EQ Magazine - November 2008 - (Page 38) DRUM HEADS Glen Kotche. WILCO’S GLENN KOTCHE DETAILS HIS HANDMADE DRUM APPROACH by Merrick Angle Like all the best superheroes, Glenn Kotche leads something of a double life. The Chicago-based percussionist has been working with Wilco since 2001—after post-rock guru Jim O’ Rourke introduced him to the band— contributing to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) and A Ghost Is Born. Kotche is also a well-respected composer, recently writing for the likes of the Kronos Quartet and the Bang on a Can All-stars. “I’ve been playing in rock bands since I was 12,” he says, “and I love creating music with other people. I’d really miss that if I wasn’t playing with Wilco, as composing can be a very solitary process.” Kotche’s kit is by no means your usual “rawk” drum set. His conventional Sonor kit is tricked out with orchestra bells, high and low Crotales, an Almgloken, a gong sheet, the occasional congo, and even a fruit basket. Further idiosyncratic modifications include his “hi-hat shaker” and the “Mani tom”—which is named after Mani Neumeier, the influential drummer with jazz-tinged Krautrockers Guru Guru. “I’ll envision a particular sound, and if I can’t find just the fight thing on the market, I set about building my own,” says Kotche. “The hi-hat shaker is essentially some egg shakers placed inside a bracket attached to a hi-hat. It’s a fairly subtle heightening of the sound, so it works best in the studio. The Mani has a plastic tube placed into the vent hole of the Kotche’s drum kit consists of the conventional and truly unconventional. MICHAEL WILSON MICHAEL WILSON tom that I blow into to increase air pressure within the shell, which results in pitch changes. The effect is not unlike a timpani glissando.” When it comes to miking his drums, Kotche doesn’t spend a lot of time trying to get everything to sound clean and pristine. “I’m more concerned with color, timbre, and capturing the idea,” he 38 EQ NOVEMBER 2008 www.eqmag.com http://www.eqmag.com
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