Drew Williams releases an astounding effort entitled “Wobble - EP”
Kansas City based composer, teacher and multi-instrumentalist Drew Williams has been bridging the gap between what seems elusive with experimental and improvised approaches to music with what can be achieved with more youthful instinct and a genuine sense of curiosity. An evaporating world eater of sound and magnetic manipulation, Williams expresses a great deal of Avant admiration and a shadowy resilience with his compositions found on his most recent EP entitled “Wobble”. Exploring boundaries of electrified tapestry and manipulated gestures, Williams rolls the ivory dice thumbless across a dilated landscape of highjacked magic and precious memory. Recorded during the summer of ‘22, “Wobble” declares evolution and carefully articulates chaos and texture in a way that gives its listeners this Panavision view of the world through battered slits.
Across the EPs 7 tracks, its same-title opener, “Wobble”, rents out space in this antique bardo with a white picket fence equator where its organic movements are subtle yet densely calculated in both Jazz and freedom blues. Stretching across some holographic atmosphere littered with dull crystals and a reversed language, tracks such as “Mumble” and “Squeal” challenge the distinction between mountain/temple and garden/altar with compositions trapped in moist chambers and weaponized curiosity. Williams builds an invisible apparatus of nerves and wire bound with ceramic bone casting notes from a phenomenal wind apparatus. A weaving, boundless body of songs, the “Wobble” EP is a stellar investigation into the human psyche. Its contents ancient and physically masterful, Williams conjures up an accurate history of how the world and the people in it once were. A simple framework with complexities burning bright like Middle-Eastern oil fires. Haunted pressures building within the Arundo donax to express something big. Jazz…
