Glenn Kotche

Prior to working with Wilco, Kotche released a four-track album\n', 'entitled Introducing. In 2003, he released a second solo album titled\n', 'Next, featuring solo drum improvisations using homemade percussion\n', 'installations. A third solo album was released in March 2006 on\n', 'Nonesuch Records, entitled Mobile. This album featured a broad range\n', 'of compositions for percussion.\n', ' Kotche wound up joining Wilco because of Jim O\'Rourke, who originally\n', 'caught him playing a show with Edith Frost. He went on to make\n', 'several records with O\'Rourke including two Loose Fur albums (O’Rourke, Kotche and Jeff Tweedy). Throughout Kotche\'s career with Wilco\n', '(Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the Grammy award-winning A Ghost is Born, The Wilco Book companion CD, Kicking Television: Live in Chicago, Sky Blue Sky, Wilco (The Album), The Whole Love, Star Wars, and Schmilco) and his solo projects, he has treated the drumset as a multiple percussion instrument including home-made instruments, pitched percussion, various found objects such as scrap metal and hubcaps and orchestral instruments.\n', ' Kotche has also collaborated on several other side projects with members of Wilco and others, including an ongoing band\n', 'with Darin Gray called On Fillmore, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, members of the band Nickel Creek, percussionists David Cossin, Tim Barnes and Chris Corsano, and many others. He has appeared on over 70 recordings to date.\n', '