Nathan Bowles - Whole & Cloven

Nathan Bowles - Whole & ClovenOn 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.

Tracked with the help of Chess/Cadet maestros Gene Barge

and Moses’ dream quickly crumbled

Replicas – The First Recordings & The Pleasure Principle – The First Recordings (Beggars Arkive) To commemorate the 40th anniversary of these two seminal and groundbreaking post-punk electronic pop-rock albums

Victorialand

but it’s definitely not rock’n’roll even by the Cocteaus’ standards

anthropologist

Mountains has been concentrating on the assembly of new systems to create and perform without the use of a computer

I had worked with Charlie McCoy

No one knows what the future holds for young Ryley Walker

He composes and performs otherworldly songs that combine a mastery of circular breathing technique with percussive valve- work and reed vocalisations

and soul singers competing against each other

decency and common sense in a world gone mad