Tashi Dorji

About

Tashi Dorji is a Bhutanese-American guitarist who conjures incredible sounds from a prepared acoustic guitar. His spirited improvisations—recorded live without any loops or effects—evoke a composite of influences from Derek Bailey to Mauritanian pulaar to the traditional music of his native Bhutan. "Growing up in Bhutan with little access to music except random bootlegged cassettes and shortwave radio, I listened to anything i could find," Tashi Dorji writes in an email interview.

Top Tracks

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   begin from here

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2. 2

   gathering

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3. 3

   Death Flowers

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4. 4

   Murmur

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5. 5

   low clouds hang, this land is on fire

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6. 6

   we will be wherever the fires are lit

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7. 7

   burn the throne

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8. 8

   we overflow the streets and squares like the sea in a spring tide... and that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust

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