Paper Hats

Sunday 5:00 PM at the Big Ears Annex

Sam Amidon w/ eric-jon + Paper Hats & Mountains of Moss

Paper Hats is the musical alter ego of Nashville based guitarist William Tyler, long a touring and recording member of such outfits as Lambchop and the Silver Jews, as well as a contributor to albums by artists as diverse as Will Oldham, Candi Staton, Charlie Louvin, and Cortney Tidwell.
With his first release as The Paper Hats, Tyler creates a meditative and expansive piece of work with the seven instrumental tracks on “Deseret Canyon”. Most of the pieces on “Deseret Caynon” are meant to evoke distant landscapes and lost epochs in time.
Tyler is equally influenced by the great acoustic instrumentalists of the past like John Fahey and Davey Graham and the patient and meditative minimalism of Terry Riley and Gavin Bryars. “Hermit Kingdom” is a sound collage piece almost entirely compiled of home made loops of late night radio station static and ambience, while “The Green Cigar Kept Smiling” is a traditional nod to the ragtime style picking of American bluesman Blind Blake. These songs don’t burst alive at first; they open up slowly and plaintively. It is in this sense that Tyler means to evoke arid landscapes and forgotten scripts. This is music for deep listening and long, slow afternoons.