Yasmin_Williams--Urban_Driftwood-(SIS0006)-WEB-2021-OMA

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2021-04-27

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 █████▀                Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood                 ▀█████
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 █▓▓▓▓    ARTiST..[ Yasmin Williams                                       ▓▓▓▓█
 █▓▓▓▓    TiTLE...[ Urban Driftwood                                       ▓▓▓▓█
 ████     GENRE...[ Folk                    CAT#....[ SIS0006              ████
 ████     LABEL...[ SPINSTER                ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5          ████
 ████     YEAR....[ 2021                    QUALiTY.[ 320kbps              ████
 ████     SOURCE..[ WEB                     MODE....[ Joint Stereo         ████
 ████     PLAYTIME[ 46:21                   REL.DATE[ 04.27.2021           ████
 ████     TRACKS..[ 10                      RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA             ████
 ████     SiZE....[ 106,23 MB               SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA             ████
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 ████     01  Sunshowers                                        04:20      ████
 ████     02  I Wonder (Song for Michael)                       05:29      ████
 ████     03  Juvenescence                                      03:56      ████
 ████     04  Dragonfly                                         04:49      ████
 ████     05  Swift Breeze                                      03:07      ████
 ████     06  Adrift feat. Taryn Wood                           04:41      ████
 ████     07  Through the Woods                                 05:25      ████
 ████     08  Jarabi                                            03:39      ████
 ████     09  Urban Driftwood feat. Amadou Kouyate              05:07      ████
 ████     10  After the Storm                                   05:48      ████
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 ████                                                    TOTAL: 46:21      ████
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 ████            https://yasminwilliams.bandcamp.com/album/urban           ████
 ████            -driftwood                                                ████
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 ████            Yasmin Williams sits on her leather couch, her            ████
 ████            guitar stretched across her lap horizontally              ████
 ████            with its strings turned to the sky. She taps on           ████
 ████            the fretboard with her left hand as her right             ████
 ████            hand plucks a kalimba placed on the guitarÆs              ████
 ████            body. Her feet, clad in tap shoes, keep rhythm            ████
 ████            on a micÆd wooden board placed under her. Even            ████
 ████            with all limbs in play, itÆs mind boggling that           ████
 ████            the melodic and percussive sounds that emerge             ████
 ████            are made by just one musician, playing in real            ████
 ████            time. With her ambidextrous and pedidextrous,             ████
 ████            multi-instrumental techniques of her own making           ████
 ████            and influences ranging from video games to West           ████
 ████            African griots subverting the predominantly               ████
 ████            white male canon of fingerstyle guitar, Yasmin            ████
 ████            Williams is truly a guitarist for the new                 ████
 ████            century. So too is her stunning sophomore                 ████
 ████            release, Urban Driftwood, an album for and of             ████
 ████            these times. Though the record is instrumental,           ████
 ████            its songs follow a narrative arc of 2020,                 ████
 ████            illustrating both a personal journey and a                ████
 ████            national reckoning, through WilliamsÆ                     ████
 ████            evocative, lyrical compositions.                          ████
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 ████            A native of northern Virginia, Williams, now              ████
 ████            24, began playing electric guitar in 8th grade,           ████
 ████            after she beat the video game Guitar Hero 2 on            ████
 ████            expert level. Initially inspired by Jimi                  ████
 ████            Hendrix and other shredders she was familiar              ████
 ████            with through the game, she quickly moved on to            ████
 ████            acoustic guitar, finding that it allowed her to           ████
 ████            combine fingerstyle techniques with the lap-              ████
 ████            tapping she had developed through Guitar Hero,            ████
 ████            as well as perform as a solo artist. By 10th              ████
 ████            grade, she had released an EP of songs of her             ████
 ████            own composition. Deriving no lineage from                 ████
 ████            ôAmerican primitiveö and rejecting the                    ████
 ████            problematic connotations of the term, WilliamsÆ           ████
 ████            influences include the smooth jazz and R&B she            ████
 ████            listened to growing up, Hendrix and Nirvana,              ████
 ████            go-go and hip-hop. Her love for the band Earth,           ████
 ████            Wind and Fire prompted her to incorporate the             ████
 ████            kalimba into her songwriting, and more                    ████
 ████            recently, sheÆs drawn inspiration from other              ████
 ████            Black women guitarists such as Elizabeth                  ████
 ████            Cotten, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Aligia Mae             ████
 ████            Hinton. On Urban Driftwood, Williams references           ████
 ████            the music of West African griots through the              ████
 ████            inclusion of kora (which she recently learned)            ████
 ████            and by featuring the hand drumming of 150th               ████
 ████            generation djeli of the Kouyate family, Amadou            ████
 ████            Kouyate, on the title track.                              ████
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 ████            Yasmin Williams is virtuosic in her mastery of            ████
 ████            the guitar and in the techniques of her own               ████
 ████            invention, but her playing never sacrifices               ████
 ████            lyricism, melody, and rhythm for pure                     ████
 ████            demonstration of skill. As she said in an                 ████
 ████            interview on New SoundsÆ Soundcheck podcast,              ████
 ████            ôThe songwriting process drives the techniques.           ████
 ████            I donÆt use techniques that arenÆt needed.ö               ████
 ████            Storytelling through sound is important to her            ████
 ████            too. As detailed in the liner notes, the songs            ████
 ████            on Urban Driftwood were completed during the              ████
 ████            COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, in             ████
 ████            the midst of a national uprising of Black Lives           ████
 ████            Matter protests in response to the killing of             ████
 ████            George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. The sequencing           ████
 ████            on the record intends to illustrate the                   ████
 ████            unfolding of these events, beginning with album           ████
 ████            opener ôSunshowers,ö with its rich texture of             ████
 ████            hammer-ons on pull-offs expressing innocence              ████
 ████            and collective excitement for a new year and              ████
 ████            decade, swiftly moving to the more                        ████
 ████            contemplative speculation of ôI Wonderö and the           ████
 ████            self-reflective ôJuvenescence,ö with its                  ████
 ████            Bridget St. John-reminiscent opening and                  ████
 ████            descending and ascending arpeggios throughout.            ████
 ████            On ôAdrift,ö the first track on Side B,                   ████
 ████            YasminÆs guitar engages in a call-and-response            ████
 ████            fugue with cello, played by Taryn Wood,                   ████
 ████            emulating the political unrest, chaos, and                ████
 ████            floundering of the country as it reckoned with            ████
 ████            the persistence of white supremacy and vast               ████
 ████            inequality.                                               ████
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 ████            The narrative plot of Urban Driftwood                     ████
 ████            culminates in the repetitive, meditative sounds           ████
 ████            of guitar, kora, kalimba, and hand drums on the           ████
 ████            penultimate title track, creating a sonic                 ████
 ████            landscape that communicates the feeling of                ████
 ████            movement and evokes images of the natural                 ████
 ████            beauty that persists within urban spaces. As              ████
 ████            she wrote the song, Williams was reflecting on            ████
 ████            her personal role in the context of the current           ████
 ████            societal moment, considering her position as              ████
 ████            Black female guitarist within a white male                ████
 ████            dominated field. Yasmin says, ôThere are not              ████
 ████            many Black guitarists within this genre and               ████
 ████            particularly with all of the political and                ████
 ████            social discord that was/is happening in the               ████
 ████            United States in 2020, I felt it was extremely            ████
 ████            important to include a song on the album that             ████
 ████            was inspired by my heritage and paid homage to            ████
 ████            who I am, the household I grew up in, the music           ████
 ████            I listened to as a child. æUrban DriftwoodÆ is            ████
 ████            more like the music I grew up listening to than           ████
 ████            any other song IÆve released so far.ö The                 ████
 ████            record concludes with the emotional, ôAfter the           ████
 ████            Storm,ö questioning the path ahead while                  ████
 ████            embracing a sense of peace through its                    ████
 ████            interwoven guitar parts. The track is a fitting           ████
 ████            denouement for this album, that while it                  ████
 ████            illustrates current struggle, canÆt help but              ████
 ████            open-heartedly offer a timeless solace.                   ████
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 ████            Williams is sponsored by GHS Strings, Shubb               ████
 ████            Capos, Skytop Guitars, Timberline Guitars, and            ████
 ████            Black Mountain Picks.                                     ████
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 ████            "The impetus of taking a photo is the rejection           ████
 ████            of trying to describe something that you hold             ████
 ████            dear. You just want to show it. And that's what           ████
 ████            Yasmin's record feels like." -Cameron Knowler             ████
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 ████            ôYasmin Williams truly is a guitarist for a new           ████
 ████            century. Unburdened by canonic lineage or                 ████
 ████            stylistic convention, Williams has discovered a           ████
 ████            way of playing that is wholly her own. The ten            ████
 ████            tracks on Urban Driftwood lay down a dense                ████
 ████            blanket of polyrhythm and deft technical                  ████
 ████            ability, a woven patchwork of microtonal                  ████
 ████            ruminations that express the emotions of an               ████
 ████            artist's soul through her instrument. Williams'           ████
 ████            harp guitar, acoustic guitar, kalimba, and kora           ████
 ████            blend seamlessly together, bringing subtle                ████
 ████            variation from track to track, highlighted at             ████
 ████            times by cello, Djembe and cajon. Lush and                ████
 ████            emotive, Urban Driftwood brings fresh invention           ████
 ████            and creativity to the fingerstyle guitar genre,           ████
 ████            showcasing a truly modern spirit that is sure             ████
 ████            to inspire.ö -Daniel Bachman                              ████
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 ████            ôYasmin's music is perfect for a gentle                   ████
 ████            afternoon dance or to create a few moments of             ████
 ████            peacefulness in your day. As a multi-                     ████
 ████            instrumentalist, her music fearlessly leads               ████
 ████            listeners through soundscapes and dimensions              ████
 ████            that reharmonize, recenter, and ground us                 ████
 ████            during these challenging times. Like the                  ████
 ████            album's ending track, "After the Storm," even             ████
 ████            the song titles remind us of the power of                 ████
 ████            nature and give us the courage to hope for                ████
 ████            calmness throughout the upcoming seasons.ö -              ████
 ████            Valerie June                                              ████
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 ████            ôYasmin Williams' second album, Urban                     ████
 ████            Driftwood, is the first work of art of 2020               ████
 ████            that has been able to push through the violent            ████
 ████            noise of this moment and leave me in a state of           ████
 ████            complete ease. æI WonderÆ and æJuvenescenceÆ              ████
 ████            are classic fingerstyle compositions that evoke           ████
 ████            instant familiarity but are anything but                  ████
 ████            derivative. æDragonfly,Æ æSunshowers,Æ and                ████
 ████            æAfter the StormÆ are so exquisitely crafted              ████
 ████            that they almostùbut not quiteùmanage to                  ████
 ████            conceal the depth of thought, talent, and                 ████
 ████            process that went into their creation. The                ████
 ████            entire album is like a perfectly designed                 ████
 ████            object, each surface so smooth and each corner            ████
 ████            so elegant that the entire thing belies its own           ████
 ████            brilliant origins. Fans of fingerstyle guitar,            ████
 ████            beautiful and deep composition, beauty, lofty             ████
 ████            aspirations, human decency, and everything that           ████
 ████            is still wonderful about creating anything                ████
 ████            today will love these recordings.                         ████
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 ████            Willams' playing is completely precise without            ████
 ████            any hint of pretension. The techniques she uses           ████
 ████            are innovative without a single unnecessary               ████
 ████            embellishment. From the bright but rich guitar            ████
 ████            tone, to the subtle layering of textures, to              ████
 ████            the specifics of each compositionùeverything is           ████
 ████            perfectly balanced. But it's impossible for               ████
 ████            these songs to become just the soundtrack to              ████
 ████            one's daily routine. This music seems to bring            ████
 ████            up memories I didn't know I had, it sharpens my           ████
 ████            mind and allows room for only the most                    ████
 ████            essential thoughts to push to the surface. It             ████
 ████            makes me want to do better, and for my words              ████
 ████            and actions to be as clear as my thoughts. Like           ████
 ████            a cold drink of water on a perfectly sunny day,           ████
 ████            it focuses and calms.ö -Kaki King                         ████
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 ████            ôI first came across Yasmin Williams in spring            ████
 ████            2019, when I noticed that she gave a concert              ████
 ████            with our friend Daniel Bachman. Here was                  ████
 ████            someoneùroughly my age, no less!ùmaking                   ████
 ████            inquisitive, focused guitar music that pushed             ████
 ████            past my frames of reference. Naturally, we had            ████
 ████            to tour. On a short run of Virginia and                   ████
 ████            Washington, DC last fall, Yasmin consistently             ████
 ████            brought the house down. Like her performances             ████
 ████            then and now, Urban Driftwood is full of                  ████
 ████            showstoppers (æOkay so what the fuck are you              ████
 ████            doing in æSwift Breeze?!ÆÆ I asked, mid-listen,           ████
 ████            as my jaw swung open), and recalls minimalist             ████
 ████            composers, griots, and Guitar Hero. It's a                ████
 ████            clear extension of Yasmin's compositional depth           ████
 ████            and remarkable technical skill on kora,                   ████
 ████            kalimba, and six-string and harp guitars, and             ████
 ████            sure to satisfy musicians and listeners alike.            ████
 ████            You simply must listen.ö -Eli Winter                      ████
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