drcarlsonalbion: gold

"Gold" is the 1st major soundtrack work from Dylan Carlson (EARTH), composed for a foreign language western of the same name. Across the album's 24 tracks (designed to be listened to as one suite), Carlson's lyrical playing dissolves structures into abstraction, stretching out each repetition til you're left with only the sound of buzzing or scraped strings. For the 1st time Carlson's guitar is presented, bare, alone, with only minimal percussion, fore-fronting his evocative, lyrical control of the instrument in a language that transcends tired "cinematic" adjectives & places you directly into the landscape. ltd edition w/ download