JONATHAN KANE - “February”
CD: “FEBRUARYâ€â€"JONATHAN KANE
Rock, Blues $16.98 (list price), Table of the Elements
BASIC STORY: Downtown NYC drumming legend puts out an instrumental opus of rock/blues inventiveness.
SAMPLE: All instrumental.
Review: Jonathan Kane co-founded heavy rockers the Swans and has played with the cream of the NYC avant-rock crop. However, with this, his first solo album, Kane brings back memories of those great sixties rock albums which were soaked in the blues. Sometimes very minimalist, sometimes dizzyingly grand, each extended foray (the shortest piece is just under 7 minutes) sees Kane locking into a solid beat-driven groove and then letting the guitars alternately riff and wail, but without going off into self-indulgent soloing. Kane puts the delta into the middle of present-day NYC, and comes up with a solo album that grabs you and doesn’t let go.
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