#glenn kotche

[dustedmagazine]

Elena Setién — Moonlit Reveries (Thrill Jockey)

Photo by Pablo Axpe

Elena Setién’s soft, eerie songs blend folk and jazz, pop and torch music in shivering nocturnal trance-states that haunt the space they live in. She has not, up to now, been much concerned with rhythm or propulsion — hers are not generally songs that make you want to move — but that all changed when she decided to collaborate with Wilco percussionist Glenn Kotche.

The two met when Kotche toured Spain with Wilco in 2022 and soon began conspiring to splice Kotche’s beats to Setién’s witchy melodies. Kotche’s A Beat a Week drum instruction manual served as a jumping off point. Setién constructed “Surfacing” and “Arrival” atop percussive patterns from the book. The process turned collaborative with Setién sending her ideas off to Kotche, him altering or embellishing them and sending them back. The idea of beats filtered into the other instrumentation as well. Setién’s guitar playing, while quiet, has a sharp rhythmic edge. One track, “Pintado II” grew out of Kotche’s On Fillmore project; it emerges as an intricate mesh of tonal percussion and Setién’s narcotic voice.

These are two very different artists who converge without compromising. The music exists in a neutral area that is distinct from either player’s comfort zone. “Asking” for instance, lets fly a rambunctious spray of percussion, a bit that rattles and clatters and intermittently explodes, rampaging all over the kit in a repeating pattern. It runs under the whole song, an ongoing undercurrent of punch and aggression that transforms Setién’s fluid melody, giving it urgency and fire. A cacophony of mallet play — xylophone, vibraphone, marimba, something like that — cascades in like splinters of multi-colored glass. The tune is sharper, more insistent than it might otherwise have been.

The title track is subtler in the way it employs rhythm, framing a baroque folk fairy tale narrative in ghostly motifs of harpsicord, guitar and glockenspiel. “When all our queens/Left wandering/They walked through fields/Through valleys deep,” croons Setién, in a fay, wondering way, amid glittering sonic architectures. Yet even the tracks where Kotche didn’t participate, especially “Coloured Lizards” have a syncopated swagger, a stop start guitar pattern anchoring Setién’s folk romantic delivery. She sounds a little like Josephine Foster on this one.

The idea of collaboration is to take you out of your own head, to prompt new ideas and approaches, and Moonlight Reveries clearly accomplishes that. This album won’t shock or alienate longtime fans of Setién—it’s not that far from what she was doing in Unfamiliar Minds—but it does extend the idea of what this songwriter is capable of. Bravo for that and for the risk worth taking.

Jennifer Kelly

#elena setién #moonlight reveries #thrill jockey #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #folk #jazz #glenn kotche #percussion

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Loose Fur - The Double Door, Chicago, Illinois, May 14, 2000

Last year saw the release of that ginormous Yankee Hotel Foxtrot boxed set — I haven't made it all the way through to the end, to be honest. But I'm glad it exists!

The three jokesters pictured above (Jim O'Rourke, Glenn Kotche and Jeff Tweedy), of course, were all a part of YHF's making — and here we've got their first live appearance together during the Noise Pop festival way back in the year 2000. Not sure if they were actually called Loose Fur at this juncture, but that is what they would be called eventually. They are definitely already loose! It's an occasionally meandering performance, but the trio generates plenty of sparks, especially towards the end, when Kotche takes "Sally, Free and Easy" into the stratosphere.

Loose Fur would go on to make two LPs (not including O'Rourke's Insignificance, which features Glenn and Jeff prominently) ... and apparently there is a third album that is almost done! “When Jim and Glenn and I get in a room together, Loose Fur records just happen,” Tweedy said not too long ago. “Pure forward momentum and then a sudden realization that we’ve completed a record and it sounds like us, and not very much like anything else.” So ... how about getting in a room together and finishing it up, guys?

#loose fur #jim o'rourke #jeff tweedy #wilco #glenn kotche

[krispyweiss]

Song Review - Wilco - “Evicted”

Promotional materials declare Wilco’s forthcoming LP is a move away from “their country-influenced roots” and back toward “their more familiar progressive and experimental rock territory.”

Which makes “Evicted,” the lead single from Cousin, sound really awkward because, despite some atmospheric flourishes, the track is totally country- (and folk-) leaning as Jeff Tweedy sings:

Am I ever going to see you again/I’m evicted/from your heart/I deserve it

Out Sept. 29, Cousin is produced by Cate Le Bon, who is said to have brought “her unique musical perspective to the band’s trademark sound, and provided them with an inspiring new challenge to push their musical boundaries.” The band is obviously trying to build buzz, but “Evicted” jibes with the promotional material in the same way the not-guilty pleas from rhymes with Fondled Dump jibe with the evidence in his indictments.

And the song isn’t even very exciting or clever.

Grade card: Wilco - “Evicted” - C

8/1/23

#wilco #cousin #evicted #jeff tweedy #nels cline #mikael jorgensen #glenn kotche #john stirratt #pat sansone #Youtube #cate le bon

[spilladabalia]

Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer

#wilco #heavy metal drummer #jeff tweedy #john stirratt #leroy bach #glenn kotche #jay bennett #ken coomer #art rock #country rock #americana #pop #cosmic american music #yankee hotel foxtrot #2001 #Youtube

[waugh-bao]

Glenn Kotche, drummer of Wilco, showing some love for Charlie (2021)

#this is lovely #the rolling stones #charlie watts #old married band #glenn kotche #wilco

[nonesuchrecords]

Wilco stopped by the Criterion Collection's film closet to share some favorite selections, including Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog

Glenn Kotche: “I’m a huge Laurie Anderson fan, basically anything she does, and Nels Cline said it’s an incredible movie.”

Nels Cline: “It’s one of my wife’s favorite movies of all time. We love it.”

#wilco #criterion collection #laurie anderson #heart of a dog #film #soundtrack #glenn kotche #nels cline #nonesuch #nonesuch records #Youtube

[adsmusiconstellations]

Wilco – Cruel Country (2022)

https://wilcoworld.net / Wilco Store (US | EU | AUS)

#wilco #cruel country #2022 #2020s #audio #americana #folk #rock #usa #country rock #jeff tweedy #john stirratt #glenn kotche #nels cline #mikael jorgensen #pat sansone #dbpm records

[bubblesandgutz]

Every Record I Own - Day 780: Loose Fur s/t

Every so often one of those albums comes along that completely alters your musical tastes. For me, Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was one of those records. I already liked a lot of Americana and singer-songwriter stuff, but Yankee Hotel Foxtrot took the homespun sound that I liked and ran it through a modern lens. This sonic update wasn't necessarily a wholesale embrace of the 21st century---their songs battled environmental noise, industrial static, stylistic option paralysis, soul-less technology, and the bombardment of stimuli in the Information Age. It was a record of beautiful songs that were built up and dismantled in the studio, with vestiges of dissonant clutter and ornate embellishments deftly woven in and out of the mix by Jim O'Rourke.

I'd watched the documentary on the making of the album, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, before hearing the actual record. Watching the band navigate the songwriting process, the label pressure, the inner band struggles, Jeff Tweedy's migraines and panic attacks, and the underlying quest to move forward artistically in a marketplace that doesn't value vision all lent an additional layer of mystique to both the album and the band.

There were snippets of other Wilco songs scattered throughout the documentary, and I was obsessed with tracking them down. I bought all the other Wilco albums. I bought bootleg CDs of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot outtakes. But the song I was hunting for, "Not For The Season," was nowhere to be found.

Then in 2003, it showed up on the debut album by Loose Fur under the title "Laminate Cat." Loose Fur was a side project featuring Jeff Tweedy, new Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, and Jim O'Rourke. I came for "Laminated Cat," but I stayed for the strange protracted jams, unusual drum textures, synth forays, blissed out fingerpicked guitar, and off-kilter O'Rourke melodies. This wasn't a Tweedy-centric project---it sounded like three adventurous musicians having fun in the studio.

But it also sounded like the more adventurous parts of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, except instead of treating it as another layer that could be faded in and out of the mix, these exploratory moments were the focus of the songs. A big part of the magic of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot involves what Kotche and O'Rourke brought to the mix, and on Loose Fur we hear what happens when those musicians' skills and ideas are given equal weight to Tweedy's songwriting.

#loosefur #everyrecordiown

[respective]

Glenn Kotche, #pasic2023 Indianapolis Indiana. November 11.

#drums #wilco #innovation #imagination

[screamingforyears]

IN_A_MINUTE: // AN INDIE EXPRESS… // “GEM & I” is the latest single from @anmlcollective’s forthcoming LP titled ‘Isn’t It Now?’ (9/29 @dominorecordco) & it finds the long running outfit of Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist & Panda Bear on a hot streak of late as they once again bring the goods across a 3:40 clip of Tropicali-dripped, harmoniously dipped & psych-tinged ArtPop. // “LOVE SONG” is the second single from @krugspencer’s forthcoming LP titled ‘I Just Drew This Knife’ (10/13 Pronounced Kroog) & it finds the British Colombian “near-unemployed” trio of @e.l.browning (drums/bass/guitar/keys), @jk__rolling (lead guitar) & Spencer Krug (vocals/keys/bass) reveling in the groove across 3+ mins of moodily hazed PsychRock. // @wilco are here w/ “COUSIN,” the second single/title-track from their forthcoming @catelebon produced LP (9/29 dBpm) & it finds the Chicago-based lifers, consisting of Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Mikael Jorgensen, Nels Cline & Patrick Sansone sounding wholly refreshed & ready to resume their journey w/in “familiar progressive & experimental rock territory” across 4+ mins of jaggedly textured & sweetly sung AltRock.

#music #screamingforyears #songs #postpunk #indie #goth #rock #indierock #alternative #aesthetic

[thefinn-ternet]

July 17th

#Finn365

#NeilFinn

Watch "Neil Finn & Glenn Kotche & Son Lux - tribute to David Bowie - Space Oddity @ Cross Linx festival" on YouTube

#finn365 #neil finn #youtube #Glen Kotche #david bowie

[thebowerypresents]

Wilco and Sleater-Kinney— Forest Hills Stadium — August 21, 2021

Not even the rain could prevent coheadliners Wilco and Sleater-Kinney from teaming up onstage and treating the patient Forest Hills Stadium crowd to a special night of music on Friday. Photos courtesy of Adela Loconte | www.adelaloconte.com

#Adela Loconte #Bill Athens #Carrie Brownstein #Corin Tucker #dBpm Records #Fabi Reyna #Forest Hills #Forest Hills Stadium #Galen Clark #Glenn Kotche #Jeff Tweedy #John Stirratt #Live Music #Mikael Jorgensen #Mom + Pop Music #Music #Nels Cline #New York City #Ode to Joy #Pat Sansone #Path of Wellness #Photos #Queens #Sleater-Kinney #Vincent Lirocchi #Wilco

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Wilco - “Cousin”

“Cousin” sounds like the Wil-Cars.

Backing into the early-1980s on the title track from its forthcoming (Sept. 29) LP, Wilco betrays the song’s creators only via Jeff Tweety’s vocals.

I’m nothin’/my cousin, he sings over a minimalist backing track.

And “Cousin” - which follows “Evicted” - is not much more than a backing track made interesting only by Tweedy intoning: Dead awake in waves on the coda.

Grade card: Wilco - “Cousin” - C

9/20/23

#wilco #the cars #jeff tweedy #john stirratt #nels cline #pat sansone #glenn kotche #mikael jorgensen #cousin #Youtube

[spilladabalia]

Wilco - Evicted

#wilco #evicted #jeff tweedy #john stirratt #glenn kotche #nels cline #mikael jorgensen #pat sansone #cosmic american music #cousin #2023 #Youtube

[a-disaster-piece]

Loose Fur // “The Ruling Class,” from Born Again in the USA

#Loose Fur #The Ruling Class #Born Again in the USA #whistle #Wilco #Jeff Tweedy #Glenn Kotche #Jim O'Rourke

[nonesuchrecords]

Wilco’s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky is now available in a limited-edition two-LP, sky-blue vinyl release; you can get it here. The Gold-selling album made year’s best lists from Rolling Stone, Uncut, Mojo, BBC Radio 6 Music, and more. “Near perfect,” said Spin.

Featuring the band that was assembled after the release of 2004’s A ghost is born, Sky Blue Sky was the first studio album from a lineup that has remained the same to today: guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter Jeff Tweedy, bassist John Stirratt, percussionist Glenn Kotche, keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen, multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone, and guitarist Nels Cline.

#wilco #sky blue sky #vinyl #unboxing #jeff tweedy #john stirratt #glenn kotche #mikael jorgensen #pat sanson #nels cline #nonesuch #nonesuch records #Youtube