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these people and to get intothis realm of all my favoriteartists and singers andmusicians.”

The “place?” Cafe Sin-e, where Jeff  Buckley recorded “Live at Sin-e,” thealbum Koshute designates as the mostinfluential to his budding career andthe reason he went to New York.

Located directly in front of hisapartment in the East Village, a wide-eyed Koshute recalls, the cafe’s newname was Holy Land Market. Hiseyebrows rise. Coincidence?

And he celebrity-spotted too, meetinga number of his personal heroes: JackWhite, Thurston Moore from SonicYouth, Joseph Arthur, James Iha fromthe Smashing Pumpkins, and a numberof Jeff Buckley’s friends who receivedKoshute warmly and raved about hissimilarities to Buckley.

“Dan Koshute is thereincarnation of Hart Crane.”

That’s the first line of Koshute’sbiography in his new album.

“We’re so similar. His poems are likemy music, what I try to do,” he says.Crane, Koshute explains, has a grandstyle of sorts. He manages to synthesize

past, present and future to shape what’sto come for positive means. Every word,every line has significance.

“He uses words like music. It’s not somuch reading with your eyes as it is with

your ears.” Crane saw everything as acycle and brought a striking hope andpositivity to his Depression-era writing.

Koshute was so moved by Crane’s poem“The Bridge,” which uses the BrooklynBridge as a metaphor for connectingwhere we’ve come from to where we’regoing, that he climbed the Brooklyn Bridgehimself to read it and get the full eff ect.

“Finally, everything hit. It was like thecycle had been completed… I was playingevery night, people were coming to myshows, I was selling records… this great

 joyous rapture came over me.”

“I think of life as chapters. At theend of [each] you’ll learn and you’ll

become better.”Koshute’s life as a book is in its opening

chapters. He’s a working man now, livingon couches and out of a suitcase, savingmoney to print his new album - all thewhile, he says, writing and reading asmuch as he can.

The problem with musicians today,according to Koshute, is mediocrity andinsincerity: “There’s so many people thatdon’t hold the album sacred. They don’t

To listen to his music, visitmyspace.com/dankoshute.

hold the art sacred… the live showsacred… I use the human voice as thecenterpiece for this tapestry. The voiceis the key to all of it.“

Koshute has released his first full-

length album, “Kiss Line.”“It’s like B.C./A.D.,” Koshute says.“Aer this rebirth [in] New York, that’s‘Kiss Line.’” He gets the name fromtrailing what he calls a “trajectory of love.” You can pick up a smokin’ copy atCaliban Book Shop.

“This is who I am and I’m gonna giveit out to the world,” he says. “To giveback to the world, that’s all I want todo. To give, to love.”