Nat Evans tells trickster tales on forthcoming Coyoteways album, premieres opening track “Gradient”
They say nothing is more tedious than other people’s dreams… so the Tiny Mix Tapes News section seems to be the perfect place to share a recent one of mine!
In the dream, I was being pursued by a sleuth of bears who systematically tracked and cornered me into a hidden close. But instead of being killed, the bunch of them stood on hinds, counted out “a-one-and-a-two-and-a-you-know-what-to-do,” and started dancing the Texas two-step. Much like the more typical tales involving trickster coyotes instead of bears, my lack of wisdom got me into this predicament, but my lack of cleverness sure didn’t get me out: I just froze and tumbled to the pine-needled ground in fatal shock.
Moral of the story? …Okay, there kinda is none. But if there was, it’d be kinda like: we can’t manipulate our dreams while sleeping, but we can take steps toward living them while awake. The always forward-thinking, Seattle-based composer Nat Evans has been stalking his for many years now and is about to present his latest ambient drone contemplation, Coyoteways, on March 31 through Mon Amie Records.
Taking a page out of Beat-Gen poet Gary Snyder’s coyote-centric writing, Coyoteways is the culmination of Evans’s experiences with…