Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal

by Adam Wiltzie

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1.	Buried At Westwood Memorial Park, In An Unmarked Grave, To The Left Of Walter Matthau 08:31	buy track
2.	Tissue Of Lies 03:20 video	buy track
3.	Pelagic Swell 03:09	buy track
4.	Stock Horror 04:24	buy track
5.	Dim Hopes 02:09	buy track
6.	As Above Perhaps So Below 04:08	buy track
7.	Mexican Helium 04:24	buy track
8.	We Were Vaporised 04:12	buy track
9.	(Don't Go Back To) Boogerville 02:18	buy track

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The latest suite by composer (and Stars Of The Lid co-founder) Adam Wiltzie took shape following a move north from Brussels into the Flemish countryside, although it was initially inspired by a recurring dream wherein “if someone listened to the music I created, then they would die.” The album uniquely evokes and evades the allure of oblivion, keening between beauty and ruin, forever unresolved. Wiltzie cites the barbiturate of the title as both muse and sacred escape: “When you are sitting face forward on the daily emotional meat grinder of life, I always wished I could have some, so I could just fall asleep automatically and the feeling would not be there anymore.”

Recorded at Wilzie’s home studio, with strings added in Budapest at the old Hungarian National radio facility (Magyar Radio), the tracks feel simultaneously intimate and infinite, unfolding vistas glimpsed in an inner space. Robert Hampson of English drone rock icons Loop mixed the album, further lending the music a sense of cinematic expanse and oblique hypnosis. These are fugue states as much as fugues in a literal classical music sense – smeared epiphanies of uncertain memory and spatial dislocation, coaxed from the unconscious and set aloft. 

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released April 5, 2024

RECORDING OXDONK, BELGIUM @ AANTALVIER STRINGS + ORCHESTRA RECORDING BUDAPEST, HUNGARY @ MAGYAR RADIO STUDIO 22

ORCHESTRATIONS ADAM WILTZIE - ROMAN VINUESA

CONDUCTOR PETER PEJSIK

ORCHESTRA CONTRACTOR MIKLOS LUKÁS @ EAST CONNECTION
MUSIC RECORDING MIX ROBERT HAMPSON @ THIRST MASTERING BO KONDREN @ CALYX

ADDITIONAL SOUND DESIGN & INSTRUMENTATION ROBERT HAMPSON - MARK NELSON - MICK LEMAIRE - BASSEL ABOUFAKER - CHESTER DESMOND

ARTWORK LAYOUT CRAIG MCCAFFREY

ARTWORK ILLUSTRATION RAFAL RUBAK
MANAGEMENT REDBIRDMUSIC

CONTACT ARTIFICIALPINEARCHFAILURES.ORG

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Adam may be best known for founding the seminal ambient classical projects Stars of the Lid, The Dead Texan, Aix Em Klemm, and A Winged Victory for the Sullen, He has also composed music for productions including Salero, The Yellow Birds, Iris, American Woman & Kevin MacDonalds tragic Whitney Houston documentary. ... more

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