I don’t even know what a front-to-back discography from Across Tundras frontman T.G. Olson would look like at this point, but it would be well populated. The last month has seen a flurry of activity on the prolific singer-songwriter/experimentalist’s Bandcamp page, with offerings from not only his own solo-project in the form of the cynically-titled Owned and Operated By: Twang Trust LLC, but also his outfits Funeral Electrical and Inget Namn, a split with Caleb R.K. Williams, and two releases from Across Tundras — a collection of demos and lost tracks, and a new EP with Shannon Allie-Murphy sharing vocal duties as on 2015’s Home Free EP (discussed here). Frankly, it’s a lot. Probably too much to keep up with. But hey, there’s time.

As regards Owned and Operated By: Twang Trust LLC, it’s more experimental than some of Olson‘s straightforward or folkish fare, but deeply cinematic, and even as the drones and guitar howl on “Carpenter Blues,” there’s something in the landscape created to remind one of mid-aughts Earth, Neil Young‘s Dead Man soundtrack, etc., and given Olson‘s prairie-stretch interpretation, that’s by no means a complaint. Like always, all this stuff is available as a name-your-price download at the Across Tundras Bandcamp, so it’s there for the taking, but even if you sign up for updates as I have five or six times now, don’t expect to be able to keep up with everything that comes out. Just make sure you check back once in a while to see if you can get a handle on what Olson‘s up to. And good luck with that.

Still, hardly an impartial observer, but I dig this one. Weird drones, open spaces, lush and languid and swaying. Yeah, I’m pretty much sold.

Dig it:

T.G. OLSON – Owned and Operated By: Twang Trust LLC

These tracks are fully owned by Twang Trust LLC and will be mined and exploited until exhausted. Thanks for listening.

T.G. Olson – Guitars, Drones, Field Recordings, Sound Manipulations

Tracklisting
1. Running Fight 05:51
2. Laid West 05:26
3. Lies Hidden 04:50
4. Where Were You When 05:39
5. Carpenter Blues 04:48
6. Somewhere Unseen 04:25
7. Shade Tree 04:19
8. When the Bee Balm is in Bloom 04:15
9. Guitar Respite 04:42
10. Hitching Post Part II 04:19

https://www.facebook.com/AcrossTundrasBand/
https://acrosstundras.bandcamp.com/

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