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Nov 7, 2024If the first third of the record was maybe a modernized version of County Records, and the middle third was Windham Hill, the final third is decidedly ECM territory, fusion with a folk twist, because that fingerstyle mastery is omnipresent. Hearing Williams’ fuzzed out lead on “Dream Lake” will send chills down your spine, it is completely inspirational musicianship.
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UncutOct 7, 2024So full of imagination and life-enhancing radiance that you could wallow in their fragrance all day. [Nov 2024, p.43]
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Oct 7, 2024As technically gifted as she is, Williams also plays with passion, and Acadia is easily her most ambitious release to date.
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Oct 25, 2024Somehow these seemingly disparate parts hang together as a thematically logical and coherent whole: there’s still some of the year left, but it’s pretty unlikely that there will be a more compelling and inspired guitar album than Acadia emerging in 2024.
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Oct 21, 2024Yasmin Williams continues to make increasingly intriguing and effective music, suggesting that, as that title might suggest, a new era is just beginning for her.
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The WireOct 7, 2024As hinted at by the title of its opening piece “Cliffwalk” the album’s forays into new sound worlds suggest Williams is poised on the edge of a fresh chapter, testing newfound powers. [Nov 2024, p.
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MojoOct 7, 2024Forgoing cynicism, she looks out on the world with unbound curiosity and zeal, every coruscant melody and glowing harmony another discovery. [Nov 2024, p.93]
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Oct 7, 2024Williams may be known for her inventive approach to the guitar – inspired as much by the spiritual blues of Elizabeth Cotten and American primitive guitarist John Fahey as it is Guitar Hero II – but it’s her egalitarian approach to collaboration that makes Acadia so alluring.
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Oct 7, 2024Her songs remain as focused as ever, and she uses these other musicians with the same consideration with which she uses various techniques; nothing is simply spectacle. More than anything else in Williams’ catalog, Acadia is open to tangents, wild ideas, sudden realizations, and sustained moods.
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