ETHAN GOLD: "Our Love Is Beautiful" is de eerste single/videoclip van zijn nieuwe album "Earth City" dat op 11 juni verschijnt!

De Amerikaanse singersongwriter Ethan Gold debuteerde in 2011 veelbelovend met zijn album “Songs From A Toxic Apartment”. Kort daarna kreeg hij een ‘freak accident’ waardoor hij jarenlang moest vechten en leren om te gaan met een hersenbeschadiging. Door diverse soorten therapie kreeg hij z’n cognitieve vaardigheden beetje bij beetje terug en krabbelde hij ook muzikaal uit dit dal; “although I was somewhat brain-dead, my soul was still very much there”. Helemaal stil zat hij ook weer niet, want er verschenen twee ‘oddities’-albums met covers en ‘synthstrumentals’ en daarnaast schreef hij filmmuziek, voor o.a. “Don’t Let Go”, “Adventures Of Power”, “Mean Creek” en “The Song Of Sway Lake” (waarop artiesten als John Grant en The Staves zijn songs uitvoerden).
“Earth City 1: The Longing” is echter zijn tweede ‘echte’ studio-album en handelt over ‘Our alienation and inter-connectedness. It explores our fascination, isolation and loneliness amidst the connections and disconnections we all experience in the highly complex 21st century world’. Ethan Gold’s muziek bestrijkt een divers en levendig pallet met elementen van ‘alt-rock, Eno-like sonics, romantic ballads, gorgeous indie pop and catchy folk music’ waarbij je muzikale vergelijkingen kunt maken met artiesten als Eels, Wilco, Conor Oberst, Ben Folds, Rivers Cuomo, Badly Drawn Boy en Elliott Smith.

Ethan Gold - Our Love Is Beautiful (Official Music Video) - YouTube
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LA-based artist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, performer, producer and composer Ethan Gold - son of the famous novelist / Beat poet Herbert Gold - is rewarding those patiently and long waiting for his sophomore album. “Earth City 1: The Longing” will be Gold’s first full-album with a ‘real’ new cohesive set of songs since “Songs From A Toxic Apartment” (2011), his debut that earned praise from the likes as Pitchfork (“emotions delivered with an unfiltered, glaring legibility”), the Sunday Times (“essential new music”) and throughout the blogosphere. A reason behind the break between these two releases was a ‘freak’ accident in 2013 - a head injury that left Gold living many years without his cognitive skills and ability to communicate; Gold says “although I was somewhat brain-dead, my soul was still very much there, and I could feel it there the whole time”.
During his recovery time off-stage, full with meditation, mindfulness, just sitting and listening to other play music to rebuild his neural pathways and playing himself all kinds of different instruments to help him rewire his brain, Gold continued composing film scores, for “Don’t Let Go”, “Adventures Of Power”, “Mean Creek” and “The Song Of Sway Lake” (featuring John Grant and The Staves singing Ethan’s songs), and also released two albums of oddities: “Expanses (Teenage Synthstrumentals)” (Vents Magazine: “my nominee for record of the year”) and “Live Undead Bedroom Closet Covers” (Roots & Branches: “if this is what he comes up with to pass the time, that second album should be pretty something”. Prior to his debut, Gold had received accolades for producing and arranging Elvis Perkins’ influential “Ash Wednesday” album (2007).
“Earth City 1: The Longing” contains his first fresh set of songs about our alienation and inter-connectedness. It explores our fascination, isolation and dissatisfaction amidst the connections and disconnections we all experience in the highly complex 21st century world; “the first step of yearning that drives us inward and forward into the most profound experiences of living – doubt, searching and loneliness are motivating principles that bring us towards others, and they bring us towards grace”. The music, similarly, works on multiple layers. Gold weaves together a vibrant soundscape, drawing from the elements of alt rock, Eno-like sonics, romantic ballads, gorgeous indie pop and catchy folk music. His heroes are Syd Barrett and John Lennon, but you could best compare his work with contemporary artists as Eels, Wilco, Conor Oberst, Ben Folds, Rivers Cuomo, Badly Drawn Boy and Elliott Smith. “Earth City 1: The Longing” is an eclectic, unique, strange and awesome journey into Ethan Gold’s subtle, melodramatic and moving music.