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Artist | Daniel Lanois & Rocco Deluca
Title | Goodbye To Language
Genre | Ambient Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 36:42
Label | Anti- Store | 2016
Catalog | 87471-2 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 221 kbps Size | 61.39 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Low Sudden 2:38
02. Time On 5:07
03. Falling Stanley 2:21
04. Deconstruction 3:50
05. Satie 4:10
06. Three Hills 2:52
07. Heavy Sun 2:35
08. The Cave 1:36
09. East Side 1:53
10. Later That Night 4:52
11. Suspended 1:27
12. Blue Diamond 3:21
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One of the most distinctive and celebrated producers of his time, Daniel
Lanois was also a gifted composer and solo artist; whether performing his
own material or helming records for the likes of U2, Bob Dylan, and Peter
Gabriel, the hallmarks of his singular aesthetic remained the same. Noted
for his unparalleled atmospheric sensibilities, Lanois pursued emotional
honesty over technical perfection, relying on vintage equipment and
unorthodox studio methods to achieve a signature sound both viscerally
powerful and intricately beautiful.
On 2016's "Goodbye To Language", veteran producer Daniel Lanois and
frequent collaborator Rocco DeLuca team up for an album of shifting
experimental soundscapes created with lapsteel guitars. The album is far
closer to Lanois' pioneering ambient works with Brian Eno, Harold Budd, and
Michael Brook from the 1980s than his subsequent, more rootsy
singer/songwriter albums. As the album's title suggests, there are no
lyrics here, and the feelings evoked by this music can't accurately be
expressed by words anyway. As simple as the idea of an ambient steel guitar
album sounds, there's a lot going on here, and it never feels like mere
background music. The guitar playing itself tends to be gentle, but it's
filtered through a wide array of effects and subtle manipulations,
resulting in a surreal hallucination of Americana.
The album brings to mind any number of recordings featuring B.J. Cole, as
well as Evil Graham Lee's steel guitar playing on the KLF's Chill Out, and
while it evokes a spiritual journey similar to that iconic album, it feels
far more fragmented and abstract. There are numerous moments where the
guitars rapidly cut out, cluster, or change timbre as if they've been
edited musique concrΦte-style. It's very disjointed, and there's no way to
mistake the sudden, jarring shifts, but somehow it still manages to flow
smoothly, even (for the most part) peacefully. Only one piece on this album
('Deconstruction') was recorded by Lanois solo, and it's easily the
darkest, eeriest cut, with strange rifts bubbling under the desolate
melodies and waves of abrasive distortion rivaling Fennesz or Tim Hecker.
"Goodbye To Language" is a powerful, intoxicating album and one of Lanois'
best works in at least a decade.
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