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Harlan Williams The Glass Desert
Total time: 40:28 Location of artist: NC, USA
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The compositions on The Glass Desert are instrumental and range in moods from
ambient and celestial to darkened and tragic, always with a layering of
harmonies and an intricate structure. The writings are usually in minor key and
can sometimes end up gothic sounding. The style is very unlike traditional
classical guitar music, using multiple instrument parts, elaborate arrangements,
and unusual timings.
The front cover artwork is one of Harlan's original paintings. These detailed
works have been on display in galleries in North Carolina and Louisiana. The
subjects are all structural or things that don't actually exist, sometimes
taking as long as an entire year to finish.
All of the song titles on this recording are found somewhere in the scope of
Christian history or directly in the Bible itself. For example, "In Nomine
Domini" is Latin for "In the Name of the Lord", "Gregory IX" was the pope who
instituted the inquisition, and "The Limb of the Fiend" is 16th century
reference that's another way of saying "The Arm of Satan".
| m3u audio streams (if the flash player above doesn't work for you): [hifi lofi] Play all tracks as an m3u audio stream (or xspf, ogg, mp3 file) [hifi lofi] 01-Beneath the Iron Heel of Pagan Rome (2:12) [hifi lofi] 02-The Reign of Diocletian (3:41) [hifi lofi] 03-The Limb of the Fiend (2:45) [hifi lofi] 04-In Nomine Domini (4:16) [hifi lofi] 05-Gregory IX (3:39) [hifi lofi] 06-The War in Heaven (3:51) [hifi lofi] 07-The Foaming Blood of the Grape (3:17) [hifi lofi] 08-The Darkened Hearts of Foolish Men (3:29) [hifi lofi] 09-Laodicea (2:51) [hifi lofi] 10-The Valley of Hamon Gog (4:44) [hifi lofi] 11-The Donation of Constantine (2:16) [hifi lofi] 12-The Seventieth Seven (3:27) |
