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About Me

Jonathan Kane is a Downtown NYC legend -- as co-founder of the no-wave behemoth Swans, and the rhythmic thunder behind the massed-guitar armies of Rhys Chatham and the rock excursions of La Monte Young -- and one of the hardest-hitting drummers on the planet. With his solo work, Kane summons Swans' concussive wallop, Chatham's dense guitar strata, and the perpetual propulsion of 70s krautrockers Neu, then steers it all head-on into... the blues. Make no mistake about it: Kane is a bluesman, and beneath the high-decible bombast, he's powering guitar-driven minimalism into the blues, and the blues into guitar-driven harmonic maximalism. So roll with Jonathan Kane down his Highway 61 of the mind -- it's the shape of blues to come.WATCH JONATHAN KANE'S FEBRUARY LIVE AT WFMU STUDIO!!.. width="425" height="350" ..

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Member Since: 1/15/2006
Band Website: tableoftheelements.com
Band Members: JONATHAN KANE'S FEBRUARY
(live band)
Guitar:
Jon Crider ( Clara Venus )
Guitar: David Bicknell ( Clara Venus )
Guitar: Peg Simone
Bass: Adam Wills ( Bear in Heaven , Rhys Chatham Essentialist)
Guitar:
Igor Cubrilovic
Guitar: David Daniell ( San Agustin , Rhys Chatham Essentialist)
Guitar: Byron Westbrook (Corridors, Rhys Chatham Essentialist)
Guitar: Paul Duncan
Bass: Ernie Brooks
Drums: Jonathan Kane
Influences: John Lee Hooker, Rhys Chatham, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Steve Reich, Muddy Waters, La Monte Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Walter, Tony Conrad, Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Mel Brooks, Howlin' Wolf, Irving Berlin, Piobaireachd, Bo Diddley, Elvin Jones, Otha Turner, Miles Davis, Albert King, Cole Porter, Chick Webb, The Staples Singers, Al Jackson, Joni Mitchell, James Brown, Al Jolson, Igor Stravinsky, Hank Williams, Thelonious Monk, Judy Garland, Jimi Hendrix, The Ramones, Joseph 'Zig' Modeliste, Robert Johnson, to name a few.
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Record Label: Table of the Elements
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NEW RELEASE December 2007 "The Little Drummer Boy"

JONATHAN KANE The Little Drummer Boy Do Jonathan Kane's fat-bottomed grooves take your breath away, make you lose your mind? Well, it...
Posted by Jonathan Kane on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:36:00 PST

Praise for Jonathan Kane's debut CD, "February":

"Paradise between the back porch, the urban jungle and the heavens above ... The album's down-home grooves shine with an orchestral, massed-guitar luster that's often associated with Glenn Branca and ...
Posted by Jonathan Kane on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 06:09:00 PST