Golden Loam (double lp)

released November 18, 2022

Three sides of Golden Loam, 140 gram vinyl, black paper sleeves, color labels, all slipped into a wide spine jacket with a protective poly bag.

Laurel Premo’s latest solo work presents original and traditional music voiced on finger-style electric guitar and lap steel. Perhaps by its most honest classification “roots guitar,” the sonic vocabulary of Golden Loam is informed by guitar’s antecedents in American traditions - fiddle and banjo, the rhythms, melody and intonation therein, as well as that music’s relationship to movement. Glowing, droning, tugging, scraping, revolving, Premo bears renewed electric dirt, the golden loam layered by centuries of folk.

- Digital orders can be made through the bandcamp platform. https://laurelpremo.bandcamp.com/album/golden-loam
- CDs also available

Following The Iron Trios (2019), Premo’s sophomore release builds on the dark roots world she arranged, with seeking, untethered delivery and a masterful use of space, on a dynamic wave of warm, gritty sustain. Laurel’s vocals on two pieces ‘Hop High’ and ‘I Am A Pilgrim’ are traditional calls beaconing the guitar’s response, and fold in timbrely like additional instrumental lines sustaining the drone.

Golden Loam was self produced and recorded during the pandemic lockdown of summer/fall 2020. The majority of the record is solo performance, but two featured collaborators are woven in to this embodied rhythmic collection. Percussive dancer Nic Gareiss (Michigan) appears on tracks 5 & 9, and bones player Eric Breton (Quebec) on track 3. Mixed by Joe DeJarnette at Studio 808. Mastered by Amy Dragon at Telegraph Audio.