John Lee Hooker, Steve Reich, Mississippi Fred McDowell, La Monte Young, Muddy Waters,
Rhys Chatham, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Conrad, Little Walter, Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Mel Brooks, Howlin' Wolf, Irving Berlin, Piobaireachd, Duke Ellington, Bo Diddley, Elvin Jones, Otha Turner, Miles Davis, James Cotton, Bert Williams, Albert King, Cole Porter, Chick Webb, The Staples Singers, Al Jackson, Joni Mitchell, Throbbing Gristle, James Brown, Al Jolson, Igor Stravinsky, Aretha Franklin, Hank Williams, Larry Graham, Thelonious Monk, Judy Garland, Jimi Hendrix, The Ramones, Joseph 'Zig' Modeliste, Robert Johnson, to name a few.
"Wedding the brutal severity of Delta country boogie and Seventies German pulse rock – all dead-ahead motion and mounting detail...Epic." Rolling Stone
"Somewhere between Sonic Youth and Steve Reich is the drummer Jonathan Kane. Interested in the crossroads of new-music iconoclasm and experimental rock, he has a drummers sense of steady dynamic development and an unapologetic love of noise. Virtuosic" New York Times
"Intensely propulsive motorik blues, its muscularity and greased relentlessness is never less than exhilarating" Uncut
'Jet Ear Party' PRESS -
"It's quite possible that Jonathan Kane makes THE perfect road music. Kane finds a slinky groove and gets in DEEP, riding it out with a motorik sense of propulsion not unlike Neu! or Harmonia...if they could swing! After all, the blues is perhaps THE original minimalism. John Lee Hooker and Mississippi Fred McDowell often wrote pieces consisting of nothing more than one long, droning chord and a driving, hypnotic riff. Kane is simply expanding the notion of what can be done with an old dog, churning out a furious, souped-up primal stomp that simultaneously beefs up and strips down the blues. Many men have worn out the soles of their snakeskin boots in search of the endless boogie, but Kane has run it down and created a monster."
OTHER MUSIC
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.
hey jk! i've been having a jet ear party!!!! really digging thank you, which is my current choice of skronking foot-stomper! hope you're all well xo lisa
i love warhol museum shows. saw lou reed there. he did a spoken Songs for Drella...and saw The Slits too which was alot of fun. small but intense there! keep me posted! any venue would be great
