catalogue

BOWLES, NATHAN

WHOLE & CLOVEN (PARADISE OF BACHELORS)

BOWLES, NATHAN - WHOLE & CLOVEN 100227
format:
1 CD
release:
02.09.2016
label:
PARADISE OF BACHELORS
item ID:
100227
barcode:
0616892369745
On his exquisite third solo album, Nathan Bowles (Steve Gunn, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) again augments his mesmeric clawhammer banjo pieces with piano, percussion, and vocals.

Instead of the programmatic place-based narratives of its predecessor Nansemond (PoB-16), Whole & Cloven offers a stoic meditation on absence, loss, and fragmentation, populating those experiential gaps - the weighty interstices and places in-between - with stillness and wonder.

Straddling Appalachian string band music and avant-garde composition but beholden to neither idiom, Nathan proves himself heir to deconstructivist tradition-bearers like Henry Flynt and Jack Rose.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. WORDS SPOKEN ALOUD
  • 1.2. CHIAROSCURO
  • 1.3. BLANK RANGE/HOG JANK II
  • 1.4. MOONSHINE IS THE SUNSHINE
  • 1.5. GADARENE FUGUE
  • 1.6. I MISS MY DOG
  • 1.7. BURNT ENDS RAG