Listen to A Tap on the Shoulder in the context of Ryley’s glorious Course in Fable listento it in the context of Grubbs’s playing with Loren Connors, Jim O’Rourke, Taku Unami, and others or listen to it as if you’ve never heard note one from these soulful odd birds, the two of them curiously, quixotically committed to working inside and beyond song form.ġ.01 - David Grubbs - A Tap On The Shoulder (5:44)ġ.02 - David Grubbs - Accepting Most Plans (3:05)ġ.03 - David Grubbs - Uglification (13:22)ġ.04 - David Grubbs - Leslie Steinberger (4:28)ġ.05 - David Grubbs - Pump Fake On The Death Rattle (8:23)ġ.06 - David Grubbs - Dorothy Kept (2:52)ġ. Your Creep Mission, should you choose to accept it: bi-composed/improvised guitar instrumentals featuring Grubbs and Prismrose collaborator Eli Kenzler.
Juggernauts, A Tap on the Shoulder toggles effortlessly between microscope, telescope, and Cinemascope, letting the smallest of gestures land in all of its sonic specificity before opening the scene up to disorienting panoramas. And where the duo’s live performances thus far have been set-length David Grubbs & Ryley Walker Public Records Brooklyn, NY Recorded and produced by Eric PH for MBHO KA100DK/603A (stage lip) > Naiant PFA > Sound Devices MixPre-6 > WAV (24/48) > Audacity 3.0. What’s good for the geezer is good for the, etc. Ryley’s hellion musical fearlessness lights a fire under the more typically Apollonian, chess-masterly Grubbs.
Don’t think for a second that these shorthand descriptions suffice.Įlectric guitars make electronic music. Studio sessions were clearly in the cards, and the result is A Tap on the Shoulder, a collection of duo performances that veers from crystalline instrumental compositions (“A Tap on the Shoulder,” “Accepting Most Plans,” “Dorothy Kept”) to animated alien chatterfests (“Leslie Steinberger”), and from ecstatic extrapolations charging this way and that (“Pump Fake on the Death Rattle,” “The Madman from Massachusetts in an Empty Bar”) to, I don’t know, words don’t do the trick (“Uglification”). The Madman From Massachusetts In An Empty Bar You never know when that tap’s going to come.
RYLEY WALKER DAVID GRUBBS SIMULATOR
(One of these live sets was released earlier this year as Fight or Flight Simulator on Café OTO’s Takuroku label.) A Tap On The Shoulder by David Grubbs & Ryley Walker, released 03 September 2021 1. Whilst this may suggest the potential for a heavyweight album, it’s far from it. For anyone still finding it hard to mentally reconfigure Walker, it’s worth noting that since he moved to New York in 2019, there have been improv hook-ups with David Grubbs, JR Bohannon and. These are musicians at the top of their game, transformative players, and game changers. Mutual admiration society and David Grubbs and Ryley Walker had been taking notes on one another’s playing for some time before they hit the stage together on a couple of blistering occasions immediately pre-pandemic. You don’t approach players like Cameron Knowler, Yasmin Williams, David Grubbs, Ryley Walker, and Tyler Damon without some clear vision or purpose. How about now? (Not for you to decide.) Or exactly what it means-except in the aftermath. David Grubbs & Ryley Walker A Tap on the Shoulder Album Release / Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart at Public Records on Sun, Dec 12th, 2021 - 7:00 pm. MBHO KA100DK/603A (stage lip) > Naiant PFA > Sound Devices MixPre-6 > WAV (24/48) > Audacity 3.0.You never know when that tap’s going to come.
RYLEY WALKER DAVID GRUBBS DOWNLOAD
Stream and download the show at the Live Music Archive. I recorded this show with a pair of MBHO omnidirectional mics positioned at the stage lip. Ryley Walker isn’t touring with David Grubbs, but you can still catch him live this month and beyond. You don’t see two performers of this caliber get together very often, and I’m glad we were there to capture it. It sounds like they’re listening to each other just as much as they’re playing their own guitars.
For fifty minutes they alternate between ruminative wanderings and dizzying freakouts, neither soloing or overwhelming the other. Though the pair won’t be touring behind the record (for now, anyway), they did get together last month for a one-off record release show at Public Records in Brooklyn. The album brings the two former Chicagoans together for the first time for seven loose, explorative guitar tracks with Grubbs also contributing some piano. Way back in September, which is about a decade ago according to my experience of time, David Grubbs and Ryley Walker got together to release a fantastic collaborative album, A Tap on the Shoulder, via Ryley’s Husky Pants label.
0 kommentar(er)
