Genre | Folk |
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Date (CEST) | 2021-04-27 21:20:39 |
Group | OMA |
Size | 105 MB |
Files | 10 |
M3U / SFV / NFO |
Yasmin_Williams--Urban_Driftwood-(SIS0006)-WEB-2021-OMA
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Tracklist (M3U)
# | Filename | Artist | Songname | Bitrate | BPM |
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1 | 01-yasmin_williams--sunshowers-oma.mp3 | Yasmin Williams | Sunshowers | 320 | Unknown |
2 | 02-yasmin_williams--i_wonder_(song_for_michael)-oma.mp3 | Yasmin Williams | I Wonder (Song for Michael) | 320 | Unknown |
3 | 03-yasmin_williams--juvenescence-oma.mp3 | Yasmin Williams | Juvenescence | 320 | Unknown |
4 | 04-yasmin_williams--dragonfly-oma.mp3 | Yasmin Williams | Dragonfly | 320 | Unknown |
5 | 05-yasmin_williams--swift_breeze-oma.mp3 | Yasmin Williams | Swift Breeze | 320 | Unknown |
6 | 06-yasmin_williams--adrift_feat._taryn_wood-oma.mp3 | Yasmin Williams | Adrift feat. Taryn Wood | 320 | Unknown |
7 | 07-yasmin_williams--through_the_woods-oma.mp3 | Yasmin Williams | Through the Woods | 320 | Unknown |
8 | 08-yasmin_williams--jarabi-oma.mp3 | Yasmin Williams | Jarabi | 320 | Unknown |
9 | 09-yasmin_williams--urban_driftwood_feat._amadou_kouyate-oma.mp3 | Yasmin Williams | Urban Driftwood feat. Amadou Kouyate | 320 | Unknown |
10 | 10-yasmin_williams--after_the_storm-oma.mp3 | Yasmin Williams | After the Storm | 320 | Unknown |
NFO
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█████▀ Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood ▀█████
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████ 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. ████
████ ████
████ 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. ████
████ ████
████ 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. ████
████ ████
████ 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 ████
████ ████
████ 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 ████
████ ████
████ ████
████ 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 ████
████ ████
████ 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. ████
████ ████
████ 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 ████
████ ████
████ ████
████ 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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