“I told him to take the mixes and have at it,” Walker says. But McEntire was also intimately involved with Course In Fable’s overall creative process. On the seven songs here, he delivers the signature shimmering and pristine sonics he’s become known for over the years.
Seeing his name in an album’s liners is pretty much a trademark of quality.Īnother Windy City exile, McEntire is based on the west coast these days, working out of the Portland, OR studio he’s dubbed Soma West. John McEntire, Course In Fable’s producer/engineer/ mixer, can rightly be called a legend for his work with Tortoise, Stereolab, The Red Krayola, Jim O’Rourke and countless others over a prolific career that now spans more than three decades. Last October, Ryley went straight to one of the primary architects of the Chicago sound to make the LP.
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To put it simply: Course In Fable is Walker’s best record yet, full of active imagination and endless possibilities. Even though he emerged at first in folk- rock troubadour mode, it makes sense that he’s arrived at this point each LP has grown more intricate and assured, his influences distilling into something original and unusual. Walker spent his formative years in Chicago, absorbing those heady sounds and finding ways to make them his own. The masterful Course In Fable, the songwriter’s fifth solo effort, draws from the deep well of that city’s fertile 1990s scene, when bands like Tortoise, The Sea and Cake and Gastr del Sol were reshaping the underground, mixing and matching indie rock, jazz, prog and beyond.
But his latest LP is a Chicago record in spirit. Ryley Walker currently resides in New York City.
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