Launching a rally against the unending worldly chaos of the New Year, Tashi Dorji lets out a new song today: "burn the throne." For the second single off Tashi's forthcoming album, 'low clouds hang, this land is on fire', he delivers his electric guitar improvisation through absolute darkness: wistful halos of reverb, slowly taking focus as a light at the end of the tunnel. Tashi maintains a languid air throughout, even during the restive activity of the final section — measured, disciplined and mournful — as any attempt on the throne must be. Barbed with intention, it is a declaration of war rooted unshakably in peace. The flickering monochrome signals in the music video are the work of Philippe Léonard, the film projectionist for Godspeed You! Black Emperor and a longtime friend of Tashi. Philippe subtitles the video as: "River flow, water into water, not a loop but a continuum."
'low clouds hang, this land is on fire' is Tashi Dorji's third album on Drag City. After two full-lengths firing off tumultuous acoustic improvisations —Stateless and we will be wherever the fires are lit — his playing this time wades into a pool of electric guitar ambience. This newfound silence was sought out by Tashi with intention, absorbing hard truths into each punk anthem; at times, improvising with the deliberate exposition of themes in raga's alap form. Once he finished, he went back and listened to the composition of each piece. Then the words came easily. They’re the titles of these songs, they provide the narrative — or a prism, to allow us to gaze unblinking upon the awesome rot of empire. Each song awakens a power within us all: to reconstitute spirit, to disseminate across all who fight from the outside.
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