Glenn Kotche: Adventureland.

Album · 2014 · 14 Songs. Glenn Kotche, Kronos Quartet & Eighth Blackbird.

Percussionist, composer and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche embarks on his most kaleidoscopic ride yet, with Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird and Gamelan Galak.

Adventureland by Glenn Kotche, released 25 March 2014 1. Anomaly, mvt. 1 2. The Haunted Dance 3. 2 4. The Traveling Turtle 5. The Haunted Hive 6. 3 7. The Haunted Furnace 8. 4 9. 5 1. His latest work is the multi-hued Adventureland, a collaborative effort and his first since 2006’s Mobile. It all started when Kotche caught a Kronos Quartet concert in 2006 and set out to write a string quartet; eventually, the scope of the project morphed into a kaleidoscopic amusement ride of strings, gamelan, electronics and Kotche’s vast arsenal of percussion instruments. For the string quartet, I was banging my head against the wall for ideas, Kotche remembers, and the solution didn’t really come to me until I sat down at the drums.

Glenn Kotche is best known as the drummer of Wilco ., the rebel whose junk metal thwacks and snaking marimba lines on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’s I Am Trying to Break Your Heart heralded the beginning of the band’s most creatively fertile period. He also once played the Four Tops on faucets in a Delta commercial. But even before his tenure with Tweedy in Wilco and Loose Fur, Kotche wrote and performed contemporary classical music

Glenn Kotche – Adventureland. on March 31, 2014, 12:00am. This experimental approach has been a longstanding factor in his music, from the deconstruction of traditional rock drumming on Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to the Steve Reich homages in his 2006 solo album, Mobile. A percussionist first and foremost, he continues to explore rhythm and space on Adventureland, his fourth solo album and first in nearly eight years. Adventureland consists of two main pieces: Anomaly, as well as the more experimental and adventurous The Haunted Suite

Glenn Kotche /ˈkoʊtʃi/ (born December 31, 1970 in Roselle, Illinois, United States) is an American drummer and composer, best known for his involvement in the band Wilco. He was named the 40th greatest drummer of all time by Gigwise in 2008. Prior to working with Wilco, Kotche released a four-track album entitled Introducing.

Percussionist, composer and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche embarks on his most kaleidoscopic ride yet, with special guests Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird and Gamelan Galak Tika (directed by Evan Ziporyn). A sprawling carnival of strings, gamelan, electronics and Kotche's vast arsenal of percussion instruments, Adventureland is his fourth studio album, and his first with Cantaloupe Music, founded in 2001 by the creators of the Bang on a Can organization. Most of the people who've seen me play don't know me as a composer,' Kotche says

This multihued album took form after Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche was inspired to write a string quartet, which eventually morphed into a kaleidoscopic amusement ride of strings, gamelan, electronics and Kotche’s vast arsenal of percussion instruments. Adventureland, which maps an intense and fertile period of growth in Kotche’s artistic vision, contains the suite Anomaly featuring the Kronos Quartet, intertwined with the chilling, at times even macabre five-part piece The Haunted for two pianos vs. percussion.