![]() He and his group consistently zig when you expect them to zag. So my brain is just a sponge so anytime I can acquire knowledge or skill or be introduced to a type of music that is unfamiliar to me, that’s important…it’s important to get these collected philosophies and values from all sorts of musicians from around the world.”ĭespite Walker’s songs being a hodgepodge of the music that he adores, it’s completely unpredictable. Walker says that this is due to him being a major music fan first, musician second. In terms of sound and approach, one may detect hints of everything from Tim Buckley to Pharaoh Sanders and even a little bit of traditional Arabic and Indian music on this record. Instead of All Kinds’ predominantly stripped down sound, Primrose Green features Walker and a tight backup group performing a dense jazzy soundscape ripe with opportunities for soloing and jamming. Obviously they’re at different ends of the spectrum of sound but the energy of it and the collective controlled chaos of improvising is always there, it’s in everything I do.” “I think the energy of noise and punk carries through into what I do now. These sentiments come across easily when one listens to his music, especially the element of loose improvisation, which Walker says is an important aspect to his songs that carried over from his experimental noise days. It’s really therapeutic and I get a lot of joy out of it. Make it different and try to update a formula that’s been beaten to death and kind of make it my own. Walker’s philosophy towards his music is to “just make it new every time. Now, almost a year since All Kinds…was released, Primrose Green shows a skilled, young and ever progressing artist who’s absolutely in love with playing music. His debut record, All Kinds of You, is mostly a stark, intimate and nearly all acoustic record, allowing for Walker’s complex picking style and song structures to take center stage. ![]() Getting his start in punk and noise music in and around Chicago, Walker lately has been crafting tunes that sound like if the ‘70s jazz-tinged folk rock of Pentangle and John Martyn were left alone in the woods for numerous years to grow and evolve into a wholly new beast. Ith the last gasp of the bitter, steely winter months nearly behind us, the release of Primrose Green, Ryley Walker’s sophomore album, is like a deep soak of warm, revitalizing sunshine. ![]()
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