Invisible Cities
Devotional Music For Invisible Cities (Tape)
LabelSWIMSGenreExperimental
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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).
Release notes
Limited to 50 copies. Originally released by Dramatic Records, in 2016. Reworked and reimagined by SWIMS in 2024.
| A1 | Their God Is Ugly | 3:48 | |
| A2 | Their City Tessellates Infinitely | 3:01 | |
| A3 | The Devoted Destroy All Machinery | 2:01 | |
| A4 | They Celebrate Imaginary Victories | 3:21 | |
| A5 | The Devout Vary Their Chants | 3:06 | |
| A6 | These People Are Exhausted | 4:52 | |
| B1 | They Pray To His Date | 1:39 | |
| B2 | Their Devotion Is Choreographed Across The Lands | 3:41 | |
| B3 | No Two Chants Can Repeat | 4:10 | |
| B4 | Love Of Pleasure Is All | 4:07 | |
| B5 | Abstract Devotions Earn Most Love | 5:00 | |
| B6 | Immobile, They Fantasize Endlessly | 3:05 | |
| B7 | The Newest Material Is Most Sacred | 2:27 |
