Chad Golda – The Mysterious Nine (2018)

Writing

Bandcamp

• Indie folk 
• Alt-folk 
• Americana 
• DIY 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Folk indie 
• Lo-fi 
• Psych-folk

Comment: Chad Golda is a right songwriter from the USA who started in such borderline folk and indie groups as ***, ringostar, and starstarstar in the second half of the 00s. Later on, he launched his solo projects, and his first albums (CHAD GOLDA`S ALBUM (2009), and Dance Session (2010) were knee-deep yet successful experiments with electronic music, psychedelia, post-industrial sounds and idiosyncratic electronic/synth-pop and dance grooves. All these groups`s and his solo albums had been released on Dean Birkett-led Rack And Ruin Records which was being an important platform for DIY and lo-fi music then (by remembering all of that time it makes me smile blissfully). After Dean Birkett decided to finish the deed with the label with a discography of almost 200 items in 2011 Chad Golda started his own Writing Records and in principle decided to develop in the vein of indie folk music. Indeed, to continue developing the path being already experienced and explored by him. Mysterious Nine is a fine Americana album which does mean to explore folk-related music through psychedelic reveries, uncanny dreams, and some noisy and sublime electronic experiments. From rusty Appalachian strings and synthesised effects and beats to piano chord driven rushes and noise pop outbursts with intention to create catchy melodies and overcoming harmonies. It is like a step into the realm of indie folk and on the other side resembling of the coming of a subsequent aroused New Weird wave what did happen in the beginning of the 00s.

Chad Golda – 8IGHT (2013)

Writing

/Free folk, Freak folk, Musique concrete, DIY, Weird folk, Singer-songwriter, Indie folk, Americana, New Weird America, Folk indie, Conceptual/

Comment: Chad Golda is a singer-songwriter from Fort Collins, USA whose was erstwhile being known as a member of such Michigan-based trio as Ringo Star/starstarstar, the combo who had issued some splendid albums under Rack & Ruin Records. Upon it he embarked on solo project which resulted in some poignant experimental releases made up of free folk, psychedelic rock, noise and electronics. However, this case is up there to provide eight brand new ones which are subjected to eight different modes/ recording premises ranging from the acoustic tape, digital four track, acoustic digital, and digital drum setup to electric digital drums, digital field recordings, and electric loop setup. More profoundly, at times the listener can enjoy bare acoustic guitar strumming at times the strings are accompanied with harmonium-drenched drones and more distinctly designed rhythmic patterns (may he be exploiting the drum machine if necessary at a time?) and some concrete sounds and reverberant singing layers. If to compare it to his first solo issues than aesthetically he is calmed down. It does mean the whole includes 64 tracks in total. Indeed, it is tremendous but worth to unzip it.           

Chad Golda - House Sounds (2013)

Writing

• Lo-fi
• Alt-folk
• New Weird America
• Singer-songwriter
• Free folk
• Americana
• Drone folk
• Anti-folk

Outstanding tracks: 

Today The Atlantic Shore 

It 

Irreplaceable
Pieces

The Bird+The Black Nite

  

Chad Golda - Abroad (2011)

Writing

9.4

/Improvised music, Modern classical, Musique concrete, Post-psychedelic electronica, Free folk, Freak folk, Avant-folk, Weird folk, New Weird America/ 

Comment: Chad Golda was a part of free/indie folk collective starstarstar (previously known as ringostar, and ***) related to an excellent DIY label, Rack & Ruin Records (headed up by Dean Birkett). Actually the trio`s albums Electric Goose and The Nylon Moose, and Soul Tide were excellent exemplars. However, later on he started off to proceed his own solo career to depict formidable noises, quirky folk visions, and bent psychedelia. The instrumental album Abroad comprises a handful of pieces filled in with restrained piano chords which are accentuated with the sublime noises and glowering drones of an organ and lofty strums of a guitar and fingerpicked chords of a banjo in the background. Mostly Golda`s approach rotates around improvised folk compositions, though, the first half of the second track chimes like a modern classical opus at its core (which later will be stretched out to a section of psychedelic folk). In the third compositions there are up the sounds of a tiny bit metallic (as if prepared) strings wrapped up in the tight ambiance of hazy concrete sounds. All in all, the result is great and thought for those who prefer the open context for recording and listening to achieve the more natural feeling and perception. Superb by any means.