To celebrate the 40th anniversary of both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, Williams Shift : We Were Wonderers will be 40% off for the next few days. The album is simultaneously an ode to Ted Williams and the cosmos, especially the Voyager spacecraft as they journey on beyond the edges of our solar system. We Were Wonderers by Williams Shift Per aspera ad astra! :::scott:::
After what seems like forever in the queue at the pressing plant, the vinyl for Williams Shift : We Were Wonderers has now arrived. The A/B LP is blue with colored streaks. The C/D LP is white with blue streaks and has an etching on the D side done by our great friend John Ringhofer (Half-handed Cloud). All pre-orders are going out in today’s mail. For those waiting until it was a real product, order now at the online store! :::scott:::
Here is the last song to stream from Williams Shift’s We Were Wonderers. It’s a mid-tempo track called “Tuning Into You (A Love Song From Voyager)” and features extensive lead vocals from Jill Purdy and supporting background vocals from Matthew Stone. A central theme of We Were Wonderers involves the fate of one Ted Williams’ head post-mortem. As Williams was nearing death, his son John-Henry, arguably against his father’s true wishes, committed him to be cryonically frozen. His body was transported from Florida to Arizona and the Alcor Life Extension Foundation mistakenly severed Williams head from his body and cryonically froze it. It’s more common to freeze just the head, rather than the entire body combined. In Williams case, the remaining decapitated body was also frozen. In exploring the Ted Williams mythology and its ramifications on the cosmos, Williams Shift imagines a future where cronically frozen heads are stored on satellites orbiting the Earth in near absolute zero temperatures. “Tuning Into You (A Love Song From Voyager)” furthers that idea and imagine two heads intertwining their thoughts and dreams, ultimately falling in love without bodies or hearts.The song also alludes to the distant Voyager satellite drifting across the galaxy, traveling…