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Photo: Lauren Desberg<\/p><\/div>\n

Today sees the release of \u0153conomy<\/em>, the new album from composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer brad allen williams<\/a>. Known as a guitarist of extraordinary virtuosity, on \u0153conomy<\/em> williams “was determined to find non-referential uses for his main instrument, the electric guitar”, which sprouted into a daring and astonishing album that exists at the borderlands of jazz, neoclassical, and experimental music.<\/p>\n

williams had preciously shared two stellar singles from the album, ‘tecnologia’ ft. Mark Giuliana and more recently ‘boomer’. Of the latter, he commented:<\/p>\n

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“Self-conscious avoidance of all the electric guitar\u2019s accumulated cultural baggage sometimes feels reflexive, and I found myself doing a lot of it during the making of this album. But sometimes the best way out is through.<\/p>\n

Co-producer Pete Min suggested we plunge headlong into the abyss: to make a distorted-guitar riff rocker, but find a way to use that clich\u00e9\u2019s own powers against it.<\/p>\n

We plugged guitars into Moog synthesizers instead of amplifiers, I played some Bonham-inspired drums into a single microphone, and we amused ourselves with an earnest-but-not-entirely-earnest guitar solo and Stylophone coda. The result grew on us quite a bit; I really hope my genuine love of guitar heroism (and the blues in all of its many guises) gets across.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Listen to both tracks below and grab \u0153conomy<\/em> now through Colorfield Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n