The Lagniappe Sessions :: Big Bend

On their 2024 album Last Circle in a Slowdown, Big Bend took concert recordings and reconfigured them, bending that live energy into weird, spacious and intricate constructions. Leader Nathan Phillips does something similar for his project's first Lagniappe Session, turning these covers into loose, free and focused interpretations of the source material. Slowdown bore the light but pervasive imprint of Talk Talk, especially Mark Hollis' tentative yet determined phrasing and breathy, plein air timbre. Phillips' first two Lagniappe selections tend toward a somewhat more traditional folk-rock direction, while his final cut pays homage to one of America's greatest and most eccentric street performers/composers. Big Bend unravels and respools each song, changing nearly everything but holding on to the elusive spirit that gives it life.

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