The Golden Hour, by Empty House

The Golden Hour

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The Golden Hour
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1.	Ramen Roll 04:28	buy track
2.	The Golden Hour 03:56	buy track
3.	Magnetic World 04:38	buy track
4.	Invisible JuJu 05:36	buy track
5.	Jerusalem Road 03:08	buy track
6.	Tamerlane 04:52	buy track
7.	Bones of the Golden Loom 06:52	buy track
8.	Ulro sings the Shadow 05:48	buy track
9.	Night Closure 01:44	buy track

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I thought it was time to pick up the old electric six string again and do some guitar-based tracks. I’d being listening to loads of world music and stuff as well as Michael Rother’s solo output and as always Popol Vuh whose guitarist Daniel Fichelsher has been the biggest influence on my guitaring along with Michael Karoli (CAN), 13th Floor Elevators Stacy Sutherland and Manuel Gottsching. I wanted each track to have its own little universe – The BJM inspired sitar led ‘Ramen Roll’, The mutant Mali rock of ‘Invisible JuJu’, the Pastoral krautrock of ‘Jerusalem Road’ and the Anatolian raga of ‘Tamerlane’ all try to evoke exotic places in my mind, some that I have been to and some imaginary. The album hits a stride on side 2, especially with the Blakean dedications ‘Bones of the Golden Loom’ and ‘Urlo sings the Shadow’. Finally, ‘Night Closure’ finishes the album with just a sparse piano and silence. Kind of reminds me of those Gurdjieff albums on ECM.

The album is a good companion piece to ‘The Rituals of Romance’ that was released on cassette through Yoshiwara Records last year and the nearest to the late period Earthling Society albums for Riot Season.
I’ve dedicated the album to the late, great T.S McPhee, another great guitarist whom I had the pleasure of supporting a few times in the old Earthling Society days. He was a true English Visionary and the Groundhogs where one of the most important bands of the 70’s. Fly high Tony…

The Golden Hour – Written, recorded and produced by Fred Laird Spring, Summer 2023.

Fred Laird – guitars, bass, bouzouki, Turkish saz, organ, piano, harpsichord, pennywhistle, percussion, drum programming, samples, synthesizer, coral sitar, Hulusi, PO133 Street Fighter, electronic tanpura.
Nick Raybould – djembe and shaker on ‘Invisible JuJu’.

Artwork collages by Fred Laird with additional layout by Nick Raybould.

Mastered by Chris Cordwell.

Vinyl Limited to 100 copies worldwide. Copies allocated to this page UK customers only.
For USA customers please visit echodelickrecords.bandcamp.com
Canada - wehereandnow.bandcamp.com
EU - worstbassistrecords.bandcamp.com

Please also note vinyl will ship last week in Feb due to pressing pant delays

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released February 2, 2024

Fred Laird – guitars, bass, bouzouki, Turkish saz, organ, piano, harpsichord, pennywhistle, percussion, drum programming, samples, synthesizer, coral sitar, Hulusi, PO133 Street Fighter, electronic tanpura.
Nick Raybould – djembe and shaker on ‘Invisible JuJu’.

Artwork collages by Fred Laird with additional layout by Nick Raybould.

Mastered by Chris Cordwell.

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Empty House Blackpool, UK

empty house is the solo work of Blackpool based musician Fred Laird. Formed in March 2021, empty house is an ambient project that fuses electronics and found sounds with Asian instruments. The concept of the music is to create a dreamlike or meditative atmosphere for meditation, yoga, martial arts or just sat on the sofa staring at the drifting clouds from your living room window. ... more

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