Introducing Glenn Kotche

Glenn Kotche | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 25, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Locust
• ASIN: B000066C1A
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,655 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cheju

2. Stagger On

3. Wading Pool

4. Mask

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars original review at www.tinymixtapes.com, April 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Introducing Glenn Kotche (Audio CD)

First of all, a warning for potential buyers: If you are a fan of Wilco who is looking for more of the same in buying this release by their new drummer, think twice. On the other hand, if you like all the untraditional sounds and texture of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot AND one of your favorite things about the Loose Fur cd is the fantastic grooves integrated by Kotche, I definitely recommend this cd.

The centerpiece of the album is the appropriately titled "Stagger On", an approximately 22 minute exercise of percussive instrumentation like you've never heard. Kotche combines both acoustic and electronic percussion, and on this piece, help from cellist Chris Tesluk. From a stark beginning, "Stagger On" works its way up to what seem like infinite layers of surprisingly melodic texture, only to be torn down again and rebuilt with amnesia in regards to the previous melody. The other three tracks, "Cheju", "Wading Pool", and "Mask", are relatively low key and at times, ethereal and meditative, but always delectably cerebral.

A final word of warning to seed your mind with curiosity: For the love of everything holy, when you get to 11:34 on "Stagger On", turn it down! For if you, like me, listen to this for the first time at the gym (wearing headphones), people will find you very strange when they see you freak out and jerk the headphones from your ears.