Turner Williams Jr. - Vipérine

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, experimental music scenes have been conjuring the bright and triumphant optimism of Western imperialism and its soft power: industrial music revealed in plain sight the body and soul crushing machines behind the consumerism, while, later, some confronted the candy-colored entertainment machine by distorting the fever dream that is daytime television and advertisement. These culture surgeons have been tirelessly dissecting our world's guilty conscience, vividly exposing its evil motives.

But at a time when the world is exposed to such a constant and brutal fire caused by the unrestrained forces of the Western empire, is there such a need to reveal its bad motives anymore? Do we need the obvious to be revealed? Shouldn’t we expect the fringes of popular music to reveal the joy of living, instead, something that seems to be fading right before our eyes? The experience of life - that is to say the experience of feeling, desiring and thinking - is so straightforwardly exposed by Turner Williams Jr. that the record happens to have an almost hallucinogenic or hyperreal quality: it's too genuine, too lively, too immediate to be completely real - thus reminding in a very indirect way of John Coltrane's recordings. It is an unrestrained and complete celebration of joy, in all its softness and harshness. A painful kind of joy. One of the best of 2026 so far! (M/M - wholesale: shops, contact us)