Are Possible by Nathan Bowles Trio

Are Possible is a spark-throwing, undulating fusion of styles played (mainly) on banjo, upright bass and drums, made possible by the individual perspectives of Nathan, double-bassist Casey Toll (Jake Xerxes Fussell, Mt. Moriah) and drummer Rex McMurry (CAVE) work together in an easy-rolling manner, but one that contains an expansive, ass-shaking confabulation of ideas.

"Bowles has the power to transform the sound of a banjo–and folk music–into something transcendental...something boundless and new" – Pitchfork

"Like Coltrane, Bowles tears open a tiny piece of fabric in the folk music continuum to let in the cosmic debris" – NPR Music

"Fluidly melodic digressions and pungent dissonances generate a forward momentum and haunted atmosphere" – The Wire