Invisible Cities

Devotional Music For Invisible Cities

An anonymous collection of imagined Devotional Musics commissioned by Dramatic over the last two years. Listeners are briefed just as the original artists apparently were: 13 'Invisible Cities' and an accompanying 'belief statement' of appropriate enigma. 'Their City Tessellates Infinitely,' 'Their God Is Ugly,' 'No Two Chants Can Repeat' (repeat until unimaginably portentous...). These 'songs' play out like the products of a delirious ethnography. Their palette, all deranged chorales and Globalisch instrumentation, calls to mind everything from Michael Nyman to Demdike Stare, Ghostbox to Angelo Badalamenti... perhaps even Broadcast on a particularly awkward day (RIP).

Price

Genre

experimental/sound art

Format

MC - 1 disk

Release date

23-08-2024

Label

Swims

Item-nr

550327

EAN

5050580830028

Availability

Exp. 23-08-2024

TRACKS

Disk 1

1. THEIR GOD IS UGLY
2. THEIR CITY TESSELLATES INFINITELY
3. THE DEVOTED DESTROY ALL MACHINERY
4. THEY CELEBRATE IMAGINARY VICTORIES
5. THE DEVOUT VARY THEIR CHANTS
6. THESE PEOPLE ARE EXHAUSTED
7. THEY PRAY TO HIS DATA
8. THEIR DEVOTION IS CHOREOGRAPHED ACROSS THE LANDS
9. NO TWO CHANTS CAN REPEAT
10. LOVE OF PLEASURE IS ALL
11. ABSTRACT DEVOTIONS EARN MOST LOVE
12. IMMOBILE, THEY FANTASISE ENDLESSLY
13. THE NEWEST MATERIAL IS MOST SACRED