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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', 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. 'February' and 'I Looked At The Sun' made dozens of '05 and '06 Best Of Lists, and his U.S. and European tours with his six piece, four guitar band: 'Jonathan Kane's February', electrified audiences, drew critical raves and gained him another generation of fans. After three decades Jonathan Kane continues to be an unstoppable force on concert stages around the world, his music “As remorseless in it’s momentum as a wheat thresher with a well filled tool box on the gas pedal...white line fever transmuted into sound that'll take the wheel and drive your car across Kansas without ever hitting the shoulder” (Dusted). Defining the shape of blues to come, As (Rolling Stone) sums it up: Kane is, quite simply, "volcanic.