That’s a loss for Chicago, but Thursday night’s wonderful sets by Tortoise and Walker showed that the city’s independent music scene - where rock, jazz, country and experimental music often overlap - is as vibrant as ever. And it’s uncertain how many more times we’ll get a chance to see the fantastic drummer Frank Rosaly playing with this band, as we did on Thursday I’m told that Rosaly has moved from Chicago to Europe. And it was particularly special because it offered a rare chance to see Leroy Bach - who produced the album - sitting in with the band. BillOrcutt shifts from deconstructing the guitar to reassembling it according to his own idiosyncratic design p4k. Walker’s set on Thursday at the Empty Bottle was a marvel. I recommend buying the deluxe 2-LP version, which adds a record containing a 41-minute live version of “Sullen Mind,” a song that is a mere 6 1/2 minutes in its studio version. Ryley Walker in 2015 Supporting folk godfather Richard Thompson on a tour of North America in 2019, Walker began to feel his life had become unmanageable. Walker’s new album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, is terrific, but its jammy folk-rock songs only hint at how jammy the group gets in concert.
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Like Tortoise and other Chicago bands - like Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society - Walker and his collaborators know how to stretch a song out, to revel in grooves, to explore a chord progression or melodic motif in ways that are hypnotic and enchanting. Ryley Walker’s music seems quite different from Tortoise at first glance, and yet, there’s some similarity, especially when he is playing live with his excellent band.
The show also featured a nice opening by Homme (a duo I’d seen recently at the Pitchfork Music Festival). 25 felt like a quintessential night of live Chicago music: seeing Tortoise at Millennium Park, followed by Ryley Walker’s late concert at the Empty Bottle. Tortoise’s instrumental music resonated beautifully in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, with the band members constantly shifting around the instruments, playing intricate patterns with almost astonishing precision. In May, Walker released his fifth album, Deafman Glance, with Pitchfork saying that “after several albums of traditional, jazzy folk-rock, the Chicago-based singer-songwriter finds a more instinctive voice." First Congregational Church is at 40 South Fullerton Ave.ĭoors open at 7:30 p.m. That rough-hewn yet considered approach is deeply felt in his new music, which draws from ‘70s rock, adding fuzzed-out guitars and proggy textures in an imaginative blend." 'I wanted to make something deep-fried and more me-sounding,' he says.
With his new album, Deafman Glance, the Chicago singer/multi-instrumentalist is expanding his sonic palette. Outpost quotes Pitchfork, "Ryley Walker conjures intricate tributes to 1960s British folk, infusing lush and sprawling guitar jams with baroque flourishes. He performs as part of Outpost's New Voices series, which presents emerging or “indie” musicians on the Outpost stage, exposing audiences to new or unfamiliar artists. Ryley is currently on tour but will back to Chicago on July 17 for the 2015 Pitchfork Music Fest in Union Park.
READ: SINGING 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' TO OUTPOST IN THE BURBS Primrose Green released March 31 on Dead Oceans. READ: THE KINKS' DAVE DAVIES TO PLAY OUTPOST IN THE BURBS Guitarist Ryley Walker lets go of the reins on the unruly but pastoral Primrose Green He’s tried punk, noise, and Fahey-style fingerpicking, but he’s about to reach his biggest audience yet. Outpost writes, "After spending a few years cutting his teeth on the city's indie and experimental music scenes, he began giving solo live performances on acoustic guitar." He has been compared to famed British folk guitarists John Renbourn, Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch. Ryley Walker is an accomplished fingerstyle guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Chicago.
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