02/27 @ 8:00pm

Jonathan Kane’s February LIVE RECORDING PROJECT

Acclaimed Ensemble to Record First Live Album
@ ISSUE Project Room

Proceeds of Both Performances to Benefit the Suzanne Fiol Memorial Fund

Table of the Elements/Radium Records and ISSUE Project Room present an unprecedented live recording project with Jonathan Kane’s February.  The result of this two day affair will be a first-ever live LP by the band that takes minimalism and blues to the crossroads with “the unadulterated thunder of a parched desert.” (Time Out NY, 2009.) All proceeds from both concerts will benefit the Suzanne Fiol Memorial Fund, which supports the future of experimental arts in honor of ISSUE’s Founder and Artistic Director, Suzanne Fiol.

Before creating February in 2005, drummer Jonathan Kane was a co-founder of the No Wave legends, Swans and instigated their half time, slow rhythmic crawl. He played in LaMonte Young‘s Forever Bad Blues Band, and is the only drummer in Rhys Chatham‘s 100 electric guitar orchestra. He plays with a galaxy of downtown luminaries including Kropotkins, Transmission, and Elliott Sharp. As teenagers in the 70s, Jonathan and his brother Anthony took their freshly inked fake IDs to Chicago where they ended up opening for the likes of Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and James Cotton.

Come dance, trance, and (most importantly) make some NOISE for the band that WFMU describes as “Avant Roadhouse, the music that makes me proud to be human”.

“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

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