Delights of the Garden is the 2002 debut album by Desmond Williams

Desmond Williams

Desmond Williams is an American electronica musician, as well as a record producer and was the chief sound engineer for the Eighteenth Street Lounge Music record label. Born in Jamaica and raised in Montclair, New Jersey, Williams has been known for his remixing and producing style.-Biography:In...

. On his first full album, Williams delves further into his Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n roots, tinging the electronica

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

 sound of his music with the dub

Dub music

Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...

 stylings of that nation. However, he also shifts through other styles, such as bossa nova

Bossa nova

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, soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

, and drum & bass.

Guest artists on the album included vocals by Portia Joo and performances by Javier Miranda on conga

Conga

The conga, or more properly the tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum with African antecedents. It is thought to be derived from the Makuta drums or similar drums associated with Afro-Cubans of Central African descent. A person who plays conga is called a conguero...

s, Chris Vrenios on guitar

Guitar

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, and Niv on scratching

Scratching

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. Williams played all of the instruments on all of the tracks except for Um Favor (congas by Miranda), Theme from a Dream (guitar by Vrenios), and This Morning (dj scratching by Niv).

The album was recorded at the Eighteenth Street Lounge studios in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, and mastered at Masterdisc in New York City.

Track listing

All tracks by Desmond Williams

Desmond Williams

Desmond Williams is an American electronica musician, as well as a record producer and was the chief sound engineer for the Eighteenth Street Lounge Music record label. Born in Jamaica and raised in Montclair, New Jersey, Williams has been known for his remixing and producing style.-Biography:In...

1. "Um Favor" – 5:27
2. "Cadence" – 4:42
3. "First Touch" – 5:01
4. "Theme From a Dream" – 5:00
5. "This Morning" – 4:38
6. "Dread a the Roughest" – 4:32
7. "Spy Glass" – 4:33
8. "Saturday" – 1:19
9. "Delights of the Garden" – 5:49
10. "Oxygen" – 4:35
11. "High Speed Drift" – 4:50
12. "For the Trees" – 4:02
13. "Brooklyn Blues" – 4:57
14. "Wilcher Waltz" – 4:43

Personnel

• Steve Raskin – art direction, design
• Chris Pupa Roots Vrenios – guitar
• Howie Weinberg – mastering
• The Williams Family – photography
• Desmond Williams – bass, guitar, keyboards, producer, beats