“Gold” was recorded in one take by Dustin O’Halloran in his studio in Reykjavik, Iceland. The member of A Winged Victory for the Sullen captured the intimacy of just him at his piano and natural resonances and reverb without removing the physicality of the instrument and its moving parts heard in the recording nor punching in any “mistakes” in the performance or the intonation the can change when you’re using analog instrumentation. The result is the essence of what it would be like to be there and experience the lingering progression, the chords sounding out and trailing off before being replaced by the next set of sounds. O’Halloran’s accents and minimal arrangement lend the pastoral piece a quietly majestic quality that is adjacent to melancholy but is more reflective as though concentrating on and taking in moments of pure tranquility separate from the press of mediated information that clutters up so much of modern life unless you take the time to disconnect and prioritize life and experience as we had it more than a decade ago and can still have it if we indulge our capacity for grace and patience to benefit our inner psychological spaces and not fill it with maximized and monetized content.
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