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The Power of Water

by Tashi Dorji/Ian MaColm/Frank Meadows

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Night Brings Advice 05:34
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The Only Game in Town 02:01
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Horizon Point - A Pinprick 04:56
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Terms of Estrangement 04:08
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Half Time Dots 05:52

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The Power of Water" is the document of a brief conference between Tashi Dorji, Ian McColm and Frank Meadows. After years of bill-sharing, tape-swapping and discussion over path-crossing in the southeastern DIY circuit of the mid 2010s, a shared vision of improvised music and a drive to document developed, eventually translating into a crisp afternoon session in the early spring of 2017. The trio convened at Hi-Z Lo-Z, the Asheville home studio environment of Patrick Kukucka, a longtime collaborator of Dorji and Meadows. Roughly two hours of raw tape were captured, eventually providing the excerpts presented here. The shared headspace was brisk, airy, urgent, and light on its feet. A desire for a material-forward, manual approach to acoustic sound lay behind the session and an attempt was made to harness the delicate magnification, unhinged texture and wild momentum in the air. Although a brief snapshot, "The Power of Water" captures a kinetic burst of long-considered plans energetically, but patiently, executed at high velocity.
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releases April 16, 2021

Tashi Dorji - Guitar
Ian McColm - Percussion
Frank Meadows - Double Bass

Recorded April 2017 at Hi Z Lo Z Studios in Asheville, NC
Engineered and mixed by Patrick Kukucka
Mastered by Frank Meadows
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Tashi Dorji Asheville, North Carolina

Tashi Dorji is a Bhutanese guitarist and improvisational musician known for his avant-garde and experimental (read: deeply gnarly, finely arty) approach to music. Tashi’s idiosyncratic take on the instrument, one defined by movement and profound openness to technique, adds up to a post-colonial disembowlment of guitar traditions. ... more

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