Tashi Dorji · Low clouds hang, this land is on fire

Label: Drag City / Genre: Ambient · Contemporain · Drone

TRACKS FOR LOW CLOUDS HANG, THIS LAND IS ON FIRE
1. low clouds hang, this land is on fire
2. murmur
3. burn the throne
4. we overflow the streets and squares like the sea in a spring tide... and that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust 03:35 5. black flag anthems
6. they fall because they must fall
7. gathering
8. still
9. But go not "back to the sediment" in the slime of the moaning sea, For a better world belongs to you, and a better friend to me
10. storm the heavens
11. a new morning breaks

For his third new album release for Drag City, Tashi Dorji turns to the electric guitar. After the furious acoustic improvisations that drove the previous two—"Stateless" and "we will be wherever the fires are lit" — it’s easy to imagine an album of his electric guitar improvisations as an encompassingly incendiary essay. Especially when titled low clouds hang, this land is on fire. After all, this is a man capable of tearing up the place with the tactile musical violence of Bill Orcutt and Derek Bailey! And yet, this knowledge serves to set up a greater shock: the album’s disarmingly gentle musical drift.

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