Previously featured on Folk Radio, Wharfer is the ongoing, independent folk project from Kyle Wall. Taken from his forthcoming seventh album In Due Haze (July 15, 2022), listen to his new track Plainstalking below, a finger-picked folk strewn number with harmonica and colourful percussion from Ryan Jewell.
Kyle Wall on Plainstalking
I liked the idea of this one sort of drifting between the lightness and the violent, like a horror movie set in the sunlight. The chorus doubles down on some of those dualities. The drums by Ryan Jewell, who tours with Ryley Walker and others, give this song a level of breeziness and levity that wouldn’t have otherwise been there. He provided a handful of different percussion parts, which I then mixed and matched, and I’m so psyched about how his parts all turned out.
The album also features long-time collaborators Roy Williams (pedal steel) and Shane O’Hara (drums) and finds Wall dipping his toes into some instrumental numbers incorporating extended drones, Gregorian chants – the works; also more bizarre productions like the bombastic “Bulb.” The album was self-produced and mixed between Brooklyn and Philadelphia over the last 20 months.
Plainstalking is set for independent release on July 15, 2022.