Jonathan Kane - Jet Ear Party

Gatefold Jacket LP. We dare you to name a more intensely powerful drummer or visionary multi-instrumentalist than Jonathan Kane. Kane has burned a spectacular trail through the experimental rock scene: first as a founding member of No Wave behemoth Swans; then as the percussive thunder behind the minimalist ensembles of La Monte Young and the guitar armies of Rhys Chatham. But underlying it all is Kane’s complete and life-long immersion in – the blues. Armed with a singularly wicked back beat, Kane is the master of the Double Shuffle (Junior Wells dubbed it “The Whorehouse Shuffle”), and he deploys it to devastating effect. Add a dizzying whorl of cascading electric guitars, and you’ve got a rowdy, gut-bucket sound that shakes the meat right off the bone. Jet Ear Party, Jonathan Kane’s second full-length release, is a masterpiece of raw, ass-thumping Americana. With guest appearances from members of his live band, February, Kane barrels into these eight  tracks like a freight train. He lunges at breakneck boogies and tom-driven swamp stomps with equal abandon. In a radical departure, he tones down his mojo long enough to accommodate female vocals for a breathlessly sexy, overtone drenched soul ballad. Kane even pilots hardcore R&B a la Wilson Pickett into the Creedence bayou for a sweat-soaked cover of Sly Stone’s “Thank You Fallettinme Be Mice Elf Agin” — and it’s got a freak-out bagpipe solo that would make The Stooges proud. Seriously, he’s not holding anything back. Forget about The Black Keys; forget about The White Stripes. Merging hip-shake rhythm and lustrous harmonic bliss, Jonathan Kane is single-handedly reinvigorating the blues for the 21st century — in vivid, raging Technicolor. New York Times / “The personal politics of American minimalism have long cried out for a barroom with sawdust on the floor where differences could be settled man to man; this record would be on the jukebox.” Signal to Noise

Tracks : 1. smear it 6:59 2. gripped 6:38 3. super t-bone 6:06 4. blissed out rag 7:58 5. jet ear party 10:09 6. thank you fallettinme be mice elf agin 5:53 7. up in flames 4:07 8. roller coaster 9:06

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