Old Gold, by A.R. Wilson

Old Gold

by A.R. Wilson

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Luke Thinnes Healing sounds to accompany a prosperous week of pickaxe swinging and pan sifting

tastingnotes Like the soundtrack to a Western generated from my subconscious.

Highly recommend picking this one up!
Favorite track: Saltpetre.

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1.	Cinnamon Nugget 00:42	buy track
2.	Raisins 02:44	buy track
3.	Twinkle 02:36	buy track
4.	A Long Day In The Saddle 02:39	buy track
5.	Sly Grog 02:00	buy track
6.	Rum Nobbler 03:12	buy track
7.	Warm or Chilly 02:42	buy track
8.	Moonlight Flat 05:20	buy track
9.	Sparkler 03:03	buy track
10.	Digs Alone 01:39	buy track
11.	Saltpetre 01:04	buy track
12.	Metal, Want, Die 02:33	buy track
13.	Amber 02:55	buy track

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Melbourne auteur Andrew Wilson (Andras, A.R.T. Wilson, Wilson Tanner) soils the ‘Australian songbook’ with a collection of fragile, private and deranged songs of parrots, pancakes and gelignite amidst the Victorian Gold Rush of 1850s.

Old Gold is filled with fakes and fools, rumbling stomachs and acousmatic terrors - a lonely, self-pitying search evoked by faintly medieval folk music that sounds almost period-perfect but somehow, oddly, wonderfully spoiled.

Gut string guitars, water-logged mandolins, bar room banjos and no-fidelity piano all sound perfectly organic - except they’re not. No acoustic instruments were handled in the making of the record, including environmental sounds which were generated during a residency at Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio. The reproduction of familiar sounds via inorganic means situates the record in a moonlit, melancholy hole of its own.

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released January 28, 2022

Old Gold was written, played and recorded by Andrew Wilson, and mastered by Mikey Young. Artwork is by Luca Schenardi.

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Andras Melbourne, Australia

australian dj and musician. NTS resident.

aka Wilson Tanner, Art Wilson, Andras & Oscar et al.

bookings (AU) james@watartists.com (EU) patrick@publicpossession.com

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