A.R. Wilson

Melbourne auteur Andrew Wilson (Andras, A.R.T. Wilson, Wilson Tanner) soils the 'Australian songbook' with a collection of fragile, private and deranged songs of parrots, pancakes and gelignite amidst the Victorian Gold Rush of 1850s.

Old Gold is filled with fakes and fools, rumbling stomachs and acousmatic terrors - a lonely, self-pitying search evoked by faintly medieval folk music that sounds almost period-perfect but somehow, oddly, wonderfully spoiled.

• 01 cinnamon nugget
• 02 raisins
• 03 twinkle
• 04 a long day in the saddle
• 05 sly grog
• 06 rum nobbler
• 07 warm or chilly
• 08 moonlight flat
• 09 sparkler
• 10 digs alone
• 11 saltpetre
• 12 metal want die
• 13 amber