a r t i s t : John Davis
t i t l e : The Gold Hooped Nature
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Root Strata
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : May/2008
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 41,10 MB
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'The Gold Hooped Nature' is the debut long player by
California dreamer John Davis. Picking up where his 3" CD-R
'At Home And Afeild' left off, this disc is a scenic set of
audio drift that easily zigzags dense passages of analog
crunch as well as blank vistas of crystalline tones via
guitars, found sounds, contact microphones, tape speed
oscillations, field recordings and a small battery of effects.
John's study as a Filmmaker & Photographer definitely plays
some roll here, with any number of landscapes (real or
imagined, inner or outer) being brought to mind. Way less head
than heart though, with plenty of these tracks dipped in a
romantic glaze that betrays any tendency to over conceptualize
drone / ambient / whatever music. It's more wide-eyed sunset,
lost west coast stargazing than that. And I suspect the
endless Midwest horizons of John's youth are in there as well.
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01-before and since [02:53]
02-hudibras [05:42]
03-queen mab's chariot [07:11]
04-moral frost [02:11]
05-difficulty climbing [05:49]
06-half consumed [01:29]
07-blood rust [05:21]
08-the forlorn bookworm [01:09]
09-naumkeag [03:37]
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35:22 min