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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 2005 and 2006 releases ‘February’, and ‘I Looked At The Sun’, 2009's 'Jet Ear Party' and 2012's 'Live at Issue Project Room' 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 blues man, 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. Hailed as Virtuosic (N.Y. Times), Tireless drumming phenomenon (Village Voice), Magnificent, Mighty (N.Y. Daily News), Volcanic (Rolling Stone) Kane has toured and recorded with Elliott Sharp, Tony Hymas (Jeff Beck, Jack Bruce), Dave Soldier, Jean Francois Pauvros, John King and many others, as well as composing for dance, theater, television and solo and ensemble performance.

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Soldier Kane
Soldier Kane
2016, CD, Album, Mulatta
iKalvi
Music 4 Highways
2015, CD, Album, Not On Label
Philip Glass
Visitors
2013, CD, Orange Mountain Music, ,
Modern/Minimal/Score/Soundtrack
Peg Simone / Wrekmeister Harmonies / Zach Layton & MV Carbon
ISSUE Project Room, 1/8/2010
2010, 4xFile, MP3, VBR, ISSUE Project Room, ,
Drone/Post Rock
Peg Simone
Secrets From The Storm
2010, CD, Album, Radium (3)
Stray From The Path
Make Your Own History
2009
Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All-Stars
Guitar Trio Is My Life!
2008, 3xCD, Album, Radium (3), ,
Experimental/Post Rock
Various
From The Kitchen Archives No.3 / Amplified: New Music Meets Rock, 1981-1986
2006, CD, Album, Comp, Orange Mountain Music, Orange Mountain Music, ,
Alternative Rock/Abstract/Art Rock/Experimental/Avantgarde
Rhys Chatham
A Crimson Grail (For 400 Electric Guitars)
2006, CD, Album, Table Of The Elements, Table Of The Elements, ,
Modern Classical/Avantgarde/Drone/Minimal/Abstract/Experimental
Rhys Chatham
An Angel Moves Too Fast To See (For 100 Electric Guitars, Electric Bass, And Drums)
2006
Elliott Murphy
Never Say Never (The Best Of 1995-2005...And More)
2005, 2x Vinyl, Vinyl, ,
Blues Rock/Folk Rock/Pop Rock
Jacques Berrocal*
Catalogue
2005
Gary Lucas - Gods & Monsters*
Coming Clean
2005, CD, ,
Alternative Rock/Indie Rock
The Soldier String Quartet
Inspect for Damaged Gods
2004, CD, Album, Dig, Mulatta, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Country Blues/Neo-Classical/Post-Modern
Hamell On Trial
Tough Love
2003
Various
Light Of Day - A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen
2003
Rhys Chatham
An Angel Moves Too Fast To See: Selected Works 1971-1989
2002, 3xCD + Box, Comp, Table Of The Elements, Table Of The Elements, ,
Math Rock/Modern Classical/Avantgarde/Symphonic Rock/Art Rock/Experimental
Gary Lucas
The Edge Of Heaven - Plays Mid-Century Chinese Pop
2001, CD, ,
Acoustic/Instrumental/Folk
Gary Lucas
Street Of Lost Brothers
2000, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
Experimental
Gary Lucas
Improve The Shining Hour
2000, CD, ,
Country Blues/Blues Rock/Avantgarde/Illbient
Elliott Murphy
Rainy Season
2000,
Gary Lucas
Busy Being Born
1998, CD, Album, Tzadik
Jean-François Pauvros & Setsuko Chiba
Mango Man Go
1997, CD, Album, Spalax Music
Various
Nova Feedback
1996, CD, Comp, God Mountain, God Mountain, ,
Post Rock/Noise/Punk/Experimental
Dave Soldier*, The Kropotkins
The Kropotkins
1996, CD, Album, Koch Records
Catler Bros.
Crash Landing
1996, CD, Album, Free Note Records
Jean Chaine
Sunk In The Sun
1995, CD, Album, Atonal Records, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
Tony Hymas - Barney Bush
A Sense Of Journey
1995, CD, Comp, Nato
Various
Century XXI: USA 2 - Electric / Acoustic
1994, CD, Comp, New Tone Records, New Tone Records, ,
Post-Modern/Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Experimental/Contemporary
Ernie Brooks
Falling, They Get You
1994, CD, Album, New Rose Records
Tony Hymas / Barney Bush
Left For Dead - Prisoners Of The American Dream
1994
Gary Lucas
Bad Boys Of The Arctic
1994, CD,
La Monte Young, The Forever Bad Blues Band
Just Stompin' (Live At The Kitchen)
1993, 2x CD, ,
Experimental/Avantgarde/Minimal/Drone
Jac Berrocal
Fatal Encounters
1993, CD, ,
Ambient/Experimental/Rock & Roll/Avant-garde Jazz/Spoken Word/Musique Concrète/Leftfield
John King (6) / Electric World
Hot Thumb In A Funky Groove
1992, CD, Album, Enemy Records
Various
Speed Trials
1985, Vinyl, ,
Alternative Rock/Art Rock/Punk/Avantgarde
Various
Break It Up! (New York Art, Rock, Poetry And Noise 1956-2022)
2022, CD, Comp, Mojo Magazine, ,
Art Rock/Poetry
Various
Impala Eardrums: A Radium Sampler
2008, ,
Free Improvisation/Abstract/Art Rock/Experimental/Avantgarde
Various
A Field Guide To Table Of The Elements - Southeastern Edition
2006, 2xCD, Smplr, Table Of The Elements, ,
Rock & Roll/Art Rock/Avantgarde/Experimental
Various
Arrhythmia II
1993, CD, Comp, Charnel Music
Various
They Came, They Played, They Blocked The Driveway
1993, 2xCD, Comp, WFMU,
Various
Jeunes Affiches 93 Vol. 1
1993, CD, Comp, Promo, Cobalt
Jac Berrocal
Fatal Encounters
1993
La Monte Young & The Forever Bad Blues Band
In Augsburg
2xCDr, Unofficial, Otherside Recordings (2)