Barry Walker Jr. - Shoulda Zenith (2020) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Barry Walker Jr.
- Title: Shoulda Zenith
- Year Of Release: 2020
- Label: Holy Mountain
- Genre: Country, Ambient, Psychedelic Rock, Free Jazz
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 36 min
- Total Size: 146; 327 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
The sky goes on forever in Barry Walker's Shoulda Zenith, and it's crackling with unexpected lightning. The Tennessee-bred, Portland-based pedal steel master subverts his instrument's tradition for lachrymose, innocuous Rootzak™. Instead, he ventures to outward-bound strata more frequently traversed by Sonny Sharrock than Gram Parsons. “So often, the pedal steel is used as a textural flavor,” Walker says, “but it really can breathe fire itself.” Evidence for that claim abounds on Shoulda Zenith. Sprouting out of the strategies Walker used on Banjo Knife, his 2012 LP of Henry Flynt/Paul Metzger-like fiddle aberrations, the music on Zenith goes on similar extravagant tangents—but with pedal steel.
Assisted here and there by bassist Scott Derr, drummer Dana Valetta, and others, Walker has synthesized his love for country, New Age, freeform freakouts, and ecstatic music on Zenith. You may hear traces of the laid-back sinuousness of Texas psych-rockers Cold Sun, Fushitsusha's craggy, acid-rock excoriations, and Doug Sahm's sprightly melodic sweetness. You may notice “Insect Interlude” adding new colors to Terry Riley's Rainbow In Curved Air and “Up The Fan, Into The Keyhole” taking Sharrock's Black Woman to Appalachia. If you tilt your head just right, “Shoulda Zenith” and “Trinity Payload” may be the most psychedelic things your pandemic-besieged mind will encounter in 2020. Cosmic country didn't know it needed its own Inventions For Electric Guitar, but now that it's arrived, the Gilded Palace Of Sin is starting to seem like a dilapidated bungalow.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Barry Walker Jr. - Totally Tan (4:15)
1.02 - Barry Walker Jr. - Derr Of The Schwann (Break Of The Dawn) (1:50)
1.03 - Barry Walker Jr. - Shoulda Zenith (7:01)
1.04 - Barry Walker Jr. - Mud Crack Gallop (2:12)
1.05 - Barry Walker Jr. - Insect Interlude (Circa The Airbase) (3:00)
1.06 - Barry Walker Jr. - Up The Fan, Into The Keyhole (5:16)
1.07 - Barry Walker Jr. - Trinity Payload (6:08)
1.08 - Barry Walker Jr. - Easy, As The Phainopepla (3:07)
1.09 - Barry Walker Jr. - Like A Prisoner (3:52)
Assisted here and there by bassist Scott Derr, drummer Dana Valetta, and others, Walker has synthesized his love for country, New Age, freeform freakouts, and ecstatic music on Zenith. You may hear traces of the laid-back sinuousness of Texas psych-rockers Cold Sun, Fushitsusha's craggy, acid-rock excoriations, and Doug Sahm's sprightly melodic sweetness. You may notice “Insect Interlude” adding new colors to Terry Riley's Rainbow In Curved Air and “Up The Fan, Into The Keyhole” taking Sharrock's Black Woman to Appalachia. If you tilt your head just right, “Shoulda Zenith” and “Trinity Payload” may be the most psychedelic things your pandemic-besieged mind will encounter in 2020. Cosmic country didn't know it needed its own Inventions For Electric Guitar, but now that it's arrived, the Gilded Palace Of Sin is starting to seem like a dilapidated bungalow.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Barry Walker Jr. - Totally Tan (4:15)
1.02 - Barry Walker Jr. - Derr Of The Schwann (Break Of The Dawn) (1:50)
1.03 - Barry Walker Jr. - Shoulda Zenith (7:01)
1.04 - Barry Walker Jr. - Mud Crack Gallop (2:12)
1.05 - Barry Walker Jr. - Insect Interlude (Circa The Airbase) (3:00)
1.06 - Barry Walker Jr. - Up The Fan, Into The Keyhole (5:16)
1.07 - Barry Walker Jr. - Trinity Payload (6:08)
1.08 - Barry Walker Jr. - Easy, As The Phainopepla (3:07)
1.09 - Barry Walker Jr. - Like A Prisoner (3:52)
Jazz | Country | Rock | Ambient | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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