Bruce Hampton), Robby Handley and Roland Fidezius on bass Peter Van Huffel and Greg Sinibaldi on saxophones Jacob Wick on trumpet Rick Lollar (Jimmy Herring Band) on guitar John Neff (Drive-By Truckers) on pedal steel JoJo Glidewell (of Montreal) and Thayer Sarrano on keyboards, and so many more. In effect he assembled a succession of dream bands, until the music spanned a wondrously wide gamut of sounds and moods: a richly melodic procession of guitars, keyboards, strings, reeds, brass and rhythm section, structured yet flexible enough to encompass improvisation in all its freshness.Īlong the way we hear from Marlon Patton (Lonnie Holley), Jason Nazary (Anteloper), Seth Hendershot (Kishi Bashi) and Jamison Ross (Snarky Puppy) on drums Neal Fountain (Col. He distilled a wealth of new material plumbed from introspection, and in the follow-through reunites old friends, high-school chums, current neighbors, ping-pong partners, bandmates from European touring projects, and veterans of previous Kenosha Kid incarnations into a veritable connect-the-dots of Nettles’ career, past and present.
In making October Book Nettles flourishes in both respects. The final result is three LPs of new instrumental music, an epic song cycle woven around two contrasting ideas: “What can I do alone, all by myself?” and “What can I do to reconnect with my community?”
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Spanning from electric jazz, indie rock, country, folk and abstract sound-design to points far beyond, the music of Kenosha Kid reaches another level of expressive, exploratory richness with October Book.įacing deep and long-brewing dilemmas about how to make, share and find fulfillment in music, Nettles turned inward from the shut-down world and cannonballed into an immersive task - to write and demo one new song per day throughout October 2020, 31 songs in all.
For nearly 20 years, Athens, GA-based guitarist and composer Dan Nettles has fronted the ever-changing post-genre collective known as Kenosha Kid, named after an elusive trope from Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity’s Rainbow.
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