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The Glass Desert" by Harlan Williams Beautiful dark and airy guitar compositions Total time: 40:28 - release date: 1/30/2010 The compositions on The Glass Desert are instrumental and range in moods from ambient and celestial to darkened and tragic, always with a layering of harmonies and an intricate structure. The writings are usually in minor key and can sometimes end up gothic sounding. The style is very unlike traditional classical guitar music, using multiple instrument parts, elaborate arrangements, and unusual timings. The front cover artwork is one of Harlan's original paintings. These detailed works have been on display in galleries in North Carolina and Louisiana. The subjects are all structural or things that don't actually exist, sometimes taking as long as an entire year to finish. All of the song titles on this recording are found somewhere in the scope of
Christian history or directly in the Bible itself. For example, "In Nomine
Domini" is Latin for "In the Name of the Lord", "Gregory IX" was the pope who
instituted the inquisition, and "The Limb of the Fiend" is 16th century
reference that's another way of saying "The Arm of Satan".
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