SECOND FAMILY BAND

Second Family Band biography
The Second Family Band are an American free folk collective from Madison, Wisconsin and the successor band to Davenport. Formed in 2007, the group features a rotating cast of nearly thirty players, with many of the original members of Davenport participating along with other seasoned collaborators from Wisconsin's improvised music circuit. While Davenport featured founding member Clay Ruby in each recording session, the Second Family Band perform with a more fluid line-up and at times without Ruby entirely.

The collective's style doesn't stray far from Davenport's highly psychedelic approach, ranging from hypnotic tribal drumming to detuned acid folk jams and cavernous, gritty drones. The music is almost invariably improvised in an outdoor setting, with occasional studio trickery such as field recordings and overdubbing woven into their sound. The Second Family Band are even more prolific than their predecessors, with over fifty releases across a number of formats and labels such as Earjerk Records, Sloow Tapes and Available Recording, and devoting two Bandcamp pages to music distribution, one of which their own (appropriately named) label Gutter Prog Records.

The Second Family Band come highly recommended to fans of the more shambolic and stoned side of krautrock, represented by groups such as Silvester Anfang, YaHoWa 13, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Limbus, Egypt is the Magick # and 6majik9.