Adam Wiltzie (Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie) is an American composer and guitarist, born on 17 September 1969 in New York and based in Brussels, Belgium. While living in Austin, Texas, he co-founded the ambient drone duo Stars of the Lid with Brian McBride; their albums The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001) and And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007) are regarded as landmarks of ambient music. With the pianist and composer Dustin O'Halloran he formed A Winged Victory for the Sullen, and he has also recorded as The Dead Texan, Aix Em Klemm and Sleepingdog. Under his own name he released Travels in Constants Vol. 24 (2015), How to Disappear Inside a Thirty Piece Orchestra (2021) and Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal (2024). He has written film scores including The Yellow Birds, Iris and American Woman, and contributed to the scores of The Theory of Everything, Arrival and Lion. In 2026 Deutsche Grammophon released Friendship Survival Guide, a collaborative album with Jóhann Jóhannsson drawn from sessions recorded between 2013 and 2017 and completed after Jóhannsson's death in 2018. Source: Rondo DB

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Friendship Survival Guide

2026-09-18

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)