A R Wilson - Old GoldFormat : LP Label : Impatience Catalog # : IMPTNC01 Genre : Ambient Folk 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

before dampened footsteps and bird calls from field recordings echo — a scene is set

lives on a boat equipped with an onboard studio

and includes previously unreleased alternate mixes

Released in conjunction with Utopia records London

hailing from Leytonstone in East London by his father a fashion designer and his Spanish mother a music writer

organic percussion and twinkling piano melodies

it is often misunderstood” and

Michael Prophet

The album closer ‘Sightless Eyes (N16)’ brings everything full circle — after an intro of 5 AM NE London birds singing

represents the entrance where the Middle Eastern first come to Indonesia through trading in Malacca Strait / Channel many centuries ago

“a lot of things that I featured in the remix weren’t as audible in the original

Oh and always a melodica line found somewhere amongst it