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

There’s greater space between instruments

never altogether songs or spoken word segments on their own

this private press sees MacFarlane armed with a bank of Roland Synthesizers

LIMITED TO 650 COPIES IN THE UNITED STATES Hugely acclaimed on its release in early 2007

rhythm and non-rhythm

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.