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The Heavy Set (Album Release) w/ Erik Koskinen Band
The Heavy Set:
The Heavy Set is a Rock quartet, with sounds combining soul, hard rock, blues and alt-country. Founder Jake Ilika started the band in Winona, MN, and relocated to Minneapolis in the fall of 2013 to pursue music full-time, bringing The Heavy Set to a larger audience. Released in March of 2014, their self-titled debut EP represents their well-rounded style, including Americana, Folk and Hard Rock, and earned some praise from local media like The Current, who said "It's timeless, genre-defying, and worth a good long listen."
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"A warm, easy work of Americana that reflects on ideas of love and home, the record showcases Ilika's vocal and lyrical capacity, layered with highly refined blues guitar and wailing organ and steel. The self-titled EP rings out with notes of both classic and contemporary alt-country sensibilities. It's timeless, genre-defying, and worth a good long listen."
-KT Lindemann, Local Current Blogger, 89.3 The Current
"It's a lot of fun to hear a songwriter as good as Ilika challenge a band only to see them give life to his music and then come back for more. If that only forces Ilika to raise his game even higher, then what we have here is the start of something very special."
-Rich Larson, Southern Minnesota Scene Magazine, March 2014
Erik Koskinen:
Erik Koskinen's 'America Theatre' is a translucent eulogy to the genuine. Musically sprouted from the blend of American folk, country, rock-n-roll, and blues, Koskinen and his top-shelf band realize a sound that is distinctive and fresh while familiar and classic. From the tender opener, "First Time in Years" to the defiant "Six Pack of Beer" to "Boomtown," a track that flays the history of the west's settlement from bedrock to fracking with a locomotive's force of barbwire guitars, marching bass and cracking drums, Koskinen moves the listener through a landscape of personal and social struggles, as well as small triumphs, of our nation and its people. Ending on the quiet heartbreaker and breath taker, "Slow Burn," Koskinen's album is a lyrical and musical metaphor of American's theaters of war, of history, of relationships, and of the reflections in the mirror. Knowing but not didactic, Koskinen channels the ways of Whitman and reverently enters the anthology of uniquely crafted wry songs with the likes of Woody Guthrie and Ry Cooder while speaking as plainly as your neighbor. Koskinen joins the ranks of chief musicians and sharp wordsmiths.
Since moving to Minneapolis eight years ago, Koskinen has amassed a following as a musician, songwriter, producer and engineer. With experience stemming from years of traveling north to south and coast to coast, Koskinen taps those adventures and encounters in his second album, the follow-up to the acclaimed 'Keep It to Yourself.'
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LocationEd's (no name) Bar (View)
252 E 3rd St
Winona, MN 55987
United States
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| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
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