Album Review: we will be wherever the fires are lit by Tashi Dorji

Search experimental, improvisational guitarist Tashi Dorji‘s vast Bandcamp page, and you’ll discover sinewy-yet-jagged nylon string excursions, electric smoke circles of noise and drone, duos and trios bashing it out, and even a digital album’s worth of yawps, grunts, and other sounds of near-viciousness coaxed from a banjo. Yet none of it, including his last release for Drag City, Stateless, sounds much like what’s on offer on We Will Be Wherever the Fires are Lit, his second release of new music for the long-running Chicago-based imprint. It’s not so much the ingredients – acoustic guitar, often prepared with tape for muting or metal for the whizz of distortion – that have changed, but the focus on relentless repetition, as if the left hand is stuck on the same note or chord while the right can’t stop itself.

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