Hawksworth by Matt Espy

Several decades young on the trap kit, Matt Espy makes his solo bow with an album of solo drums, in dialogic flight with birdsong. Restaging a seminal moment from his seismic early days in music (and inner life), Matt references places he’s been between then and now with hallucinatory evocation. Hawksworth is a new organic space where percussive meditations on a life in music create NEW life in music, a comment on the nurture of nature itself.

Born in Dayton Ohio, he spent his youth playing every genre of music he could find-playing in clubs since he was 14 and starting his touring career at 18. He moved to Chicago in 1996 and continued his journey playing rock, avant-garde, jazz, and performance art pieces. Espy played drums in Chicago indie rock bands Atom­bomb­pocketknife and Avagami before finding his home with Dead Rider.