Karen Willems - A Fool's Guide To Reality (2025)

Belgian percussionist Karen Willems presents her album, A Fool's Guide to Reality. In this work, she creates a unique sound universe by blending nature sounds, field recordings, and her own voice with parts played on household objects, Javanese instruments, and toy synthesizers. Willems emphasizes that her music is not a conceptual project but an emotional and intuitive process inspired by everyday life and nature. The album's title is a wry commentary on the difficulties of creating art in a modern world obsessed with productivity. The result is an eccentric and playful album that blurs the line between music and the sounds of the surrounding world.

Tracklist:
1-1 Karen Willems - Waterdunen [3:42]
1-2 Karen Willems - Wild and Precious Life [3:56]
1-3 Karen Willems - Dragon Dance [2:19]
1-4 Karen Willems - To Roll [4:40]
1-5 Karen Willems - A Ballad, Anywhere, Anytime [3:02]
1-6 Karen Willems - Sounds of the Bongo Loco [1:40]
1-7 Karen Willems - Jeu Mikado [3:02]
1-8 Karen Willems - Flash Flood [6:42]
1-9 Karen Willems - Barefoot With Nothing [4:14]
1-10 Karen Willems - A Fool's Guide To Reality [5:12]