Folk musician Jess Williamson to release new studio album Sorceress

Folk musician Jess Williamson will release her new studio album Sorceress on May 15th via Mexican Summer. Sorceress was written in Los Angeles, recorded at Gary's Electric in Brooklyn, and then finished at Dandy Sounds, a home studio on a ranch in Dripping Springs, Texas. Today, she presents a video for its lush, introspective and quietly anthemic lead single Wind On Tin.

Jess Williamson grew up in Dallas, Texas but moved to sunny LA some years ago at the time of her previous record Cosmic Wink. While she’s stayed true to her deep country roots, the music has grown in its ambitions. Offering a deep-hued kaleidoscope of dusty ‘70s cinema, ‘90s country music, and breezy West Coast psychedelia, Sorceress weaves a woman’s wild love letters to a confusing present and uncertain future—with reflections on femininity and the pursuit of perfection, New Age beliefs and practices, critiques of capitalism and social media, southern and western landscapes , and intimate details of the lives and deaths of loved ones and friends. It’s a record about loss of innocence and acquired wisdom that’s self-critical, self-assured, and soul-searching.

We’re in the midst of an occult revival, in large part because people are searching for meaning. Look at the rise of Tarot, astrology apps, crystals, and smudging kits for sale alongside fast fashion; and even online yoga. As the esoteric scholar Erik Davis wrote, “We turn to psychedelics, the occult, meditation, not just as another form of ideology, but because they reflect something true about the situation we’re in.” Magic is something that can live in chaos and make use of chaos, and these are chaotic times.

Wind on Tin is the first single fo the album. Jess Williamson explains: “Wind on Tin is a song about my experience of traveling to the remote desert town of Marfa, Texas to attend a memorial service for a friend who passed away. Grief has a way of making the veil between worlds very thin. Prior to the memorial service, I was sitting on a porch passing around a guitar and drinking beers with a few very dear people in my life who I look up to greatly and who were very close to the person who had passed. We heard an unexplainable sound in the wind that made us all pause. Like a flute, but more angelic. It kept going. We tried, unsuccessfully, to record it. The sound was indescribably beautiful and heavenly. “Was it the angels singing just for us, or is that what the wind out here does on tin?”” Listen to Wind on Tin below.

Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9RXQcbzniA&feature=youtu.be