Kevin Drumm

Kevin Drumm is an experimental musician based in Chicago, USA. Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players.
Drumm's work expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers. He has collaborated with many artists working in similar fields, including Japanese guitarist Taku Sugimoto, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jim O'Rourke, and many European improvisers such as Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and German trumpeter Axel Dörner. He has also worked with the artist group Simparch, composing a piece for their installation Spec, shown at Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany and at the Renaissance Society in Chicago. Drumm has also worked with saxophonist Ken Vandermark's Territory Band, which brings together American and Eurpoean players who work in both jazz and free improvisation.
Drumm's work draws upon musique concrete, electronic sound, improvisation, heavy metal, and noise music, and has proved difficult to categorize. His solo and collaborative work ranges from challenging improvisations, ambient textures, and blistering walls of sound. Musical influences include Iron Maiden, Ralf Wehowsky, and The New Blockaders.

Avant-garde tabletop guitarist Kevin Drumm was born and raised in 1970 in South Holland, IL, playing in a handful of rock bands before relocating to Chicago in 1991 to work at the city's Board of Trade. He soon began his experiments with prepared guitar, applying objects including magnets, binder clips, chains, a violin bow and even toenail clippers to distort the instrument's sound; in time Drumm befriended a number of members of Chicago's growing improv community, including Jim O'Rourke (with whom he served in Brise-Glace, additionally contributing to Gastr del Sol's Upgrade and Afterlife album and Ken Vandermark. In late 1997 Drumm made his solo debut with a self-titled (Perdition Plastics) and has released superb duo records with Taku Sugimoto (Sonoris), Axel Dörner, Martin Tètreault (both Erstwhile) and Ralf Wehowsky (Selektion).
His chameleon-like presence has been documented on a number of projects, each revealing new facets of his wide-ranging and unique talents on both guitar and electronics. Drumm seamlessly melds the worlds of acoustic and electronic sound, occasionally teetering on the edge of silence, yet always remaining impeccably musical.
Kevin Drumm has recorded and performed with Phill Niblock, Tony Conrad, MIMEO, John Butcher, Thomas Ankersmit and many others.

• 1997 - Kevin Drumm - 320 Kbps
• 1998 - Folie Á Deux [with Taku Sugimoto] - 256 Kbps
• 1998 - Duo [with Taku Sugimoto] - 224 Kbps
• 1999 - Second - 320 Kbps
• 1999 - Dafeldecker / Kurzmann / Fennesz / O'Rourke / Drumm / Siewert - 320 Kbps
• 1999 - Split [with Brent Gutzeit] - 192 Kbps
• 2000 - 6 Standing Desert / Hasn't (1-5) [with Bhob Rainey] - 320 Kbps
• 2000 - Particles and Smears [with Martin Tétreault] - 320 Kbps
• 2000 - Comedy - 320 Kbps
• 2000 - Den [with Taku Sugimoto] - 320 Kbps
• 2001 - Cases [with Ralf Wehowsky] - 320 Kbps
• 2001 - Untitled [with Axel Dörner] - 320 Kbps
• 2001 - Split [with Pita] - 320 Kbps
• 2001 - Untitled - 192 Kbps
• 2002 - I Drink Your Skin [with Aaron Dilloway] - 256 Kbps
• 2002 - Sheer Hellish Miasma - 320 Kbps
• 2002 - Frozen By Blizzard Winds [with Lasse Marhaug] - 256 Kbps
• 2002 - DEG [with Leif Elggren & Mats Gustafsson] - 192 Kbps
• 2003 - Land of Lurches - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Eruption [with Weasel Walter & Fredrick Lonberg-Holm] - 256 Kbps
• 2003 - Out Trios Volume Two [with Jeff Parker & Michael Zerang] - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Dafeldecker / Kurzmann / Drumm / eRikm / dieb13 / Noetinger - 192 Kbps
• 2003 - Mort Aux Vaches [with Dan Burke] - 320 Kbps
• 2004 - Impish Tyrant - 320 Kbps
• 2005 - Split [with 2673] - 320 Kbps
• 2005 - Horror Of Birth - 192 Kbps
• 2006 - Pure [with Jessica Rylan & Joe Colley] - 320 Kbps
• 2007 - All Are Guests in the House of the Lord [with Prurient] - 320 Kbps
• 2007 - Purge - 320 Kbps
• 2007 - Gauntlet [with Daniel Menche] - 320 Kbps
• 2008 - Imperial Distortion - 320 Kbps
• 2008 - Untitled - 320 Kbps
• 2008 - Snow - 130-144 Kbps
• 2009 - Imperial Horizon: Just Lay Down and Forget It - 320 Kbps
• 2009 - Alku Tape - 192 Kbps
• 2009 - Malaise - 320 Kbps
• 2010 - Mud Keeps Lifting Me Higher [with Tom Smith] - 320 Kbps
• 2010 - Reconquer Sleep or Disappear [with Tom Smith] - 320 Kbps
• 2010 - The Obstacles of Romantic Exaggeration - 320 Kbps
• 2010 - Necro Acoustic - 320 Kbps
• 2010 - Untitled [with John Wiese] - 320 Kbps
• 2010 - The Icy Echoer [with Michael Esposito] - 96 Kbps
• 2011 - I Have a Computer - 257-316 Kbps
• 2011 - Don't Ask - 320 Kbps
• 2011 - Ghybbrish - 320 Kbps
• 2011 - Blue Before Blackface [with Tom Smith] - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - The Kitchen - 111-318 Kbps
• 2012 - Electronic Harassment II/III - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Moving - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Twinkle Toes - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Venexia [with Mika Vainio, Axel Dörner & Lucio Capece] - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Blast of Silence - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Dying Air - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - More Answers - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - The Whole House - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Humid Weather - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - The Back Room - 198-278 Kbps
• 2012 - Electronic Harassment - 260-292 Kbps
• 2012 - Crowded - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Relief - 256 Kbps
• 2013 - Tannenbaum - 320 Kbps
• 2013 - Quiet Nights - 320 Kbps
• 2013 - Phantom Jerk - 320 Kbps
• 2013 - Earrach - 320 Kbps
• 2013 - The Invisible Curse [with Jason Lescalleet] - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - The Old Hag - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - The Damned Sort - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Shut In - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Primate - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Shut In-etc - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - The Abyss [with Jason Lescalleet] - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Trouble - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Wrong Intersection - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Live 1995 ​(​Somewhere in Chicago) - 239 Kbps
• 2014 - Live At The Rhiz, Vienna May 2007 - 311 Kbps
• 2014 - Live At The Skate Bowl, Hyde Park 2000 - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Live In Portland​,​Yale Union - Daniel Menche Remix - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - 2014 Everything's Going along as Usual and Then All Shit Breaks Loose. - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - EQUINOX - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Reverse Osmosis - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Syzygial - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Mithering the Skiving Gorm - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Night and Day [with Jason Lescalleet] - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Bolero Muter - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - The Sea Wins - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Voyces - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Crooked Abode - 256 Kbps
• 2015 - 09082001 Gtr/Synth Solo - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Normal [with Choi Joonyong & Hong Chulki] - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Busman's Holiday [with Jason Lescalleet] - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Mercy Cuts I - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - 090613NY - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Redundant Phase - 320 Kbps
• 2016 - Middle of Nothing - 320 Kbps
• 2016 - Spectral Gaunts I - 320 Kbps
• 2016 - Spectral Gaunts II - 320 Kbps
• 2016 - MEPHISTOPHELIAN FACILITATOR - 320 Kbps
• 2016 - Interference - 320 Kbps
• 2016 - January - 320 Kbps
• 2016 - February - 320 Kbps
• 2016 - March - 320 Kbps

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