8/5/2023 0 Comments Twitter ryley walkerBoth of which are faithfully reproduced, with Fair Play particularly suiting the soulful nature of Walker’s voice. The two cover versions that Walker includes this evening are unsurprising in their respective authors’ influence on his own sound: John Martyn’s Over the Hill and Van Morrison’s Fair Play. It is also impossible for me not to draw a comparison to a certain alluded to 60’s icon as there are times tonight when Walker moves his voice into the upper registers of his range and the closeness to Tim Buckley becomes undeniable.Ĭlearly having fun, Walker plays and sings his songs with abandon fuelled by the ‘Brighton hospitality’ and admitting that he is ‘on top of the world’ during one of his many mid guitar tuning anecdotes. It is a voice that searches, yearns and yelps and it is capable of magic. It is a voice of rich timbre and astounding power that traverses octaves on a whim and in turn conjures jazz-like phrases repeated in mantra fashion until he decides to let you down easy and begin on a new trajectory. However, what sets this 25 year old apart from the numerous other guitar whizz kids becomes apparent when he opens his mouth and releases a voice that is quite simply one of the greatest noises I’ve ever heard in this venue. If this was all that was on display this evening I’m sure Walker would still attract a crowd. This is a great thing, a pleasure to listen to and be transported by as it never becomes overly fussy or showy and therefore steers well clear of the wankery of many modern day guitar virtuosos. ![]() This coupled with his dedication to open tunings and taste for jazzy chord inversions puts me in mind of the folk playing of Bert Jansch and 'Judy' era John Renbourn. It’s instantly clear to see and hear that Walker is a masterful guitar player in the folk sense, his finger picking is both graceful and dynamic, alternating between powerful thumb pick bass work to butterfly light top end arpeggios, initially delivered on glassy sounding 12 string. Walker arrives on stage for tonight’s solo performance in effervescent mood, basking in the positive affirmation that a sold out show brings, picks up his acoustic guitar which he coaxes into life with a series of raked harmonics and before long we’re off into a set comprising songs from new album, Primose Green, as well as some deftly delivered cover versions. That said there are moments during tonight’s performance that powerfully evoke several 60’s troubadours, whose names I’m sure have graced many a review and press release (more on this in a moment) and so inevitably begin to draw some comparisons. Given the surprise nature of my attendance, I have also no real preconceptions, have done no ‘research’ and therefore come without a pigeon holed picture of this artist. This material is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License ĭrop a note to letting me know which work you will use, and how it will be used.I’m pretty green when it comes to the music of Ryley Walker, having had the briefest of listens on the recommendation of a trusted friend, so tonight’s gig is an unexpected treat.Ryley Walker performs at Piknik i Parken in Oslo on 24. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. Attribution instructions:ġ) Credit Photo: Tore Sætre / Wikimedia in the immediate vicinity of the image.Ģ) You are encouraged, but not required, to hyperlink or display this URL, or on Twitter and Instagram my account you make use of this picture outside of the Wiki community, drop me a note and let me know how you are using the image.įor a closer crop, higher resolutions or other licenses, please email me at file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. When publishing, attribute this work to the photographer. ![]() I kindly ask that you do not make any changes to the photo. ![]() The photo can be used freely under the terms of the following license: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0. This photo was taken by Tore Sætre, some rights reserved. ![]() Norsk bokmål: Ryley Walker opptrer under Piknik i Parken i Oslo den.
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