Shelter & Orion With Turner Williams Jr. - Krakatoa 2

Shelter & Orion With Turner Williams Jr. 
Krakatoa 2
Les Disques Omnison 
France, 2026
LP 

A heady second outing from the inspired trio of Shelter, Orion, and Turner Williams. Jr., unassumingly called Krakatoa 2. The continuity of both title and artwork confirms the group knew what they were about the first time: genre-agnostic free jams bending the time and space between Fourth World mysticism and the gnarlier corners of the European tape-trading underground. The freaky 14-minute opener “Kamchatka”—named for a a volcanic Russian peninsula known as the “land of fire and ice”—clears the path (and perhaps the room) before moments of strange, alien beauty blossom and emerge. Equal parts challenging and rewarding, this is heavy listening for zoning out and zoning in.

FROM THE LABEL:

Almost two years after the release of Shelter, Orion and Turner Williams Jr.'s first LP Krakatoa, and following a live at the Instants Chavirés; here's Krakatoa second opus - pursuing their ECM-style esoteric improvisations, on the border in between the softest moments of Miles Davis's electric era and Don Cherry, Jon Hassell’s fourth world recordings... Swampy and murky jams of electronic, strings and inhabited vocals.