Nathan Bowles - Whole & Cloven (2016) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Words Spoken Aloud
02. Chiaroscuro
03. Blank Range / Hog Jank II
04. Moonshine Is the Sunshine
05. Gadarene Fugue
06. I Miss My Dog
07. Burnt Ends Rag


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.

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