saulwilliams

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For nearly three decades, writer, musician, poet, director, and actor Saul Williams has occupied a singular place in Black culture, resisting the confines of genre across music, literature and film, and using art as a transformative device. Williams speaks, chants, improvises and testifies over fluid arrangements that blur the lines between spoken word, jazz abstraction, hip-hop cadence, West African rhythmic logic, ambient composition and ceremonial sound design. At times, the voice functions like a horn solo. Elsewhere, it behaves like a sermon. Then, suddenly, it becomes something closer to spellwork.