Cargo Records

Introducing

"As a member of Wilco, the Jim O'Rourke Band and On Fillmore and frequent soundtrack contributor (most recently co-scoring Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls with Jeff Tweedy), 31 year old native Chicagoan Glenn Kotche has come into prominence as one of the leading high demand percussionists on today's musical horizon as both a stabilizing rhythmic force and a sound explorer with a sense of wide eyed adventurousness and creative zeal. On Introducing, Kotche explores the concept and boundaries of rhythmic patterns in their broadest sense and transforms them into a subtle, deeply melodic aural lozenge that feels so good on the ears you can almost taste, touch, feel and see it. Over the course of four tracks, Kotche effortlessly blends microscopic particles of sound with warm, lush musical arrangements and seamlessly shifting rhythmic variations into a cinematic tour-de-force that brings to mind RZA's Ghost Dog soundtrack, mid-60s Steve Reich and Fennesz's Endless Summer. Derived solely from traditional and salvaged percussion, Introducing is the crowning achievement of 6 years of independent studio recording, electronic tweaking and obsessive mixing, matching and welding of sound patterns and rhythms a la the ingenious back room chemistry of a Smile era Brian Wilson."