The new album by London-based musician/composer Ian Williams marks an abrupt handbrake turn away from the minimalism of his previous release, ‘All Becomes Desert’ [2021]. Rather, 'Slow-Motion Apocalypse' is all about impact; the epic devastation of a civilisation hell-bent on cutting off its own life-support systems and a furious elegy for the headlong rush to exhaust the planet’s precious resources to enrich a handful of unvisionaries whose main preoccupation seems...
London based composer Ian Williams has written the soundtrack to the new documentary film by French director Eric Michel, 'Les Blessures Invisibles' (Invisible Wounds), which investigates the consequences for the Gabonese town of Mounana of almost half a century of uranium mining. For many years the town had been the biggest supplier of uranium to the French nuclear industry, but in 1999 its mine was deemed no longer viable and...
Let’s get this out of the way right now. Ian Williams’ new track is called ‘They Could Find No Cure’.
Taken from his recent acclaimed debut solo album, ‘The Dream Extortionists’, it was originally going to be released in January. It got delayed. Then, a global pandemic intervened and there never seemed to be a good time to mention a little bit of piano music with a title that professional...
Equal parts dramatic and dreamy, with a suitably ethereal and cosmic video to accompany it, ’And We Shall Never Know’ is taken from ‘The Dream Extortionists’, the debut solo album by East London based musician Ian Williams, which will be released in late March 2019.
Recorded between 2005 and 2017 on a 1904 Steinway baby grand in the French village of Cogny, an 1899 Blüthner at Studio Slaughterback in London...
Equal parts dramatic and dreamy, with a suitably ethereal and cosmic video to accompany it, ’And We Shall Never Know’ is taken from ‘The Dream Extortionists’, the debut solo album by East London based musician Ian Williams, which will be released in late March 2019.
Recorded between 2005 and 2017 on a 1904 Steinway baby grand in the French village of Cogny, an 1899 Blüthner at Studio Slaughterback in London...
Melodic and hypnotic, rhapsodic yet ultimately portraying the apocalyptic, the short piano based ’It Was No Accident’ is the opening salvo from ‘The Dream Extortionists’, the debut solo album by East London based musician Ian Williams, which is due to be released in the early spring of 2019.
Recorded between 2005 and 2017 on a 1904 Steinway baby grand in the French village of Cogny, an 1899 Blüthner at...
