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| Jonathan Kane’s February, Norman Westberg, SUSS Rubulad - Saturday, October 1 - Doors 8:00 A Trifecta of legendary NYC artists together on one bill, performing music from their latest releases, and with their newest bands. Powerhouse drummer Jonathan Kane has played with La Monte Young's Forever Bad Blues Band, Rhys Chatham's 100 Guitars, and co-founded Swans from 1981 -1983. JK will debut Mach V of his Minimalist Trance-Blues band 'February', featuring Peg Simone, Karen Haglof, Jim McHugh, Zach Layton (guitars) and Eric Eble (bass). Norman Westberg joined Swans in 1983 and has provided the band's magisterial guitar ever since. His name resonates through many micro-histories surrounding New York City's music and art scenes, from film works associated with the Cinema Of Transgression, to his participation in bands such as The Heroine Sheiks and Five Dollar Priest. Guitarist Pat Irwin (guitars, harmonium, keyboards), has played with The Raybeats, Lydia Lunch's 8 Eyed Spy, and the B-52's. Pat, together with Bob Holmes (keyboards, harmonica, mandolin), and Jonathan Gregg (pedal steel), are the ambient country trio SUSS whose "expanse of drifting synth pads, glowing pedal steel and string sounds shimmer like cricket songs" (Wire). And... Norman Westberg will join JK's February on Kane's blues-ified version of Rhys Chatham's 'Guitar Trio', marking the first time the two have played together since Kane's last gig with Swans, at the Speed Trials Festival in May 1983. "Jonathan Kane weds the brutal severity of Delta country boogie and Seventies German pulse rock – all dead-ahead motion and mounting detail. Epic." Rolling Stone "Jonathan Kane delivers with high decibel self-assurance, deftly sparking a synaptic link between Neu!-style repetition and the hypnotic electric blues of Junior Kimbrough. The massed overtones of the guitars course against Kane's powerhouse drumming to assemble into a singularly captivating propulsive drone. Kane adds and removes sonic elements with the single-minded endurance of a wide, muddy river carving itself a canyon, and with the unwavering confidence of an already-veteran solo performer secure in his vision." Pitchfork Norman Westberg's guitar playing with Swans has influenced a generation of musicians across genres. I can personally attest to how his particular approaches to that instrument, in creating both harmony and brute force, have challenged and ultimately influenced my own sonic preoccupations. Lawrence English "SUSS's 'Night Suite is a gorgeous set of recordings that are designed as a travelogue of locations they've hit up on tour, and tracks like the aching opener, "Gallup, NM, " and the warm "Kingman, AZ" are some of the most affecting songs the group has yet created." Yard Barker - best of 2021 "SUSS's low pitched drones rumble like radials on asphalt and twanging guitars fire off bolts of rippling electricity. Pedal steel twists and ricochets of flatland buttes, while ebow and dobro conjure whirling vortex energy." What's Good - best of 2021 write your comments about the article :: © 2022 Jazz News :: home page |