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The second piece Shrinks The Day – basically a contiunuum form the first which illustrates the sonic arc they were on – gently pulls us back to Haight-Ashbury for some Indo-folk rock (KM have sitar player Ryu Kurosawa among their number) and something more swirling and Quicksilver-Grateful- Airplane.įor music improvised on the hoof after just one rehearsal by Walker and his four-piece band with the five-piece Kikagaku Moyo, this edit of the event is very much an album of “smoke 'em if you got 'em”. Kikagaku Moyo dial back from their more psych-rock approach into a lovely post- Grateful Dead exotica psych-folk style for the opening half of the first of these two 18 minute pieces, Pour Dampness Down in the Stream.įor the second half they all shift pace, tempo and attitude into something akin to a minimalist folk-prog motorik groove which devolves into brittle, popping rhythms with Indo-jazz guitar lines. Walker has an excellent new album Course in Fable (mentioned in emails by some after Elsewhere posted its mid-year report) but here we default to this tripped-out psych-folk album recorded live at a festival in Utrecht in 2018 but which has only recently been released. Recorded By Audio Recorded By Don Funcken, Marc Broer. Sulpizio, Daoud Popal, Frank Rosaly, Go Kurosawa, Kotsuguy, Ryley Walker, Ryu Kurosawa, Tomo Katsurada.
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But in the right ears and in the right environment, it’s a sonic adventure worth taking.Although the name of the Japanese psych-rock band upfront here may not be familiar (we were underwhelmed by their Masana Temples album), many will know of American singer-guitarist Ryley Walker whose reference points are in the experimental Anglo-folk of Bert Jansch, Tim Buckley and John Martyn (and of course Nick Drake) as well as Astral Weeks-era Van Morrison ( alluded to on his Primrose Green album cover, one of our Best of Elsewhere 2015 picks). Performer Featuring Andrew Scott Young, Brian J. It ultimately explodes into a bit of kaleidoscopic, Velvet Underground-inspired drone-rock before dissolving into a sonic reprise of “Dampness’” opening theme and galloping off on a garage-band, guitar-and-percussion-driven coda.ĭeep Fried Grandeur is not for everyone.
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“Shrinks” is its counterpart’s opposite, looking toward the East in an amplified nod to Ravi Shankar with George Harrison’s western adaptations woven throughout. In 2021 Walker released Deep Fried Grandeur, a live album with the Tokyo. Deep Fried Grandeur with Ryley Walker & Kikagaku Moyo. “Dampness” is one of two 18-minute tracks – “Shrinks the Day” is the other – that make up Deep Fried Grandeur, the new joint between Chicago-based American guitarist Ryley Walker and the Japanese psychedelic outfit known as Kikagaku Moyo.ĭead and Zep comparisons notwithstanding, it’s impossible to know where Ryley and the band come together – or, indeed, break apart – as this instrumental LP finds them fully integrated in a batch of sometimes-formless psychedelic soup that entertains in spite of itself. Ryley Walker (born July 21, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from. Eleven minutes in, “Pour Dampness Down in the Stream” blossoms into a percussive jam not unlike the Grateful Dead coming out of “Space” into “The Other One” or Led Zeppelin crashing into “In the Evening.”