Artist: Ajai
Title: Golden Gate Demos
Label / Year: Self
released / 2017
After being immersed in Chance,
For Us I decided to investigate Ajai’s Golden
Gate Demos. This is a collection of paired down acoustic songs that seem to
have been recorded on a lo-fi cassette recorder in one take in the park, reminiscent
of of Michelle Shocked’s Texas Campfire
Tapes. With birds & crows for an audience, Golden Gate Demos feels like an anachronism, an antidote to a music
industry run amok. But of course this is no industry – it is DIY magic. Two
tracks stand out in this collection: Give In and The Fall Of Night. The rest of
the tape meanders from SSW folk to frightening melancholy dirges.
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