Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood

Released 17th December 2021.

After getting a handful a couple of weeks back, we now have a good supply of this wonderful album coming in: in for 14th May release date.

With her ambidextrous and pedidextrous, multi-instrumentaltechniques of her own making and influences ranging from videogames to West African griots subverting the predominantlywhite male canon of fingerstyle guitar, Yasmin Williams is trulya guitarist for the new century. So too is her stunning sophomorerelease, Urban Driftwood, an album for and of these times.

Though the record is instrumental, its songs follow a narrativearc of 2020, illustrating both a personal journey and a nationalreckoning, through Williams evocative, lyrical compositions.Williams, 24, began playing electric guitar in eighth grade,after she beat the