SAUL WILLIAMS RELEASES NEW ALBUM ENCRYPTED & VULNERABLE + DROPS NEW VIDEO FOR TITLE TRACK

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Poet, musician, performer Saul Williams has released his new album Encrypted & Vulnerable, the first album he's ever categorized as 'spoken word', out now via Pirates Blend.

Encrypted & Vulnerable is the second in a series of three albums and part of the multi-tiered MartyrLoserKing project. The album is self-produced by Williams, mixed by Warp artist Gonjasufi and features contributions from Dave Sitek, My Brightest Diamond, Grammy-winning trumpet player Christian Scott (Atoms For Peace), astrophysicist Bianca Rhym, King Britt, Orko Eloheim, Thavius Beck, CX KiDTRONiK, Paul Whiteman and Lippie.

The album also acts as the score to his directorial debut musical, Neptune Frost, executive produced by Stephen Hendel based on the graphic novel Williams will be releasing in 2020 about African hackers living in a village made of upcycled computer parts. Of the album, Williams explains:

"Encrypted & Vulnerable is simultaneously a personal and intimately optimistic takedown on struggle, defiance, awareness, aloneness, and a takedown of heteronormative capitalistic patriarchal authoritarian politics in topics ranging from love, technology, religion, war, to migration."

Watch the video for the title track directed by actress, playwright, and director Anisia Uzeyman. The visual stars Saul alongside jazz trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and a beautiful cast dressed in a sea of colors. Styling for the video comes from Autumn Randolph with hair and makeup by Tanya Melendez. Describing the video Williams notes that it's "a power bank. Fortified by the footprints of migrants and the rarest of minerals, it is charged and recharged by the harmonious interweaving of human awareness, space/time alignment, and electromagnetic frequencies on the spectrum of light."

With the new album, Williams' goal was to touch people in new ways with what he calls "invisible and implied beats". While listening fans will find themselves bumping their head to the tracks that have no drums, achieved through Saul Williams demanding grasp on language through his poetry as well as how he programmed the music: "I wanted to make an album with invisible beats- I always want people to dance - but this time I wanted the drums to be DIY. I figured the drums in your head could be crazier & more complex than anything I could program. So I started working on sounds that would instigate that. You feel the rhythm & you're already dancing in anticipation of the drums... that was one goal of the album."



BUY / STREAM Encrypted & Vulnerable
https://found.ee/FMEnPr

Encrypted & Vulnerable Liner Notes, written by Lynnee Denise:
http://saulwilliams.com/encrypted-vulnerable-epk



TRACKLIST:

Coronation As Harness
I Own The Night (Sufi Vision)
Experiment
Underground
Before The War
People Above The Moon
Encrypted & Vulnerable (feat. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah)
Fight Everything
Dare
Full Of Shit (feat. Lippie)
Infinite
Magnify The Feeling
Thought About It

July 18, 2019 12:05pm ET by Pressparty  

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