Infinite Love, the new record from guitarist Dustin Wong, may not be literally infinite, but it sure as hell is ambitiously epic. Clocking in at 1 hour, 20 minutes, Infinite Love is a double LP of visionary instrumental loopage in the Mark McGuire mode. A DVD with deeply psychedelic accompanying visuals comes part and parcel with copies of Infinite Love, and the vinyl version includes an entire EP of additional music called Indigo and Crystal. Taken all together, that makes for quite a hefty artistic statement.

"I was just accumulating a lot of songs, and it got to a point where I had a lot, and I wanted to use all of it," says Wong, who first rose to popularity as part of fitful Baltimore act Ponytail, and with fellow guitarist Matt Papich in the far-out ambient group Ecstatic Sunshine. From Wong's stockpile of recorded material came a record that's daunting, dizzying and delicately structured. Both of Infinite Love's LPs begin with the same warm acoustic loop and end with the same spazzy, reel-spinning freak-out. It's the journey between the two sonic destinations that distinguishes parts one and two of Wong's opus. (In an additional bit of elliptical extravagance, all 30 of Infinite Love's tracks are called simply "Infinite Love." The record demands to be heard in totality.)

"Both versions kind of represent twins, like this brother and sister," Wong explains. "I definitely have some ideas about faith and choice and also the brother and sister being like Carl Jung's anima and animus, or light and shadow, yin and yang - like opposites coming together."

Fans of Wong's other bands know already that he's a total shredder, and on Infinite Love he puts his dexterous fret-cruising abilities in the service of a dynamic, virtually percussion-less sound. Dense with overdubbed picking and noises wrought from Wong's impressive eight-pedal effects chain, it's a rewarding listen, one which sounds more deliberate and detailed with every new spin. Despite his old-school influences (Les Paul, Brian Eno, John Fahey), Wong belongs on the same cosmic plane as new-school contemporaries like White Rainbow and Christopher Willits.

But as energetic as Infinite Love is, its motion is all internal, and carries the listener along on an aurally epiphanic inward journey.

"Where Ponytail was extrospective, (my live performances are) a lot more introspective," Wong says. "I've been noticing that people have been sitting more while I'm playing. At the same time, I'm imagining them dancing in their minds."

Dustin Wong

with Ben Kamen, Chung Antique
Saturday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m., all ages
Northern, 321 Fourth Ave., Olympia
northernolympia.org