Balsams

by Chuck Johnson

Balsams cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2 June 2017
  • Label: VDSQ
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:21
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The American instrumentalist pivots from his usual acoustic American Primitivism toward expansive, pedal steel-driven ambient drone. The tracking relies entirely on the slow, heavily delayed, and reverberated swells of the pedal steel guitar, stripping the instrument of its traditional country music context. The resulting compositions are deeply meditative, creating vast, cinematic landscapes of pure acoustic resonance.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, instrumental, guitars, ambient, minimal, nature

Tracklist

  1. Calamus (5:10)
  2. Riga Black (6:38)
  3. Moonstone (9:04)
  4. Eye on the Sparrow (7:15)
  5. Labradorite Eye (5:19)
  6. Balm of Gilead (7:52)

Credits

  • Mock & Toof - primary artist, edited by
  • Kevin O'Neill - artwork [uncredited]

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