Widow's First Dawn

On their debut full-length Widow¹s First Dawn, an epic six-part song-cycle about a life buried by its surrounding loss and failure, Rope transcends modern influence and looks back to the staggering explorations of Polish composer Krzysztof Komeda and other European classical maters. Iwanik's whispered, near vocal hissing confessions shape the music¹s cinematic swell equally as the near-smeared scat bellows of guest vocalist and Polish jazz icon Grazyna Auguscik. Kendrick¹s percussion whirlwind meets at the crossroads of William Hooker and Glenn Kotche: traditional trap set infused with a literal kitchen of pots, pans, metal pipes and miniature percussion makers.