Daniel Lanois - Goodbye To Language

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“A deeply beautiful record that redefines the word meditative and shimmers with breathtaking passages of unhurried, received music” - allaboutjazz.com

The latest solo release for the producer/guitarist who worked with Bob Dylan and Brian Eno features the pedal steel guitar and Rocco DeLuca on lap steel.

Popmatters says of Daniel Lanois' new album Goodbye to Language, "it represents that childish notion that music can be pretty much whatever you want it to be — a thought that too many professionals easily abandon." The album, out now, powerfully demonstrates what happens when a visionary artist tosses aside preconceived limitations of song and/or language to explore the emotional resonance of pure soundscapes.

Goodbye to Language was constructed from the sounds of the pedal steel guitar, Daniel on the steel and his mate Rocco Deluca on the lap steel with compositional rigour that recalls the 20th century dreamscapes of Ravel and Debussy merged with a sense of sonic futurism.

A profoundly expressive work, Goodbye to Language recalls Lanois' pivotal work with Eno as well as the sounds he used to form iconic albums like Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind, U2's pivotal Achtung Baby, and works by Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris and others, as well his own last album Flesh And Machine.