Nathan Bowles - Whole & Cloven 3xLP There’s greater space between instruments

There’s greater space between instruments

The album explores themes of nostalgia and hope

Hassell’s trademark FX-soaked trumpet is carefully embellished by a studio ensemble including the master Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos and David Rosenboom on synth

Jason Noble- Guitar

Nathan Bowles - Whole & Cloven 3xLP There’s greater space between instrumentsOn his exquisite third solo album, Nathan Bowles (Steve Gunn, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) again augments his mesmeric clawhammer banjo pieces with piano, percussion, and vocals. Instead of the programmatic place based narratives of its predecessor Nansemond (PoB 16), Whole & Cloven offers a stoic meditation on absence, loss, and fragmentation, populating those experiential gaps the weighty interstices and places in between with stillness and wonder.