William Tyler

This is a seated show with all seating unreserved William Tyler is a Nashville guitarist and composer. He spent years woodshedding and touring with Nashville groups like Lambchop and Silver Jews before breaking away to focus on his own version of instrumental guitar music. This adopted son of Nashville emerged at the dawn of the last decade with a string of inquisitive albums that paired the measure of his country rearing and classical enthusiasm with his ardor for post-modern experimentation, field recordings and static drifts folded beneath exquisite melodies. Tyler dug Chet Atkins and Gavin Bryars, electroacoustic abstraction and endless boogie. His productive little enclave of instrumental music has increasingly followed such catholic tastes, not only ushering new sounds and textures into the form but also critical new voices and perspectives. And on the brilliant, bracing, and inexorably beautiful Time Indefinite, Tyler's first solo album in five years, he steps at last into the widening gyre he helped create. The guitar serves as a starting point for an album that will make you reconsider not only Tyler but also the possibilities and reach of an entire field. A vortex of noise and harmony, ghosts and dreams, anguish and hope, Time Indefinite is not a great guitar record. It is a stunning record-a masterpiece of our collectively anxious time, really-by a great guitarist. Along the way Tyler released a collab album with Fourtet's Kieran Hebden, the soundtrack to ace US indie film First Cow, a record with the awesome Marisa Anderson and at least a half dozen more albums of exploratory instrumental music. An incredible creative streak exploring what can be done with a mix of the acoustic and the electronic. Dusty, bleepy and beautiful.