Blurred and Obscured on Substack! Exploring the art, music and movies I love!
Jonathan Herweg talks about the films, albums and artists he loves.
Greetings! As many of you know for the last decade I’ve hosted the subterranean radio transmission “Blurred and Obscured’ on WFMU in Jersey City. The show is my great passion and I’m constantly on the hunt for new and exciting sounds from the underground. The show takes it’s inspiration from the hours of digital and physical media I sift through every week, which doesn’t always just include music. That being said, I don’t always get to talk about the albums, artists, films, writers, composers and labels featured on the show in depth. I’m excited to be able to use this platform to take a deeper dive and share with my friends and followers artistic work of all kinds that I think is important and perhaps sometimes overlooked. Not everything I’ll be writing about will be new. I’ll be going back through the archives to share with you all of my favorite creative works, things that have enriched my life over the years and hopefully will bring joy and inspiration to you as well. So here it goes….
Turner Williams Jr. is an American expat guitarist and Illustrator, formerly of Alabama but now residing in Marseille, France. He’s been busy the last few years releasing a slew of LP’s and cassettes across a wide range of European and American boutique labels. Lately he’s been making exquisitely crafted solo records that feature a variety of string instruments. Williams has an immersive, meditative, jangly psychedelic sound. A sound that has hints of plucky American primitivism in it, but often veers off into wild experimental crescendos with waves of feedback and echoes. The drones and noise always seem to resonate at a tone that I find soothing. I could recommend almost everything in Williams’s varied discography but the release that I keep returning to is this 6 song EP “Ensoleillée” he released on Tom Val’s “Les Disques Omnison” label in 2023. Put out in an edition of 100 Hand printed LP’s the vinyl is long gone, but check out the Bandcamp link below.