Showing posts with label Luke Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Luke Williams. Show all posts
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Audio Archives from the Dada years
Unearthed a 2 year old recording of Luke Williams singing 'Bullets', by Tunng, in a room full of a bunch of us making noise at the Dada Factory. good times.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Lost Fair Mariner
I've Moved! To celebrate, I'll post a video from the community I left! Just to fill myself with nostalgia and doubt!
Here's an excellent new track from Luke Williams, a biographical seafairing ballad. Luke and I were talking about Captain Thomas James, the dandy poetic wayfairer who inspired this little track, and the notion of mutiny when your life's at stake. When we're in a subordinate position and have to make a call to rebel, as the stakes are too high to stay silent. Echoes of other things.
Luke, never content to take the easy way out, not only played every instrument on this track, but also filmed himself playing every instrument on this track, I assume setting up the lights, camera, and pushing record himself before going and busting out the recording. Forget one man bands, he's a one man army! Read More......
Here's an excellent new track from Luke Williams, a biographical seafairing ballad. Luke and I were talking about Captain Thomas James, the dandy poetic wayfairer who inspired this little track, and the notion of mutiny when your life's at stake. When we're in a subordinate position and have to make a call to rebel, as the stakes are too high to stay silent. Echoes of other things.
Luke, never content to take the easy way out, not only played every instrument on this track, but also filmed himself playing every instrument on this track, I assume setting up the lights, camera, and pushing record himself before going and busting out the recording. Forget one man bands, he's a one man army! Read More......
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Luke's Show, Luke Sez
My dear buddy Luke Williams has some news!:
"Hi friends,
This Thursday is going to be a really big show for Matteo. We're going to be playing some new stuff that we're really excited about, including one song that I wrote.
This is also a big show for me personally, as I'll be playing a pretty large set of exclusively new stuff (post-ancient eyes EP). So, new stuff! yeah! good job luke!
Here's the info:
2/18/10 @ Kilby Court, 7:00, $6. The set order will be: Luke Williams, Matteo, The Archer's Apple.
You can listen to the Matteo EP here: www.myspace.com/chinesematteomusic"
I'll be there! Read More......
"Hi friends,
This Thursday is going to be a really big show for Matteo. We're going to be playing some new stuff that we're really excited about, including one song that I wrote.
This is also a big show for me personally, as I'll be playing a pretty large set of exclusively new stuff (post-ancient eyes EP). So, new stuff! yeah! good job luke!
Here's the info:
2/18/10 @ Kilby Court, 7:00, $6. The set order will be: Luke Williams, Matteo, The Archer's Apple.
You can listen to the Matteo EP here: www.myspace.com/chinesematteomusic"
I'll be there! Read More......
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Luke Williams EP, new music on the scene.
I have a soft spot for local music. When someone close to me makes a song it usually resonates more, so I'm not usually a very reliable music guru. I get all emotionally invested. But when Luke Williams told me he was releasing his debut E.P Ancient Eyes I got disproportionately excited, because not only is Luke a local guy but he's a freakin' musical genius as well. He breathes the stuff, has since he was about 12.
None of that matters when you throw on some headphones and start up his album. Kid's got talent, and speaks in crafty tounges. I believe he recorded just about every instrument on the mix himself, and they're all completely pro. For example: The accordion track on We Were Wrong? Luke, frustrated at the lack of a concert organ in the vicinity of his house, dug his dad's old accordian out of the basement and taught himself how to play it for the track in about a day. What a jerk!
I really like what he's done, the moods of the tracks he puts back to back. Songs like Mary Alice, We Were Wrong and Topaz have just enough jive plus sincerity to really last, and the vocal harmonies he throws in here and there really take it up a notch. I feel hints of everything from Jethro Tull to Skybox to Ben Harper. But the song for the ages, the one 5 years before its time in his musical repertoire, for me, is Don't Leave Me Alone...
The lilting progression on the track.... hurts in a really powerful way. Someone as young as Luke (or me, for that matter) shouldn't know this loneliness, to me it's astonishing to hear this kind of reflection in someone else's art. The emotions in this song make me sublimely sad, and his treatment of them makes me smile. Good on ya, Mr. Williams.
Some criticisms: Don't Leave Me Alone gets my personal gold star, but I'm holding out a request for an acoustic, more lo-fi version without the initial blast of blues guitar. I liked the version where you could hear the empty apartment, you know? But it's still a crushingly good song.
Also, Luke's more sunshiney stuff (Sunflower) leaves me a bit empty; I tend to dig his darker, smokier tunes. If this is his debut, though, we can expect some seriously impressive music from him once he's gone on a couple cross-country adventures and suffered a few bumps. Everything along the way promises to be really, really good.
The 7 Song EP Ancient Eyes is available to download free right here. Read More......
None of that matters when you throw on some headphones and start up his album. Kid's got talent, and speaks in crafty tounges. I believe he recorded just about every instrument on the mix himself, and they're all completely pro. For example: The accordion track on We Were Wrong? Luke, frustrated at the lack of a concert organ in the vicinity of his house, dug his dad's old accordian out of the basement and taught himself how to play it for the track in about a day. What a jerk!
I really like what he's done, the moods of the tracks he puts back to back. Songs like Mary Alice, We Were Wrong and Topaz have just enough jive plus sincerity to really last, and the vocal harmonies he throws in here and there really take it up a notch. I feel hints of everything from Jethro Tull to Skybox to Ben Harper. But the song for the ages, the one 5 years before its time in his musical repertoire, for me, is Don't Leave Me Alone...
The lilting progression on the track.... hurts in a really powerful way. Someone as young as Luke (or me, for that matter) shouldn't know this loneliness, to me it's astonishing to hear this kind of reflection in someone else's art. The emotions in this song make me sublimely sad, and his treatment of them makes me smile. Good on ya, Mr. Williams.
Some criticisms: Don't Leave Me Alone gets my personal gold star, but I'm holding out a request for an acoustic, more lo-fi version without the initial blast of blues guitar. I liked the version where you could hear the empty apartment, you know? But it's still a crushingly good song.
Also, Luke's more sunshiney stuff (Sunflower) leaves me a bit empty; I tend to dig his darker, smokier tunes. If this is his debut, though, we can expect some seriously impressive music from him once he's gone on a couple cross-country adventures and suffered a few bumps. Everything along the way promises to be really, really good.
The 7 Song EP Ancient Eyes is available to download free right here. Read More......
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