Don't Let Go (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Ashley, Jack, and God

Songs from a Toxic Apartment

(intro)

God Rising

Earth City 1: The Longing

Our Love Is Beautiful

My Whole Family is Dead

End Credit Roll

The Song of Sway Lake (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Sway Lake (Lost Record Version) [feat. John Grant]

Sway Lake (Big Band Version) [feat. The Staves]

Starlight Reveries

Nikolai’s Dream

SAFE PLACE

I WILL GIVE YOU EVERY DROP OF ME

NOTHING WILL STOP US

JUST DON'T HARM ME

MY HEART

LET'S NOT RUSH TIME

LET'S GET OUT OF HERE

GIVE ME YOUR BREAST

I LEND YOU MY HOME

Cover medley of EMPIRE OF THE SUN and TOM PETTY

Walking On A Dream / Learning To Fly

Sway Lake (Big Band Version) (feat. The Staves)

Sway Lake (Lost Record Version) (feat. John Grant)

Pretty Girls

“Our Love is Beautiful” is a preview of the upcoming double album Earth City, an epic in a time when that’s not the norm, about human isolation and longing in the modern world. Longing for self-love, for human connection, and ultimately for union with the natural world. There’s a soul wound for so many people in our civilization which is usually expressed as a longing for romance. And that’s part of Earth City and “Our Love is Beautiful”. And, the song and the coming album are really about the much larger sense of love and longing, after all our colorful individual searches, for unity, inside and outside ourselves.

When I used to play really aggressive music, none of which I released, I wrote songs that were musically complicated but simple in their meaning: rage or self-hatred. I was in a lot of psychic pain for a long time, but paths out started whispering to me in musical dreams. “Our Love is Beautiful” is one of those songs that shows up simple, maybe like a flower is simple. For some people it’s a romantic love song, for some it’s a lullaby, for others it’s an anthem of pride. My old demos were uploaded and set to all kinds of visuals by people I don’t know. It’s been covered by nerdy kids in bedrooms around the world. I’ve been asked for the guitar fingerings by grooms and brides so they can sing it to their beloveds on their wedding nights. I think it’s resonated, even before I ever released it, because it’s a song for that tenderness just under the hard surface so many of us carry around.

My life has been a winding path, but maybe Earth City is showing up at the right time in 2020. It seems during this pandemic the entire world has taken a pause. Like everyone was running and pushing and struggling and gobbling up experiences and food and cultures and people, in a kind of blind frenzy, and now the noise has quieted down just a little. I hope the world takes this opportunity to shift towards love in the biggest sense of the word, and towards awareness of the majesty of our planet, and the incredible opportunity we have in being alive.

Earth City

In New York

Ethan Gold, underground LA songmaker and music artist, is finalizing mixes for his upcoming double-album EARTH CITY, a record about the modern world — longing for human connection, for love and thrill in the city, for connection to nature. Several advance singles have been released in recent months including “Our Love is Beautiful” which arrived with a video of hundreds of people around the world delivering Ethan’s song for human unity in this time of fear and separation.

Gold’s much-lauded debut Songs from a Toxic Apartment (“Best New Music” – Sunday Times London) was a deeply personal work confronting childhood trauma and the sexual ambiguity of adulthood. After a head injury sidelined him for some years, he returned with the naive electronic album Expanses (Teenage Synthstrumentals)  (“Wildly diverting” – Electronic Sound), a mostly 80s live covers record Live Undead Bedroom Closet Covers (“Unhinged but weirdly compelling” – Uncut), and several film scores including the jazz-inflected The Song of Sway Lake, featuring artists John Grant and The Staves singing Ethan’s songs, and the glitchy Blumhouse thriller Don’t Let Go.

Today Gold lives and dreams songs, now writing over half his music while asleep. Through a long recovery, he now credits the temporary breaking of his cognitive ability with a clarified mission to bring caring about the world back into the world. Or, as he says with irony, “Make sensitivity cool again.”

EthanGold

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