Enthusiastic Eunuch & The Workman's Club presents
PETER WALKER
+ Guests To Be Announced
Friday 14th November
The Workman’s Club
Doors 8pm
Tickets €12 available from Peter Walker - Fri, 14/11/2014 @ The Workman's Club
"Peter Walker plays on the ancient protein strings of the genetic code" - Timothy Leary
"Peter Walker was actually a bigger influence on my acoustic playing than John Fahey or Robbie Basho" - Ben Chasny, Six Organs of Admittance
Along with Sandy Bull, John Fahey, and Robbie Basho, Peter Walker is considered one of the premier guitarists of his generation. Now 82 years old, this legendary master raga/psychedelic/folk acoustic guitarist, who was schooled by masters such as Ravi Shankar, and Ali Akbar Khan, has been described by Larry Coryell as, “One of the most original practitioners of contemporary music” and proclaimed by the Beatles’ press agent Derek Taylor as “Perhaps the greatest guitarist in the world.”
His music, celebrated by the late Jack Rose, James Blackshaw, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Thurston Moore, and Greg Davis, all contributed original compositions to the 2006 tribute album, A Raga For Peter Walker. In the mid-‘60s, while musical director to Timothy Leary’s LSD explorations, Walker released the classic Rainy Day Raga LP in 1966, and 1968’s influential Second Poem to Karmela or Gypsies Are Important, both on Vanguard Records. Following that, he disappeared from recording for almost forty years, but never stopped practicing, learning, reaching and returned to the public eye with the release of the release of a lost studio session from 1970, Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms?
Recorded at Mercury Studios in NYC, Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms? is Walker’s manifesto. A solo guitar/vocal album, all one take, no overdubs, that could have been Peter’s classic third album had it been released at the time (Peter had been storing the reels in a converted bread truck for decades). While his previous two records are incredible collaborative efforts - the playing of Bruce Langhorne, Jeremy Steig, and John Blair as important to the final product as Peter's – this album is pureWalker. A requiem to the 1960s, chronicling lovers on the run, anti-war movement adventures, and living off the grid in Mexico, California, Detroit, and NYC.
PETER WALKER
+ Guests To Be Announced
Friday 14th November
The Workman’s Club
Doors 8pm
Tickets €12 available from Peter Walker - Fri, 14/11/2014 @ The Workman's Club
"Peter Walker plays on the ancient protein strings of the genetic code" - Timothy Leary
"Peter Walker was actually a bigger influence on my acoustic playing than John Fahey or Robbie Basho" - Ben Chasny, Six Organs of Admittance
Along with Sandy Bull, John Fahey, and Robbie Basho, Peter Walker is considered one of the premier guitarists of his generation. Now 82 years old, this legendary master raga/psychedelic/folk acoustic guitarist, who was schooled by masters such as Ravi Shankar, and Ali Akbar Khan, has been described by Larry Coryell as, “One of the most original practitioners of contemporary music” and proclaimed by the Beatles’ press agent Derek Taylor as “Perhaps the greatest guitarist in the world.”
His music, celebrated by the late Jack Rose, James Blackshaw, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Thurston Moore, and Greg Davis, all contributed original compositions to the 2006 tribute album, A Raga For Peter Walker. In the mid-‘60s, while musical director to Timothy Leary’s LSD explorations, Walker released the classic Rainy Day Raga LP in 1966, and 1968’s influential Second Poem to Karmela or Gypsies Are Important, both on Vanguard Records. Following that, he disappeared from recording for almost forty years, but never stopped practicing, learning, reaching and returned to the public eye with the release of the release of a lost studio session from 1970, Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms?
Recorded at Mercury Studios in NYC, Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms? is Walker’s manifesto. A solo guitar/vocal album, all one take, no overdubs, that could have been Peter’s classic third album had it been released at the time (Peter had been storing the reels in a converted bread truck for decades). While his previous two records are incredible collaborative efforts - the playing of Bruce Langhorne, Jeremy Steig, and John Blair as important to the final product as Peter's – this album is pureWalker. A requiem to the 1960s, chronicling lovers on the run, anti-war movement adventures, and living off the grid in Mexico, California, Detroit, and NYC.
