Friday, September 17, 2021

Turner Williams Jr. - Let It Warp (September 17, 2021 Trouble In Mind Records)

Turner Williams is an Alabama-born artist and musician currently residing in Marseille, France who has performed and recorded under the moniker Ramble Tamble as well as a member of avant-garde troupe Guardian Alien. Williams is a master of the "shahai baaja", an electrified zither modified with typewriter keys that de-tune several strings, plus 12 additional unfretted strings that drone sympathetically. About "Let It Warp", Williams says "This music was shaped by the thirty-two winds of Marseille and the endless warp of life since I moved here at the beginning of 2020. Warping into whatever. All improvised in the hills above the city and recorded on my phone that also received voice memos from friends at home and transmitted streams to orbit wherever. For lost friends and wind and time. Let it warp." "Let It Warp" is Williams' first entry in Trouble In Mind's Explorers Series.

1. Thirty-Two Winds
2. Almost Liquid Fire
3. Powerline Sunset
4. Blunt County Fantasia
5. Blow Fused
6. Winter Wildflowers For Heidi
7. Memo From Johnny
8. Relentless Obliterating Warp

Turner Williams Jr.: electric shahi baajas, pedals, Riviera organ, phone, computer + art.
Carol & Leah Hamby: voices on "Blunt County Fantasia"
Johnny Coley: poetry and voice on "Memo From Johnny"

Produced by Turner at La Panouse Marseille, FR 2020-21
Mastered by Angel Marcloid