The resulting Deep Fried Grandeur record was split into two 'songs,' fairly arbitrarily for LP purposes. The set was comprised of about Forty minutes of improvisational jamming, with a handful of different movements. The path is a little disorienting, but payoff lies in the pleasant enjoyment of the walk. The pair are a perfect union, as both Walker and KM's style share the same gentle bedlam like ambling through a flowery labyrinth. Walker wasted no time picking Kikagaku Moyo, the Tokyo Psych band making kaleidoscopic waves throughout the Western psych-rock scene. The festival organizers asked Walker, a self-deprecating and quirky NYC via Chicago psych/folk/jazz/whatever guitarists to pick another act for his band to jam with for a set. The most recent of these experimental collaborative releases is Deep Fried Grandeur, by Ryley Walker and Kikagaku Moyo.ĭeep Fried Grandeur was conceived at the 2018 Le Guess Who Festival, a Netherlands based festival celebrating various forms of experimental music. With the growth of Bandcamp and DIY indie labels, we are lucky enough to have high-quality access to many of these performances. Throughout the last few years, it was par for the course to walk into a club to find troupes of semi-famous (if not niche) psych rockers joining forces to create powerful music on the fly. Might be a vinyl reissue of said stunning House In The Tall Grass due any day now-it keeps getting pushed back! So, now, I just have that one Cd, play it all the time, and now one Lp, my mate got me Stone Garden on vinyl for Christmas, thank the Goddess! Have heard their debut, and a few others now too, all super fun stuff, highly recommended highly.One of my many favourite parts of the recent improvisational psych renaissance is the indelible respect and collaboration between the artists. Have since tried to order some vinyl from my local indy to no avail. Finally, near the Canadian Border I stumbled upon The Business, in Ana Cortes, WA-(seemingly a Guru Guru Brain distributor?), who had one Cd-my new fave, their 3rd, House In The Tall Grass, a classic, the first two songs is what they opened up with in Big Sur, simply stunning stuff. I would have bought any and all of their vinyl when I first saw them (and fell in love with them and their music, mission, manna, in Big Sur, this past November 9th, 2021-Ryley Walker opened and joined them for the epic encore) but they had none, nor even cds, a couple shirts and a poster, I got one of those! Looked war and wide in the wild over the next two week road trip thru Pacific Northwest, and nary a record to be found in any store. Might be a vinyl reissue of said stunning House In The Tall Grass due any day now-it keeps getting pushed back! So, now, I just have that one Cd, play it all the time, and now one Lp, my mate got me Stone Garden on vinyl for Christmas, thank the Goddess! Have heard their debut, and a few others now too, all super fun stuff, highly recommended highly.īut, I like you, am so so bummed to have just discovered this amazing Japanese Pysch~Folk Rock band and now they are leaving us with one final album and tour. Click to expand.I would have bought any and all of their vinyl when I first saw them (and fell in love with them and their music, mission, manna, in Big Sur, this past November 9th, 2021-Ryley Walker opened and joined them for the epic encore) but they had none, nor even cds, a couple shirts and a poster, I got one of those! Looked war and wide in the wild over the next two week road trip thru Pacific Northwest, and nary a record to be found in any store.

Ryley walker and kikagaku moyo