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Good Willsmith — The Honeymoon Workbook
It is time we told you about my fascination with Good Willsmith’s The Honeymoon Workbook and the hauntology it carries on its antenna. A post-everything melange of overlapped static noise and dead radios, the Chicago trio’s debut is far from a mere improvised friendly gathering (although it practically can be).
This space travelogue stems from the band’s eclectic set of inspirations. Maxwell Allison and Doug Kaplan’s first collaboration is a prog-like project called The Earth Is A Man that reminded me a lot of instrumental Grateful Dead materials. It was Natalie Chami’s addition to the two that completed the circle. They have adopted shades of Sunn 0)), Merzbow, and Throbbing Gristle while avoiding their occasional edgier solutions and have let Hanson Records’ Songs of Indian Snake Charmer Volume 2 shape up their bones. Now if an ambient/noise lesson learned from all these arresting origins is not satisfying, chances are I am behind the right portal only in the wrong dimension. Hilbert anyone?
