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Released: Jan 1, 2006
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  • Genre: Country / Folk Rock / Indie

    Location ALBANY, BROOKLYN, New York, US

    Profile Views: 16940

    Last Login: 11/10/2011

    Member Since 12/11/2005

    Website www.knotworkingmusic.net

    Record Label One Mad Son

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Here is a story about knotworking. .. .. Michael Hotter and Edward Gorch first crossed paths in the small upstate town of Freehold, NY when they were teenagers. Hotter's family had moved north from the Bronx, while Gorch's kin had migrated up from Brooklyn. Their friendship was formed around the twisted days and nights that ever rain down upon the families of people living in an upstate town. .. .. The duo parted ways and each made thier share of mistakes in separate lands. Gorch staggered through college in the Hudson Valley, while Hotter roamed the globe as he was serving his country in the Air Force. .. .. Circumstance brought them together again in the Fall of 2000 in the city of Albany, NY. It was in this poison river place of ruined brownstones and divided black snow bank lives that knotworking began. .. .. .. .. .. Raising the Bar (From The Metroland, June '03) .. .. knotworking .. A Garden Below (One Mad Son) .. .. The colorful cover of the new CD by alt-country-folksters knotworking drives the point home: Ed Gorch and company have burst into Technicolor. Knotworking’s first two albums were pensive little curiosities adorned with grainy, gray photos and packed with Gorch’s stirringly poetic sentiments and lo-fi production. The group’s charm lay in rough-hewn, brooding (yet pretty) minimalism; this time around, however, the group have shed their hairshirts and left the sober environs of the bedroom behind. .. .. A Garden Below—which is bolstered by warm, full production (courtesy of Saugerties’ Nevessa studios) and the lengthening shadow of Gorch’s songwriting talent—is a leap forward for an already strong unit. The album features outright rockers (“Blossom”), rousing alt-country beauties (“A Time Ago”), and the kind of acoustic rumination Ed rode into town on a few years back (“When We Were Small”). The folk-rocker “Decided to Walk” is already one of my favorite songs of the year. It’s been fun watching knotworking develop by bounds, and A Garden Below clearly marks them as one of the artistic success stories in our area. .. .. Beyond the professional production and fuller arrangements, a good indicator of the sea change is guitarist Mike Hotter: Behind his benign, hobbitish presence lurks a rock god. Hotter’s spare, intelligent playing was a highlight of the group’s previous effort, Notes Left Out, whose title seemed a tribute to his perfect economy. That said, it’s great to hear him knock off a searing, several-bar solo in the middle of “Blossom” and launch a euphoric coda on “Listening.” Meanwhile, on “Long Step,” Hotter bursts forth with the brand of fuzzed-up twang that would do Bakersfield proud. .. .. A wealth of local talent—including John Brodeur, Dan Winchester and Kamikaze Hearts Matthew Loiacano and Bob Buckley—help knotworking out, along with longtime allies Karen Codd (cello) and Megan Prokorym (violin). Gorch, Hotter and co. deserve a big pat on the back; A Garden Below is a great album. .. .. —Erik Hage

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  • Influences

    bad dreams, the wind, street noise

  • Sounds Like

    upstate, ny

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