Double-bassist Casey Toll (Jake Xerxes Fussell, Mt. Moriah) and drummer Rex McMurry (CAVE) teamed up with Nathan Bowles in 2018 for Plainly Mistaken. At the time, KLOF Mag’s Glenn Kimpton called it Bowles’s finest album yet, a confident recording skilfully crafted and well-balanced and containing some of his most challenging and thought-provoking playing.
On July 26th, the Nathan Bowles Trio return with their new album, Are Possible, on Drag City Records. Described as a spark-throwing, undulating fusion of styles, the trio start the ball rolling with their aptly titled first single, The Ternions (ternion means three things together), described by Drag City as “strummed and picked, though soon moving unexpectedly through passages of power chords, a gamelaning octave-up on the bass neck, and a slow-swarming drone build, with piano and handclaps making it into the mix. Thus transcending their sources without losing an easy sense of time and melody, like all the best trios we know.”
Their diversity of sources moves easily within the arrangements, rendering a far-ranging set of feels, from transcendental to new country funk to good ol’ jazz and the folk-rock, even—all of it drawn out exquisitely when they mixed at Electrical Audio in Chicago with the delicate hands of Cooper Crain upon the faders.
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“Are Possible” Tracklisting
- Dappled
- The Ternions
- Our Air
- Top Button
- Gimme My Shit
- Aims
Nathan Bowles Trio US Tour Dates:
26th June @ Local 506 – Chapel Hill, NC *
27th June @ Eulogy – Asheville, NC *
28th June @ Richmond Music Hall – Richmond, VA *
10th July @ Thirsty Beaver Saloon – Charlotte, NC
11th July @ Pilot Light – Knoxville, TN
12th July@ Soft Junk – Nashville, TN
13th July @ Hungry Brain – Chicago, IL
16th July @ Acoustic Music Works – Pittsburgh, PA
17th July @ Zissimos Bar – Baltimore, MD
*w/ Grails