WCW by Alex McMahon (CD)

Best described as a single piece of music with multiple movements, WCW is a departure from the expected and a dialogue with the works of one of America’s most respected poets: 11 songs framed around the poems of William Carlos Williams, that offer an interpretable framework to be fleshed out in a uniquely un-americana way. What began for Alex McMahon as a simple exercise of what-ifs morphed into a warbly stream of consciousness that echoes the old Albuquerque sound - the glue and plaster that Alex works with. WCW is both a gateway to and interpretation of the evolving, multifaceted dimensions found in this timeless poetry. Each song is bridged to the next in noise-laden, disjointed 4-track remnants - keeping momentum and transporting the listener through along a cosmic web.