1 Pt I (04:15)
2 Pt II (15:08)
jolis drones de guitare mélancoliques....
This little gem of a release sidled out on limited 3" cdr a couple of months ago and of course sold out in an afternoon, I guess when you press up copies in increments of a handful you can't expect to please everyone, but we're very happy to be able to offer 'Harrisburg' now as an UN-limited digital release for you, the consumer. Dag Rosenqvist has been a busy man of late and with cdr EPs popping up all over the place and a fresh new album (the gorgeous 'A Darkness') it seems the fans are the winners. This twenty minute EP is split into two 'parts' and explores Rosenqvists fascination with melancholic guitar drone, now this might not sound particularly interesting given the sheer amount of people doing this at the moment but the more discerning among you will already be aware of the man's command of the humble drone. Hidden in tides of tape noise, hiss and environmental recordings distant cascades of harmony float through your consciousness like ghosts through a moonlit forest, teasing you with their incredible half-seen beauty. I honestly don't know how he does it, but Rosenqvist composes music using just a guitar that manages to be as beautiful and as simultaneously moving as Arvo Part and yet we never get coaxed into sugared sentimentalism. There are still shards of the post-rock genre in there somewhere, but what's great about this EP is that Rosenqvist has clearly moved on from this, defining his own sound rather than re-treading the messy footsteps of others. Neither rock, experimental nor electronic but a meeting of so many fractured subgenres, 'Harrisburg' is the perfect example of why we're all frothing at the mouths about Jasper TX right now...
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