Label: Drag City

ギターの即興及び実験演奏を記録した音源出版を2009年頃から開始、ソロ活動を軸にBill Orcuttや恩田 晃、Michael Zerangを含む多くの音楽家との共作も発表、現在まで50タイトル近くの関連作を残しているノースカロライナはアシュビル在住のブータン人ギタリストTashi Dorji。初期音源のLP復刻を手掛けている米老舗Drag Cityがリリースした、2023年録音のソロ音源[We Will Be Wherever The Fires Are Lit]。10曲編成の即興アコギ・ソロで突き進む、極限まで研磨されたミニマムな構造が非常に素晴らしい一枚。





begin form here...

begin from here...our world lives when their world ceases to exist
begin from here...with hopes, between silent skies, while world breathes again and the fever subsides
begin from here...and to those who strike blows
begin from here...while we keep going
begin from here...while we mourn, we also fight

We will be wherever the fires are lit!


We will be wherever the fires are lit, a sort of sequel to Tashi Dorji’s first DC release Stateless, takes the torch and storms forward, with ten improvised acoustic guitar anthems. These musical thoughts are torn from the fabric of Tashi’s life and music. “Strumming in opposition to the towers” (as he puts it) is part of an existence that is always political, even in its most abstract iterations – a truth laid bare in these deep, raw performances.