Sombre and elegant, Ryan Wayne paints a picture on ‘Lion in the Walls’ from his new album “Functioning Dysfunctionals”. This is the second full-length from the Canadian singer-songwriter following his 2023 debut “Crow Amongst the Sparrows“. The track features Wayne’s voice floating over a melancholy fiddle and subdued drums in this reflection on addiction and loss. Annelise Norohna lends her signature touch with mixing, co-production, backing vocals, and instrumentation, while select vocal sessions were captured by Tim Vesely at Woodshed Studio.
“Functioning Dysfunctionals” is available now on all streaming platforms.
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
