Jonathan Kane - The Little Drummer Boy
If any Christmas song allows for a percussive-lengthened exploration, the marching beat of “Little Drummer Boy” certainly would be the first to stand at attention. Former Swans drummer and downtown New York avant-garde musical player, Jonathan Kane, handles all the duties on his 15-minute version of this single holiday standard. Recorded for the ultra-experimental (or pretentiously high brow, depending on your artistic discern) recording label, Table Of The Elements, you’d expect a thunderous, unapologetic cutting edge performance. Instead, he slow-burns out a Mississippi electric blues instrumental scorcher. Outfitted with a Civil War marching drum cadence, a thick, reverberating bass line, and squalling guitar riffs, you may wonder what Southern juke joint this was recorded in. Intensity starts to build at the eight minute mark, with the muscling of the drums and a few wilder slashes on the electric axe, but everything is reigned in by its 12-bar finish.
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