Yasmin Williams - Acadia (2024) [FLAC] {Nonesuch 075597902525}
Release Info:
RLSDATE: 2025/10/17 RTLDATE: 2024/10/04
GENRE: Contemporary Folk SiZE: 337 MB
SOURCE: CD RUNTiME: 45:57
RiPPER: EAC 1.8 ENCODER: FLAC 1.5
DRiVE: ASUS SW-16D1X-U ORiGiN: Germany
RELEASE: Nonesuch 075597902525
MATRiX: 58473320/0075597902525 22
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The All Music Guide adds. . .
Yasmin Williams' guitar playing is spring-like and buoyant, a
soothing rain shower of notes or green shoots reaching for the sun.
Early on in her career, she developed an idiosyncratic style that
blended tapping techniques and playing the instrument flat on her
lap like a dobro. This was the approach on her 2018 debut, a D.I.Y.
instrumental folk record that unexpectedly made it onto Billboard's
Heatseekers chart. She was then picked up by North Carolina indie
Spinster, which released her more refined follow-up, 2021's
remarkable Urban Driftwood. The Virginia musician's upward trajectory
continues on Acadia, her third record and first for the legendary
Nonesuch label. It's also her most diverse release to date,
introducing a more layered sound that for the first time includes
vocals, electric guitar, and numerous guests.
While Williams' inventive compositions are their own draw, it's
interesting to hear what she does with a more established label,
increased notoriety, and presumably a larger budget. From the start,
Acadia is exploratory and confident, even joyous. Opener "Cliffwalk"
consists of little more than guitar and bones -- courtesy of fellow
folk traveler Dom Flemons -- but sounds exultant, a technical wonder
played with intensity for the back seats. "Hummingbird" is another
winsome romp of peaks and valleys featuring fiddler Tatiana
Hargreaves and banjoist Allison de Groot. On the celestial "Virga,"
Boston dream folk band Darlingside adds lush harmonies, as does folk
singer/songwriter Aoife O'Donovan on the sweet "Dawning." There are
percussionists scattered throughout -- sometimes on drums (Marcus
Gilmore, Malick Koly) and sometimes on foot (dancer Nic Gareiss) --
all sympathetic players in Williams's unique little world. Closing
out the nine-track set are "Nectar" and "Malamu," a pair of songs
that see Williams stretching out beyond her acoustic roots. The
former fuses a tight trip-hop drum pattern with mathy post-rock,
while the latter builds into a full-on jazz fusion session with
dueling saxophone and electric guitar solos. As technically gifted
as she is, Williams also plays with passion, and Acadia is easily her
most ambitious release to date.
Ripper's Notes:
Not much to add to this one that isn't already covered by the above
review. I am not as much of a fan of this one as the prior two though,
as this one starts to move a little too much into new age territory for
my tastes.
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