low clouds hang, this land is on fire: Vinyl LP

For his third new album release for Drag City, Tashi Dorji turns to the electric guitar. After the furious acoustic improvisations that drove the previous two - Stateless and we will be wherever the fires are lit - it’s easy to imagine an album of his electric guitar improvisations as an encompassingly incendiary essay. Especially when titled low clouds hang, this land is on fire. After all, this is a man capable of tearing up the place with the tactile musical violence of Bill Orcutt and Derek Bailey. And yet, this knowledge serves to set up a greater shock: the album’s disarmingly gentle musical drift.