WE WILL BE WHEREVER THE FIRES ARE LIT

Four years separate the release of Stateless and we will be wherever the fires are lit.
In the interim, Tashi Dorji has seldom stood still, playing and touring almost
constantly, continuing to record both as a solo and in collaboration with artists
including Susie Ibarra, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Bill Orcutt, Michael Zerang,
Elliott Sharp, Audrey Chen, Sally Gates, Marshall Trammell, Efrim Manuel
Menuck, Aaron Turner, Dave Rempis and Joe McPhee.
For Tashi, the playing of this music is always political even in its most
abstract iterations. In and of itself, music can't solve political problems-but
since no moment of life is without its political context, "strumming in opposition to the towers" is therefore a universal state, a freedom of expression made
while doing all the other things involved with playing, maintaining a sense of
lineage and documenting forward movement.
we will be wherever the fires are lit was recorded over a period of a month
on a Zoom recorder in a cabin behind Tashi's home. His music, as ever, is all
improvised, using different guitar preparations-tape for muting, and metal
for buzz. Different tunings and techniques; inspirations from all over. Tashi's
sound is his own, but we can't help but feel the sound of many nations, in all
hemispheres, storming through these acoustic expressions. Who else would it
be for, if not for everyone'