MP3: The Goner - A song
With the release of "Haven", The Goner has completed his H-series triptych and secured himself a place in my year-end top 10 list. This final chapter might be the best of the bunch too, that is, if I was to consider them individually. It's got the gentle folksiness of "Halartraller" as evidenced by opening track "A song" (featured today), but it's also balanced by more raga instrumentals and extensive psychedelic vamping that defined "Hind Hand". Again, this is cult music; willfully obscure and intentionally obtuse. Music like this isn't created to gain popularity, make friends, to sell records; this is art. And as we pass through these Days of Awe I can think of no finer soundtrack.
May all loose threads be sewn / To guard from darksome night
May every grieving soul be thrown / Where God himself gives light
The Goner - A song