Walker also has a residency at Chicago’s Cafe Mustache in March, where he will be joined each week by a different selection of his local musician friends for an evening of improvisation. Walker will embark on a North American tour this spring with a run supporting Calexico, including dates at Thalia Hall in Chicago, Lincoln Theater in Washington, DC, and Music Hall of Williamsburg and Bowery Ballroom in New York City. Topping off this list of notorious Chi-Town players is Nate Lepine, who added a lot of flute and a little saxophone too. Drums / percussion are handled by Mikel Avery and Quin Kirchner.
Andrew Scott Young and Matt Lux play bass – Andrew supplying some double-bass, both of them played electric. LeRoy Bach also plays some electric guitar, whilst adding all piano and other keys. Ryley plays electric & acoustic guitars and was joined by long-time 6-string sparring partners, Brian J Sulpizio and Bill Mackay, who both play electric. Cooper Crain (Bitchin’ Bajas, Cave) recorded and mixed the album, as well as adding his shimmering synths all over it. Some later sessions also took place at USA Studios and in LeRoy’s kitchen. It was largely recorded at the Minbal (now JAMDEK) Studios in Chicago. That’s the sound I hear, all the time, ringing in my ears.”ĭeafman Glance is the second Ryley Walker album produced by LeRoy Bach and Walker himself.
Chicago sounds like a train constantly coming towards you but never arriving. And I think I succeeded in that way - it’s got some weird instrumentation on there, and some surreal far-out words. I was always trying to make something like this I guess, trying to catch up with my imagination. I just wanted to make something weird and far-out that came from the heart finally. I didn’t want to be jammy acoustic guy anymore. I wanted to make something deep-fried and more me-sounding. I was under a lot of stress because I was trying to make an anti-folk record and I was having trouble doing it. There’s a looseness to some of the songs I guess, but I didn’t want to rely on just hanging out on one note. “I think more than anything the thing to take away from this record is that I appreciate what improv and jamming and that outlook on music has done for me, but I wanted rigid structure for these songs. Today, he’s sharing the lead single, “ Telluride Speed.” Read Ryley’s statement below.
“ I think more than anything the thing to take away from this record is that I appreciate what improv and jamming and that outlook on music has done for me, but I wanted rigid structure for these songs. Listen to lead single ‘ Telluride Speed‘ now, and read Ryley’s statement on the album below. Ryley Walker has announced his new album, Deafman Glance, due out Friday, May 18 on D ead Oceans via Inertia Music.