Gloria [Cassette]

Dustin Wong - Gloria [Cassette]

LA-based composer/producer/guitarist Dustin Wong returns to Hausu Mountain with Gloria his third album on the label since 2018. Wong has established a multifaceted career over the last two decades that encompasses his solo work centered around guitar performance and live looping roles as a guitarist in Baltimore-based bands Ponytail and Ecstatic Sunshine and a wide catalog of collaborations with artists including Takako Minekawa Good Willsmith and Patrick Shiroishi. In composing his solo music Wong has always transmuted his own life experiences into the thematic source material for emotionally resonant works rippling with fine-grain details and intricate looping architectures. With Gloria the composer channels specific memories and pieces of his family history into a deeply personal narrative arc focused on his grandmother Gloria Violet Lee Wong who passed away in January 2024 just shy of her 96th birthday. Using a road trip they took together down the west coast of America in 2023 as the direct inspiration for the individual scenes and flashes of imagery that form the album's continuously unfolding structure Wong presents Gloria as a memorial to her storied life and a celebration of the warmth and kindness that characterized their close relationship. A moment-to-moment travelogue that zooms out in its full scope to evoke a multi-generational memoir that spans decades and continents Gloria gives Wong space to open his heart and uncover his roots - all while experimenting with new techniques in live performance and sound design that lead his music into territories that he has never before explored. A1. Morning Roses A2. Undulating Coast A3. Memories of Cordelia A4. Glass Beach A5. Seeing Aline for the Last Time B1. Gloria & Backman on the Phone B2. Malcolm Carey Darrel Andrea Janice B3. Swimmers with the Pink Urn B4. Bear Hotel Grants Pass B5. Archangel Michael and the Pacific B6. Waves of MacKerricher B7. Ascension B8. Angels We Have Heard on High B9. Angels We Have Heard on High (Second Propulsion]