Keller Williams Shares Surprise New Album ‘Purps’

Keller Williams surprise-released a new album today, Purps. The LP saw the innovative musician utilizing a “crazy” recording process to create “psychedelic, head bobbin, background music. Perfect to talk over, when the conversation lulls,” as per a social media post.

Purps takes its name from Keller’s “purple room” in his house where he captured the album. Williams further detailed the fascinating process he used to record the new collection:

I created these songs by improvising a drum beat, on my then recently acquired Gretsch jazz kit. This was recorded with one overhead mic into a Tascam CD – RW900SL professional CD recorder. I would then take that CD and place it into the right side (the left side is shot) of my trusty Phillips CDR775 Audio CD recorder, with double speed. Then I would run that into a mixer and the mixer back into the Tascam CD – RW90OSL professional CD recorder. Then I would overdub bass and repeat that process with guitar, vibes and other strange sounding instruments.

Sound Crazy? It was,” Keller added. “Did I go crazy in the process? I did. Please enjoy.”

Stream Purps below:

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