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Jonathan Kane
February
Table Of The Elements TOTE-88
LP
£13.99
Kane was the powerhouse drummer behind Savage Blunder/Speed Trials-era Swans and since then he has held down the drum seat for a whole bunch of power/blues minimalists like Rhys Chatham and LaMonte Young's Forever Bad Blues Band. February takes the endless boogie of LaMonte's Forever Bad Blues Band a few lurches closer to the source with a clutch of long-form blues instrumentals that work seemingly-leaden mechanical rhythms and non-fluid structures into hypnotic cogs in a massively subtle psychedelic system that makes even the slightest flux in rhythmic/melodic detail seem almost tectonic. Besides Kane's own formulations, there's a version of the traditional spiritual “Motherless Child” which matches Träd Gras Och Stenar in terms of ploughing, flat-lined rock and a ferocious restaging of Rhys Chatham's epochal “Guitar Trio”. Recommended.
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