![]() ![]() As ‘There Is One Of Which You Never Speak’ progresses these electronics are more pronounced when, during the final third, they become this fidgeting wall of static noise. After opening with an embracing swell of strings and tender piano, an undercurrent of subtle electronics starts to become, well, less subtle. The standout moment on the album takes place during ‘There Is One Of Which You Never Speak’. It embraces us with open arms, hinting at the sonic beauty we are about to experience whilst dousing us with dazzling melodies. ‘So That The City Can Begin To Exist’ kicks things off with a delicate piano refrain and synths that create gentle maelstroms. The show mixed theatre, music, dance, architectural design, and stunning visuals to bring to life the conversations in the book. It’s a rich read, which allows the music to be so varied and compelling. Polo’s responses are in the form of prose poetry and act as parables to life and human nature. Khan is asking Polo about cities in his ever-expanding empire that has, and will, never see. The book is a series of conversations between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo. ![]() The album is a collaboration with Leo Warner’s theatre production with is based on Italo Calvino’s classic novel Invisible Cities. This feeling comes across when listening to the ‘Invisible Cities’ by A Winged Victory For The Sullen. It might have been unfamiliar to us, but we understood its dynamics. As we flaneured about, avoiding tourist spots, we found a new appreciation for the city. Before we left one of our lectures told that that the best thing to do in a new city was meander at will and to get lost. Bottom line, you will be rewarded, so go ahead and buy this, it will be worth it.When I was at college we went on a trip to Paris. I am listening to this as I write the review and there is already a feeing for me that I need to play this over a few times as it feels like a body of work not a collection of tracks. One thing I can say to anyone wanting to know if they shoud be getting this release, every AWVFTS release has grown on me, whether over a period of time of by repeated plays. They continue to challenge me as a listener. This is heightened by the various compositional styles they use for each piece, some seemingly experimental, others very AWVFTS like. ![]() This release sees the team moving around in different ways as they paint the audio picture for the work it was commissioned for so isn't as fluent as other albums, but it is still a challenging listen worthy of the time and effort, and above all else when played at a higher than usual volume, sounds amazing. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.ĪWVFTS have produced a glorious set of albums and like anyone some for me are better than others, none are less than worth listening to several times all are worth having. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Continue without accepting’ or ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices or learn more. Third parties use cookies for the purposes of displaying and measuring personalised advertisements, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we will also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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