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Koplant No

Koplant No is a forward-thinking ensemble that incorporates elements of jazz, electronic music, and progressive rock. Their influences include Radiohead, Telefon Tel Aviv, Beck, J Dilla, Garbage Factory and Happy Apple. Featuring Brian Lewis Smith on trumpet, keys, and laptop, Drew Morton on basses and synths, Rob Baner on drums and samples, and Joel Vanderheyden on saxophone and vocals, the band has been developing it's unique sound throughout the midwest. Joel Vanderheyden's debut album on the Mize record label, "Complete Life", features Koplant No and was recently chosen as CD of the Month for August 2009 on Jazz 88.3 KCCK

Elker

By Koplant No

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Before We Go; Elegy for Truth; Elker; Knock Knock Ghost; Humpty Trumpty; Airways; Cherry Pie; The Divided.

Koplant No: Elker

by Glenn Astarita
August 13, 2018

This midwestern band cross-pollinates jazz with elements of German krautrock, pulsating funk and streaming ambient synth effects. Hence, the musicians bill themselves as a cinematic electro-jazz entity. The quartet's third album features synth strings, cyclical beats, and the creative fusion of saxophonist Joel Vanderheyden and trumpeter Brian Lewis Smith's spry horns charts and gritty soloing spots. ...

Koplant No

By Koplaint No

Label: Mize Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Baby (With A Monocle); Pitch Dark; Cave Troll; Stubby McGhee's First Second Place Finish; Travelin' Man; Stubby McGhee Is Somewhat Less Than Confrontational; So Far; Cracked Out Cyber Mouse; What A Way To Go; Quarter Til Dawn.

Koplant No

By Koplant No

Label: Mize Music
Released: 2010

Koplant No: Koplant No

by Glenn Astarita
December 28, 2010

Produced in Iowa City, IA., Koplant No may allude to a research project, concentrated in the observation of alien life within a sector on a distant planet. Engineered with depth, space and mood-eliciting soundscapes, the quartet generates an oscillating jazz-fusion electronica schema, treated with melodic choruses, drifting motifs and beguiling storylines. Nothing is sugar-coated from a ...