Nathan Bowles - Whole & Cloven 3xLP Bain used to play in

Bain used to play in a band with Dandy Warhols drummer Brent DeBoer

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never altogether songs or spoken word segments on their own

Hassell’s trademark FX-soaked trumpet is carefully embellished by a studio ensemble including the master Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos and David Rosenboom on synth

There’s greater space between instruments

Nathan Bowles - Whole & Cloven 3xLP Bain used to play inOn 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.