“Blistering the stars…Jonathan Kane’s February was a show to remember. Kane and his four guitar assault launched the blues into the stratosphere. This is glorious guitar music where everything riffs, crashes and rolls in synch, the blues stretched to the infinity…it shouldn’t work but by god it does. Many try it and many fail but Jonathan Kane and band deliver BIG time. The Dream Syndicate has got a new forger of harmonic maximalism” Qu Junktions - Bristol, UK
“John Lee Hooker meets La Monte Young in the droning, bluesy incantations of Jonathan Kane, a mainstay in the downtown avant-garde scene, 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
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 as one of the hardest-hitting drummers on the planet. On his critically acclaimed releases ‘February’, and ‘I Looked At The Sun’, 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 his music’s hip shaking high-decible bombast, he’s powering guitar-driven minimalism into the blues, and the blues into guitar-driven harmonic maximalism. Kane has also toured and recorded with a galaxy of modern music luminaries, making over 50 records with artists such as Elliott Sharp, Gary Lucas, John Zorn, Dave Soldier, The Kropotkins, Moe Tucker, Jean-Francois Pauvros, Jac Berrocal, Tony Hymas, Evan Parker, Septile, Transmission and Circus Mort.