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William

by Ken Wohlrob

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cinnamondestroyer This could work as a soundtrack to almost anything. I'm picturing a desert highway and a "you thought it was abandoned but it's not!" little restaurant. Things blowing around in the arid heat. But hey, a freezing cold blizzard in Antarctica, trapping two coworkers inside a tiny weigh station, where they fear they may die overnight. An excellent soundtrack to their meet cute and eventual deaths. I can see it. Gorgeous echoing guitar. Minimalist melody line throbbing. Fucking beautiful. Favorite track: William.

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lyrics

A song is a stubborn thing. It’ll resist you with all its might. As you try to bend it and twist it, it will reject your strokes of genius, leaving you feeling like a damn fool for thinking they would work in the first place. A song will tell you, in no uncertain terms, what it wants to be. Only a jackass would ignore it.

“William” was a confounding son of a bitch. I wanted it to be more. So I kept throwing different layers at it. But none of them worked. What was there was all it wanted. And the more I listened to it, the more it reminded me of William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops. Basisnki could’ve done so much more with those decaying tape loops. But he was confident enough as an artist to listen to what the music was telling him. It didn’t need more. There was such a journey in those slowly decaying repetitions. To smother them in other things would’ve dragged them down.

What I had was a single take of a repetitive guitar riff, played live through a reverse-echo feedback loop for 11 minutes. The feedback loop created oscillations and repetitions that took on a life of their own, extending past the riff, even re-absorbing it. There was a compelling journey in that single guitar line.

The soundscape is named after Basinski since he inspired the approach and after my father, who is also named William, because he’s had an interesting journey himself. Give it a spin and see where it takes you.

credits

released December 5, 2025
Performed and produced by Ken Wohlrob
Recorded at Quatre Cagne, Mohegan Lake, NY
March and October 2025
Cover Image by Melissa Pracht
Obsidian Sky Records #012
© 2025

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Obsidian Sky Records Mohegan Lake, New York

Experimental, ambient, heavy music. Home to musical projects from Ken Wohlrob and other artists.

discography

William

Dec 2025
The Conclusion

Feb 2025
Variac

Aug 2024
Simulacrum

May 2024
Writhe

Mar 2021
Wendigo

Jan 2021
The Jaunt

Jul 2020
Mine All Along

May 2020

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