Hear Dramatic Records' mind-boggling compilation of "devotional music for invisible cities"

And now for something completely different.

The latest release from the proudly eccentric Dramatic Records is as confounding a project as they’ve ever put forward, and that’s saying something when their catalogue includes music from a fictional 1970s superclub (The Endless House) and a Carl Sagan-obsessed swimming teacher-slash-preacher (Sebastian Palomar).

Devotional Music for Invisible Cities is an anonymous collection of music “for spaces and places unknown” put together by Dramatic over the last two years. The artists were instructed to create music inspired by 13 ‘invisible cities’ (inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel) and an accompanying ‘belief statement’ that would become a track title: ‘Their God Is Ugly’, ‘The Devoted Destroy All Machinery’, ‘Their City Tessellates Infinitely’, that sort of thing.

“Their palette, all deranged chorales and Globalisch instrumentation, calls to mind everything from Michael Nyman to Demdike Stare, Ghostbox to Angelo Badalamenti,” says label boss Jack Fryer of the record’s resulting “delirious ethnography”. “We try to do more than just release some tunes. Our mission remains an effort to weave electronics with some degree of storytelling and Phantasy.”

Stream the entire album below, and grab it on limited edition cassette or CD when it comes out on December 12. Dramatic are also compiling material for a second volume Devotional Music, so you can dream up your own devotional song alongside a corresponding Invisible City and send it to info@dramaticrecords.com.

While you’re at it, check out the bizarro FACT mix Dramatic cooked up for us back in 2011, inspired by the myth of The Endless House.


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