Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987 (Cassette) nick relph I was really just creating

I was really just creating a micro-genre for myself - pulling songs together that built on one another

chill pacing…maybe just music for dancing alone

Monk’s famous maxim—“The piano ain’t got no wrong notes”—opened up something essential for her

These recordings document the beginning of a vital

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Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987 (Cassette) nick relph I was really just creatingBlue Abstraction compiles a selection of Jessica Williams lost prepared piano recordings. These recordings document the beginning of a vital, solitary phase in her career: a period of intense sonic experimentation that began with physically altering a 64 grand pianocreating a new instrument, and from there, creating a new music. The results are breathtaking; from melancholic soundscapes with Satie esque lyricism to forcefully controlled cacophony,