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It's out this Friday if you haven't heard about it yet. Suitably bonkers and brilliant 
Wilco drummer/percussionist Glenn Kotche’s* solo label debut, Mobile, comprises eight original compositions, with inspirations ranging from mobile sculpture, composer (and label-mate) Steve Reich, the Ramayana, Wilco drumbeats, the Nonesuch Explorer series, and percussionists Tony Allen and Ed Blackwell. The album features a wide range of instruments, including vibraphone, kalimba, mbira, and drum kit.
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian said of Monkey Chant - a solo drum-kit composition featured on Mobile: ‘The piece sounded as if Kotche ran into the jungle with a tape recorder and simply played it back to the audience. Everything was perfectly mimicked - from looped sounds of crickets to the roars of gorillas produced by Kotche pulling various pieces of metal with string and the tribal drum rhythms produced by Kotche thundering on the toms.’
A graduate of the University of Kentucky’s highly regarded percussion program, Kotche ’s various stints with groups and ensembles have resulted in participation on more than 70 recordings to date. In 2001, he joined the rock band Wilco. Since Kotche joined their lineup, Wilco’s accomplishments include the gold-selling album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the Grammy®-winning A Ghost Is Born, and the recently released double-disc live album, Kicking Television.
Beyond Wilco, Kotche is one-third of experimental rock trio, Loose Fur, along with Jeff Tweedy and post-classical composer/producer Jim O’Rourke; that group’s self-titled album was released in 2003, with a new record slated for 2006. Kotche also is half of the jazz experimental duo On Fillmore with bassist Darin Gray. Their latest recording, Sleeps with Fishes, landed them at the prestigious 2005 Percussion Pan Festival in Brazil. Kotche has released two previous solo works, Introducing and Next.
‘The endlessly inventive Glenn Kotche opened with a selection of compositions from his upcoming solo album, including an interpretation of the Balinese monkey chant - I’m not making this up - that sounded like a cross between ‘The Jungle Book’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘Moby Dick.’ He followed it with a Joao Gilberto cover. We’re not dealing with a run-of-the-mill [drummer] here.’ - Albany Times Union
‘Rock’s finest jazz drummer.’ - Chicago Tribune
Wilco drummer/percussionist Glenn Kotche’s* solo label debut, Mobile, comprises eight original compositions, with inspirations ranging from mobile sculpture, composer (and label-mate) Steve Reich, the Ramayana, Wilco drumbeats, the Nonesuch Explorer series, and percussionists Tony Allen and Ed Blackwell. The album features a wide range of instruments, including vibraphone, kalimba, mbira, and drum kit.
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian said of Monkey Chant - a solo drum-kit composition featured on Mobile: ‘The piece sounded as if Kotche ran into the jungle with a tape recorder and simply played it back to the audience. Everything was perfectly mimicked - from looped sounds of crickets to the roars of gorillas produced by Kotche pulling various pieces of metal with string and the tribal drum rhythms produced by Kotche thundering on the toms.’
A graduate of the University of Kentucky’s highly regarded percussion program, Kotche ’s various stints with groups and ensembles have resulted in participation on more than 70 recordings to date. In 2001, he joined the rock band Wilco. Since Kotche joined their lineup, Wilco’s accomplishments include the gold-selling album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the Grammy®-winning A Ghost Is Born, and the recently released double-disc live album, Kicking Television.
Beyond Wilco, Kotche is one-third of experimental rock trio, Loose Fur, along with Jeff Tweedy and post-classical composer/producer Jim O’Rourke; that group’s self-titled album was released in 2003, with a new record slated for 2006. Kotche also is half of the jazz experimental duo On Fillmore with bassist Darin Gray. Their latest recording, Sleeps with Fishes, landed them at the prestigious 2005 Percussion Pan Festival in Brazil. Kotche has released two previous solo works, Introducing and Next.
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