{"product_id":"dorji-tashi-low-clouds-hang-this-land-is-on-fire","title":"Dorji, Tashi - low clouds hang, this land is on fire","description":"After the furious acoustic improvisations\nthat drove the previous two - ‘Stateless’ and ‘we will be\nwherever the fires are lit’ - it’s easy to imagine an album of his\nelectric guitar improvisations as an encompassingly incendiary\nessay. Especially when titled low clouds hang, this land is on\nfire. After all, this is a man capable of tearing up the place with\nthe tactile musical violence of Bill Orcutt and Derek Bailey. And\nyet, this knowledge serves to set up a greater shock: the\nalbum’s disarmingly gentle musical drift.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When asked why he turned the knob down from 11 for this\nalbum, Tashi says simply, “To find the silence.” As ever with\nTashi, this is a political statement. Even the search for silence\ntakes intention and happens for a reason. In this time of such\ninstitutional inhumanity, what is there to feel but exhaustion?\nWhen seeing the faces of the deprived, what is there to feel\nother than hopelessness? In the face of such grief, what words\nare there to say?\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So, Tashi got a couple of amps, moved from the shed where\nhe’d done his first two Drag City titles, set up in a room in the\nfamily home with high ceilings and dialled in the reverb. Once\nthe sound was in the space, reflecting in a manner that he felt\ncongenial with his mood, he taped it. It’s a striking signal,\nmeditative and melancholy, with a delicacy comparable to the\nlineage of Loren Connors or Bill Frisell, the songs at times\ndeveloped with the deliberate exposition of themes in raga’s\nalap form. It’s a sound that lives within silence.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Once he’d laid down the sound, Tashi went back and listened to\nthe composition of each piece. Then the words came easily.\nThey’re the titles of these songs, they provide the narrative - or\na prism, to allow us to gaze unblinking upon the awesome rot of\nempire. These are Tashi’s punk anthems for the year 2026… for\nall the years, really - to be thrown to the people outside the\nwalls, to aid them in their quest to be allowed in.","brand":"Drag City","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50907759411478,"sku":"RMX-60036","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/0055ed2ceefe36d8545df4cdbbb51858.png?v=1767708879","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/dorji-tashi-low-clouds-hang-this-land-is-on-fire","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}