Sam Wilson - Sowing Spring [self-released]

Coming in from Halifax, Canada recently and scheduled for release on October 14th, 2k26 is "Sowing Spring", the follow up to Sam Wilson's 2k24 also self-released album "Wintertides". Once again put out on the circuit fully independently Wilson's sonically deals with and is inspired by the melting Magaguadavic River in New Brunswick, Canada and its full on transformation from an icey state into water within only a week, directly witnessed in real time by the artist and composer throughout a stay at the river banks. From this real time experience arose the inspiration for her most recent longplayer, a set of eight instrumental cuts throughout which Wilson's signature guitar is accompanied by fiddle, alto sax, bass clarinet, drums and bass in various combinations and settings, providing a calm, beautiful and deeply naturalistic, in parts almost rural and folksy tone in the opening piece named "The Dry" whereas the subsequent "Rosedale" serves deep and fascinatingly jazzy rhythm signatures as a foundation for heartfelt string melancholia and slighty twangy guitar tones. Furthermore "Toad" focuses on a combination of seductive bass grooves and saxophones with an undeniable Deep Jazz twist in which Wilson and her guitar take on the leading role throughout an extended sequence starting way after the two minutes mark, a.k.a. half way in, with "Coneflower" leaning deep into love, yearning and romantic desire whereas the "Waxing Crescent" weighs in a surprisingly solemn and certainly nocturnal late night (Dark)Jazz feel just to name a few. But overall "Sowing Spring" certainly is what its title suggests. A spring album. Without any doubt. And musically it shows.

Album artwork on Instagram!