![]() They are Robert Schumann’s mid-19th-century Frauenliebe und Leben (“A Woman’s Love and Life”) and Leos Janacek’s early-20th-century The Diary of One Who Disappeared. Hence “ He/She,” the pair of song cycles about obsessive love on tap this weekend. A year later, COT decided it would be prudent to postpone the Shostakovich (it’s now scheduled for next April) and substitute something less costly. In spring 2009 patrons of Chicago Opera Theater, voting early and often and paying a dollar each time for the privilege, chose an obscure Shostakovich comedy, Moscow, Cheryomushki, for COT’s 2011 season. Peter MargasakĬLASSICAL | A “moving painting” at Chicago He gigs frequently, mostly at underground DIY venues that take some Google skills to find, and this June he leaves on a three-month U.S. For the past year, he says, he’s been focusing on writing folk songs in the sprit of “big-voiced” greats like Tim Hardin, Fred Neil, and Tim Buckley. Walker moved to Chicago from Rockford about three years ago, and since then his interests and influences have multiplied exponentially. ![]() The smartly interactive music they make together incorporates some fingerstyle work, but there are also atmospheric electric-guitar textures and spaced-out drones. ![]() In June the label plans to release another of Walker’s duo projects: in Princess Anne he plays with Daniel Bachman, a guitarist from Fredericksburg, Virginia, who performs under the name Sacred Harp. Earlier this year Plustapes released Tiny Cancer, a double cassette of raw, abstract free improvisation by Wyoming, a duo of Walker and Andrew Scott Young (on upright bass and acoustic guitar). ![]() Even more impressive than Walker’s skill is the fact that he’s only 21.įingerstyle isn’t his only talent, either. Each evolves with a graceful flow, moving from thickets of arpeggiated notes to spacious, circular shimmers to visceral bottleneck slides. Largely improvised around small kernels of melody, the performances are mostly first takes recorded in a friend’s kitchen. On Tuesday Plustapes released Walker’s The Evidence of Things Unseen, an impressive album of solo acoustic fingerstyle guitar that owes a clear debt to pioneers like John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke (at least his early work). “Listening to it again later, I was able to pick up some of the subtle flubs that made me realize this was actually just him doing a home recording.” “We listened to it in the car on the way home, and at first I thought the kid was possibly fucking with me and he just straight-up dubbed a Fahey record,” says Drase. Leor GalilįOLK | Plustapes introduces fingerstyle prodigy Ryley Walkerĭustin Drase of Plustapes first heard guitarist Ryley Walker a couple of years ago: Drase was selling stuff at the record fair at the Pitchfork Music Festival, and Walker came up to him and gave him a cassette. Lincoln Brain Idea and Alex Barnett open, and cover is $10. ![]() Implodes celebrates the release of Black Earth with an 8 PM show Sun 5/8 at Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Some have been released already too, albeit on cassette and in extremely small editions-in July 2009, for instance, Plustapes issued a self-titled collection of Implodes demos a couple weeks before the group made its live debut at the Whistler. Though Black Earth has been available less than a month, most of its songs have been in Implodes’ repertoire in one form or another since the first few weeks of the band’s existence. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Line-Up Announced > Close ![]()
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