Dylan Carlson, the founding member of pioneering drone/rock band, Earth, has announced details of his new solo album.
The album will be self-released under his performing name Drcarlsonalbion, with the full title ‘Falling With a Thousand Stars and Other Wonders From the House of Albion’. Carlson offered the follow statement about the new project:
“The concept behind this album ‘Falling with a Thousand Stars and Other Wonders From The House of Albion’, was my interpretations of Scotch-English folk ballads about human/supernatural interaction, specifically those ‘spiritual creatures’ known as ‘fayres/fairies/etc.’ Not the tiny winged ones of Victorian nursery stories and decor, but the beings of folklore and the historical records (mostly trial dittays from witch trials). The genesis was my own personal encounters that occurred in 2010-11 and that have occurred occasionally since that time. The album is solo guitar played by myself. It was originally going to have environmental recordings from sights of human/fayre encounters, but unfortunately those recordings were unusable. The album was recorded at crackle’n’pop studios in Seattle with Johnny Sangster as engineer. It is part of a project that was funded initially by Kickstarter, and self funding on my part. There is also a short film, dir. Clyde Petersen, released with the cd, and a book (tba).”
Song premieres are set to follow shortly, but it will be released on June 25th, and you can see the artwork and track listing below.
01 ‘Reynard The Fox’
02 ‘She Moved Thro’ The Faire’
03 ‘Alisson Gross’
04 ‘Rose In The Heather’
05 ‘Tamlane’
06 ‘King Orfeo’
07 ‘The Elfin Knight’