VINYL WILLIAMS
Q: Who or what inspires you?
A: Nassim Haramein’s Theoretical Physics, Scott Onstott’s Secrets in Plain Sight, Jimi Hey’s Rainbow Jail Mixes, my friends and collaborators at Non Plus Ultra, an unknown force, plus all the subterranean alien MTV live at the Paradise Moon (lunar jungle). Namely Brazilian British & Balinese harmony.
Q: What got you attached to these inspirations and realized you fell in love with music? When did you have that first adrenaline rush?
A: My great great great great grandfather was an American Civil War drummer. The first time I sat on a drum set, in a contest between who could play the best, either me or my friend, neither have which ever played was that time.
We all find the paradise of our own inner sanctum. The first was Dionne Warwick’s Promises Promises, which is a Burt Bacharach song. I heard it at a very young age and I felt the harmony in the b-section explode an intangible part of me. Whenever I went back to that song, or Warmth of the Sun by the Beach Boys, I knew there is a field of love that is totally invisible, space-based, and that we all share it and agree that it exists less subjectively than even the idea that we know we exist.
Q: Let’s go back to your family roots for a minute. What is it like being the grandson of one of the worlds most famous composers?
A: I feel blessed x 7 octaves, the word would be zealed, it is beyond belief, and can be harnessed, or spent at a cosmic casino. It’s up to you to evolve your DNA, not degenerate. Keep your telomeres clear. I’ve been in waves of ignorant magical misunderstandings lost in stoned fossilized memory coliseums.
Q: And your uncle Joseph is the vocalist for the band Toto and both your parents were musicians so was your household constantly frequently frenzy with sound?
A: Yes, I constantly heard 90s or Adult Contemporary middle of the road vanilla peanut butter banana music journey. Thought at age 5 that air supply was all music. I had no idea what love is.
Q: Going back two questions, you stated you had “magical misunderstandings,” what kind of magical misunderstandings have you had?
A: Writing a song as I go kind of things, committing to the uncertainty and unfoldment through shooting in the dark. It seemed to influence my stuff cause now I make sugary music, it’s way more melancholy though.
Q: And what did you take or learn from these magical misunderstandings?
A: That whatever forms you throw can be trusted and augmented to harness continually new forms of harmony. A lot of people just lose the love for their love, when all they had to do is commit to whatever it is, & the universe just kind of carries it like Moses down the Nile to the ear chasms of who desperately need it. Even with the art and videos I do, I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing. I just trust I’ll get through it and I do. A great thing to focus on is the service that you can provide to people.
Q: When you say “A great thing to focus on is the service that you can provide to people,” what did you mean?
A: When you’re making work, you’re making it for people. And even just that can spark an ambition unknown before. To really attempt to provide a positive currency for the benefit, only.
Q: That’s also a meditation-style mindset. Do you meditate?
A: Not much, if I quieted the mind more it’d be in my great benefit. I’m frantic minded, a workaholic. I’m mixing a live session right now. I think meditation would be the best thing for me. especially the Varpashana 10-day meditation method. The pain I would endure would unknot a lot of my habits and flaws.
Q: Before we get to your art because I do want to ask you a few questions about that. I have one last music related question. Do you think psych rock is too deeply rooted in the use of drugs? Do you think it’s possible to separate the medium from psychedelic drugs?
A: Everybody’s on something as far as I’m concerned. I think the freedom expressed through the use of drugs comes out in this kind of music. But to enjoy the genre drugs are not necessary. I think drugs are inevitably built into even something like the air at this point. It’s a dense subject. but my opinion to the world: psychedelic drugs should be done a couple times in your life, or less.
