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At @guildcinema earlier tonight, Kevin and I did live soundtracks to 2 Palestinian films:
They Do Not Exist (1974): directed by Mustafa Abu Ali, 25 min.
Far Away From Home (1969): directed by Quais Al-Zubaidi, 12 min.
Thanks @porcinimountain for capturing this video clip.
18 Jun 2025
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07 Sep 2024
Thank you to mis hermanitos @akchamel_ for 5 years of great tours/shows/memories
27 Oct 2026
Some strange news: Apparently High Rise/Psychedelic Speed Freaks guitarist Munehiro Narita died 3 years ago, but news of his death was only made public this week.
Munehiro Narita's guitar playing means a great deal to me. He sits easily on the Mt. Rushmore of absolute face-melters. I've gotten more joy from his solos than, say, Hendrix.
He used 2 wah pedals chained together, in tandem with one of the nastiest fuzz tones ever, to show everyone God's face. At his full-on best, he made Keiji Haino sound like James Taylor.
Munehiro Narita, you are at the great motorcycle rally in the sky. Thank you for every note.
07 Jan 2026
Thanks so much @thurstonmoore58 for putting the Turner Williams Jr (@turndady )/Derek Monypeny "Drueling" LP on your year-end best-of list. We are in some very heavy company. Cheers
28 Dec 2025
We are thrilled that @bandcamp has named "Voiceless Mass" one of the best classical albums of 2025! Our beautiful double-LP edition is available for order via the links in our bio.
@ravenchcn @presentmusicmke @new.world.records
18 Dec 2025
On the last Bandcamp Friday of the year, a recap of my year in rock.
2025 was all about collaboration for me - specifically, improvised duo collabs. Thank you to my brilliant constituents:
@orcora @turnerwilliams_jr @cecylruehlen
My label, Yucca Alta, had the distinct honor of releasing the deluxe double-LP edition of Raven Chacon and Present Music's "Voiceless Mass."
@yucca_alta @ravenchcn @presentmusicmke
All of this stuff is available on Bandcamp and today would be a good day to snap it all up.
05 Dec 2025
Raven Chacon's "Voiceless Mass" LP has been named one of 2025's best records in the "Modern Composition " category by Julian Cowley of the Wire magazine. Yucca Alta Records is honored to have released the double-LP edition of this modern masterpiece. Buy it today through our Bandcamp or through yvml.org.
@ravenchcn @presentmusicmke @new.world.records
02 Dec 2025
Long time coming on this collab recording with friend, label mate and fellow desert dweller @derek_monypeny. ARID PARALLEL is out now on Harmonic Ooze Records.
“When two desert ecosystems collide, the arid terrain blossoms with thriving biological and geological diversity, generating the feeling of existing in two superimposed universes at once….”
Link in bio / comes on CD and am indebted for the beautiful liner notes writing by @_ash.ing feeling their way through these two compositions. I hope you enjoy🥰
14 Nov 2025
New-In: So pleased to have acquired copies of this beautiful 3-sided LP gatefold edition of _Voiceless Mass_, the Pulitzer Prize award winning composition by transdisciplinary artist Raven Chacon and performed by Milwaukee’s Present Music.
The 3Lp comes courtesy of @heidi_schwegler and @derek_monypeny via @yucca_alta. The CD came out on New World Records.
We love clerical and liturgical music and this award winner b/w title track points straight to one traumatic core of the Church.
The artist describes the composition as “composed specifically for the Nichols & Simpson organ at The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin but can be performed in any space of worship with high ceilings and pipe organ.
The composition was a site-specific commission to utilize the organ for Present Music’s annual Thanksgiving concert. As an Indigenous artist, I make a point not to present my work on this holiday, but in this case I made an exception.
This work considers the spaces in which we gather, the history of access of these spaces, and the land upon which these buildings sit. Though ‘mass’ is referenced in the title, the piece contains no audible singing voices, instead using the openness of the large space to intone the constricted intervals of the wind and string instruments.
In exploiting the architecture of the cathedral, _Voiceless Mass_ considers the futility of giving voice to the voiceless, when ceding space is never an option for those in power.”
“Owl Song” (2021) on Side 3 is next level! And liners from Eric Smigel offer insights.
The double-LP also includes artwork etched directly into the vinyl on Side 4. We have it priced exceptionally low, folks, having acquired this direct from Derek after his show last week with @akchamel_ and @ocrilim
Entirely certain that Chacon, who has worked with our bff @halfnormal (among many others), is the only MacArthur Fellow/Pulitzer Prize winner to ever perform in a project called Dog Shit Taco. We blame Cal Arts!
Chacon’s recent survey at the @swissinstitute remains a favorite.
#fieldrecordings
#american #ledger
#report
Cc:
@ravenchcn
@presentmusicmke
@new.world.records
11 Nov 2025
Thanks to @flowstatefm for sharing some of my music with their readers/listeners, and for conducting a pretty wide-ranging interview with me.
30 Oct 2025
LAWDY LAWDY i’m 40. yessir yes ma’am it’s my birthday & my new duo LP with @derek_monypeny is out now on @2182recordingcompany and LOOK! here are my paintings from the sleeve art. LP & bandcamp only. Also included, a special educational poster about the Shahi Baaja that I made 🤓 info 4 this lovely record below VOILÀ👇 link in bio
Turner Williams Jr & Derek Monypeny
“Drueling” LP/digital
2182 Recording Company
2025
Mixing by @dharma_sound @derek_monypeny
Mastering by Mark Gergis @_porest_
Design by John Hubbard
Paintings & Photography by Turner Williams Jr.
Drueling is the first meeting of Turner Williams Jr. and Derek Monypeny, two American pickers of the avant underground known for their deep excursions on the shahi baaja, a 15 string electric keyboard-zither of modern Indo-Japanese origin.
Drueling is a dialectic of twang. Williams hails from the American South and Monypeny from the Southwest. Country fried humid misterioso meets bonedry waveforms stretching skyward. These sessions occurred in Marseille, France on a limestone crest above the Mediterranean, evening and morning in early Spring. Following a long correspondence, Monypeny met Williams at his adopted home under crackling powerlines and looming electrical towers.
Nominally a duo record, this slab presents the dissolve and dialogue of 30 strings blurring into one, suggesting the translucent blur of 60s Cale/Conrad and the randomized grace of Oval tripping over Chet Atkins on a peyote toot with Jerry Reed and/or Les Paul. Their wide open third-minded automatism honors the history of their instruments with a heavy dose of subversion in Sun City Girl’s anti-tradition of respectful disrespect. Who wants to hear a couple of yankee corndogs playing “proper” shahi baaja in 2025?
Drueling marks the spot where sunblind stupor meets porchzorch faceoff and the pupils dilate into gaping maws that drool in stereo.
#shahibaaja
#keyboardzither
#bulbultarang
#japanesebanjo
#indianbanjo
#suncitygirls
#spaceprophetdogon
23 Sep 2025
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