Low Clouds Hang, This Land Is on Fire

by Tashi Dorji

Low Clouds Hang, This Land Is on Fire cover art

On 'low clouds hang, this land is on fire', Tashi Dorji shifts from the acoustic immediacy of his prior work to a more meditative and melancholy electric guitar framework. The album explores themes of political exhaustion through a sound that is often gentle and spacious, using reverb and the natural resonance of the recording space to create a delicate, ambient sound world punctuated by moments of dissonance and industrial-tinged texture. This deliberate turn towards a quieter, more contemplative form of free improvisation contrasts with his previous albums, offering a sound that is both a reflection of and a search for silence in turbulent times.

Genres

  • Ambient Americana

Tracklist

  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
  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