J. Wilms is releasing his third album as s singer-songwriter The Fighter on digital download, stream and 12” LP vinyl through Cart/Horse Records. Jeremy Williams came of age in the Atlanta, Georgia area and got a BA in Music from Georgia State University before going on to get a Master of Music at CUNY Queens College in NYC. His diverse career as a musician led him to jamming with Ornette Coleman at his loft, a brief stint in Chico Hamilton’s band on guitar, played bass on Broadway for a production of the musical Fela! which turned into the opportunity to play with Fela Kuti’s son Femi Kuti at venues around the world including The Shrine in Lagos, Nigeria. He has recorded with Bebel Gilberto, Beyoncé, TV on the Radio, arranged strings on Run the Jewels’ 2020 album RTJ4 and after moving back to Atlanta still works as a sideman in both his hometown and NYC, writing scores for film and other forms of media and as an educator. In addition to his singer-songwriter output Wilms is the leader of progressive metal band NOMOTO. With the new record Wilms gives us a set of songs about self-rediscovery and connecting with his roots without being limited by them. It’s a journey of an album with production that renders every song up close and personal, intimate, and thus vulnerable. It’s a open and deeply personal work with music that’s reminiscent of older rock groups like The Band and more modern indiepop of the 90s vintage and imbued with a freshness of spirit that makes for a set of songs that is immediately accessible and relatable to anyone that has ever had shake off the dust of life and reinvent oneself yet again while trying not to lose oneself.
Listen to our interview with Jeremy Wilms aka J. Wilms on Bandcamp and follow Wilms at the links below.
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