. The album was essentially conceived as the score of the dance theatre production. The duo, composed of Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran, have previously composed scores for numerous films and televisions, and so they were commissioned to compose the score for a 90-minute multimedia stage production directed by video designer Leo Warner. Invisible Cities follows the duo's 2019 studio album The Undivided Five. Music critics were generally favourable towards the album, with particular praise towards its instrumental soundscape. The record relies prominently on an instrumental production featuring piano chords, arpeggiated strings, and distortion. The album was composed as the score of a 90-minute multimedia theatre production that was inspired by Italo Calvino's 1972 novel of the same name. It was released on 26 February 2021 by Artificial Pinearch in association with Ninja Tune. Clarke’s author introduction to 2001: A Space Odyssey Total Perspective Vortex is lifted straight from The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.Invisible Cities is the fourth studio album by ambient music duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen. The Dead Outnumber the Living comes from Arthur C. Imagination is at the core of any version or interpretation of Calvino’s novel, from the conversations between the protagonists to the titles of the tracks here. Invisible not so much to the naked eye but invisible to the minutiae that bring a city to life.Īs a fan of reading in general, science-fiction specifically, I am reminded of James Blish’s Cities in Flight collection of short stories of cities physically leaving the Earth behind to wander the cosmos and find their destinies (note to self – dig that particular book out again) The title itself conjures images of silhouetted skylines, monoliths striking up the canvas of the sky’s background. Though I am without sight of book or show, I have done some research prior to writing this out as such, I will try to balance everything together – interpreting here, extrapolating there the intentions of Calvino and his character’s imaginary scenarios, and what Wiltzie & O’Halloran are attempting to convey. One assumes that, as Wlitzie states:Įarly on in discussions with director Leo Warner it was realised that the human voice would take a central role in the score as it was essentially the only instrument we could see evolving over 600 years with a storyline that would not have the listener screaming “its Zimmertime”…,” the removal of the human voice has resulted in the halving of the original score. After premiering at the 2019 Manchester International Festival the 90-minute score has been transformed into an LP of roughly half the length of the multi-media performance. ![]()
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