Olson, Van Cleef, Williams Post “Good as Gold” Video; As Gold Turned to Black Powder out This Week
Posted in Bootleg Theater on June 10th, 2020 by JJ Koczan
As one might expect from the commas between the names, Olson, Van Cleef, Williams is a three-way collaboration. Its component members are T.G. Olson, also of Across Tundras, Ivonne Van Cleef and Caleb R.K. Williams, and the long-distance project — it would seem to be split between France and Plattsmouth, Nebraska — will release its debut album, As Gold Turned to Black Powder, this Saturday, June 13. To herald the arrival, a video for “Good as Gold” from the 43-minute 12-tracker has been put together featuring atmospheric, mostly-void-of-humans footage; though I’d swear I see Lee Van Cleef making an appearance early on, which would make sense. Either way, the emptiness suits the track itself, which arrives early on the record and helps set a minimalist Americana tone and a kind of outsider-meditative spirit to which the record lives up.
I don’t know the nature of the project, whether it’s a one-off or if it’ll be an ongoing collaboration or what, but the players’ styles certainly seem suited to each other from what I’ve been able to discern in listening so far. The melancholia that unfolds deceptively quick on “Good as Gold” should give you some idea of where they’re coming from, but the album of course doesn’t all play out along the same lines. I’m sure it’ll be streaming this weekend, so if you get the chance to dig in, you should do so.
In the meantime, the video and the limited amount of info I have are below.
Enjoy:
Olson, Van Cleef, Williams, “Good as Gold” official video
“Good As Gold” by Olson, Van Cleef, Williams
“As Gold Turned To Black Powder” available on june 13
https://eaglestone.bandcamp.com/
Music composed, improvised and recorded by T.G. Olson, Ivonne Van Cleef and Caleb R.K. Williams.
(Drums by Julián Pinto)
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