JONATHAN KANE FULL BAND
(u.s. / Table Of The Elements) ROTHKO
(u.k.)
SUN 22 OCT 2006
BUY TICKETS
LONDON / THE SPITZ
JONATHAN KANE is a Downtown NYC legend -- as co-founder of the no-wave behemoth
Swans and the rhythmic thunder behind the massed-guitar armies of
Rhys Chatham and the rock excursions of
La Monte Young -- and one of the hardest-hitting drummers on the planet. In his own work, Kane summons Swans' concussive wallop, Chatham's dense guitar strata, and the perpetual propulsion of 70s krautrockers Neu, then steers it all head-on into... the blues. In Kane's high-decibel swaggeryou'll hearthe mind-blowing reinvention of both minimalism and the blues:guitar-driven minimalism propelled into the blues, and the blues exploding into guitar-driven harmonic maximalism.
JONATHAN KANE'S FEBRUARY features rock legend ERNIE BROOKS (MODERN LOVERS, RHYS CHATHAM) on bass; DAVID DANIELL, DAVID BICKNELL, JON CRIDER and PAUL DUNCAN on guitars and JONATHAN on drums.
"A massively subtle psychedelic system... Here, even the slightest flux in rhythmic/melodic detail seems almost tectonic ... Ferocious." The Wire
"Paradise between the back porch, the urban jungle and the heavens above ... Rarely does the avant-garde rock this hard." Time Out New York
"February is a drone-inspired record in a big way; massive walls of chugging Chatham/Branca-leaning dissonant single guitar chords lead the way through long, and at times bluesy workouts. ..." WFMU
"ROCKS! Great Southern-fried looped blues rock. Like Steve Reich if all he listened to was Muddy Waters and Zeppelin." Dusted
JONATHAN KANE'S FEBRUARY
(live band)