City of Gold was John Harford's first full length album: an
indulgence in dark ambient and sound art in the tradition
of Lustmord, Skincage, SPK, Cold Meat Industries, Nurse WIth
Wound. Heavily based upon experiences in and around Baltimore
City, EVP (then not a household word) experiments, and nearly
entirely sampled and regurgitated environmental and found
sound recording. It is raw, ineptly composed, grimy and perhaps
the most honest album to date. It floated around under the
name "Eccentre" for a while. The title references
may become obvious with a little "connect the symbols".
A wordless and pictureless narrative underworld journey. Best
listened to in near complete darkness under headphones.
Also included on
this page are some other early experiments from the 1999-2003
period:
Unsound: Implosion
Project - recorded and performed live with Mike Johnson (Feverspore):
it is all based upon a 2 minute and 40 second sample of a
building implosion in downtown Baltimore.
Dream Projectors
- a noisy composition in the tradition of Coil's Queens, Constant
Shallowness, etc... Most of what you hear is recordings of
'earth hums' and frequencies reportedly used in mind control
experiments.
Kathartes and John
Harford's Links
Kathartes
Myspace - Periodically Checked
Terra
Serpentis - John's Medieval Music
John
Harford - Photo and Visual Arts
Myrkwood
- Writing by John
All of these files
are CD quality MP3. The individual tracks are between 3 and
7 MB each. The full archive is about 50 MB.
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Tracks:
City of Gold
1. Phantoms
2. Road Side Burial
3. Beyond
4. The Shade Replied
5. Gray Landmarks
6. The Gate to Potniae
7. Necropolis
8. Beneath
9. Embruon
Complete
Archive
City
of Gold Tracks 1-9 Including Album Art
Implosion Project - 15.8
MB
Dream
Projectors - 9.96 MB
All
material © John R. Harford/Kathartes 2010 |