*300 copies limited edition* "Turner Williams Jr.'s music unfolds like a crossroads, where ancient and modern traditions intersect and attract each other. We hear American Primitive Guitar (Robbie Basho, John Fahey, Sandy Bull), the trance of Indian ragas, melancholy of Celtic ballads, the most experimental side of French folk revival (René Zosso, Rémy Couvez, Pierre-Jean Croset, Valentin Clastrier), while allowing the memory of even more ancient music to filter through (Marin Marais, François Couperin). He reinvents these roots as he progresses through the years, a gesture inscribed in a singular path, a minimal impressionism crisscrossed by folk influence, following his scene peers Lise Barkas, Megabasse, Clément Vercelletto, Memotone …
Leaving behind the fuzzy landscape of Briars On A Dewdrop (Feeding Tube Records, 2022) and the post-psychedelic loops of Ensoleillée (Les Disques Omnison 2023), Turner's shahi baaja is alone, more than ever. The nakedness of the means employed and the purity of the instrument lay bare its fragility and intensify the experience. Walking into the void to the extreme, to see this obscure object of desire appear in overwhelming clarity. Here, simplicity is a path, and revelation is only possible at the price of abandonment. A true sense of quest reminiscent of Michel Vieuchange's pursuit of the mirage ofSmara in 1930, coupled with the hallucinatory and opiated aspect of Burroughsian Interzone, the maze of Borges' Aleph, and the isolation of Le Clézio's desert.