Dustin Wong - Gloria [Cassette]

Format: Cassette
Catalogue No.: CS-HAUSMO-147
Barcode: 634457210011
Release Date: 25 Apr 2025
Genre: Alternative Rock

Cassette, 5-Panel J-Card, Imprinted Clear Black Tape

LA-based composer/producer/guitarist Dustin Wong returns to Hausu Mountain with Gloria, his third album on the label since 2018. Wong has established a multifaceted career over the last two decades that encompasses his solo work centered around guitar performance and live looping, roles as a guitarist in Baltimore-based bands Ponytail and Ecstatic Sunshine, and a wide catalog of collaborations with artists including Takako Minekawa, Good Willsmith, and Patrick Shiroishi. In composing his solo music, Wong has always transmuted his own life experiences into the thematic source material for emotionally resonant works rippling with fine-grain details and intricate looping architectures. With Gloria, the composer channels specific memories and pieces of his family history into a deeply personal narrative arc focused on his grandmother Gloria Violet Lee Wong, who passed away in January 2024, just shy of her 96th birthday. Using a road trip they took together down the west coast of America in 2023 as the direct inspiration for the individual scenes and flashes of imagery that form the album’s continuously unfolding structure, Wong presents Gloria as a memorial to her storied life and a celebration of the warmth and kindness that characterized their close relationship. A moment-to-moment travelogue that zooms out in its full scope to evoke a multi-generational memoir that spans decades and continents, Gloria gives Wong space to open his heart and uncover his roots — all while experimenting with new techniques in live performance and sound design that lead his music into territories that he has never before explored.    

A1. Morning Roses  A2. Undulating Coast  A3. Memories of Cordelia  A4. Glass Beach  A5. Seeing Aline for the Last Time  B1. Gloria & Backman on the Phone  B2. Malcolm, Carey, Darrel, Andrea, Janice  B3. Swimmers with the Pink Urn  B4. Bear Hotel, Grants Pass  B5. Archangel Michael and the Pacific  B6. Waves of MacKerricher  B7. Ascension  B8. Angels We Have Heard on High  B9. Angels We Have Heard on High (Second Propulsion)