With this show David Grubbs and Ryley Walker celebrate the release of <i>A Tap on the Shoulder</i> (Husky Pants), their first duo album. The two had been taking notes on one another’s playing for some time before they hit the stage together on a couple of blistering occasions immediately pre-pandemic. <i>A Tap on the Shoulder</i> veers from crystalline instrumental compositions to animated alien chatterfests, and from ecstatic extrapolations charging this way and that to, I don’t know, words don’t do the trick. Don’t think for a second that these shorthand descriptions suffice. Electric guitars make electronic music.

David Grubbs has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 200 releases. He was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait and has performed with Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Luc Ferrari, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, the Red Krayola, Royal Trux, and many others. His newest books are Projectile (with Reto Geiser and John Sparagana, Drag City) Good night the pleasure was ours (forthcoming from Duke University Press).

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David Grubbs & Ryley Walker A Tap on the Shoulder Album Release / Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart

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