Kopecky

Kopecky is an American group based in Nashville, Tennessee, and active since 2007. The name was previously used by the Kopecky Family Band. The group’s releases appear on Kopecky Family Band Music Publishing.

Members and instrumentation

The line-up includes Kelsey Kopecky on vocals, keyboards and bass; Gabe Simon on vocals, guitar and horns; Steven Holmes on guitar and lap steel guitar; David Krohn on drums; Markus Midkiff on cello, guitar and keyboards; and Corey Oxendine on bass, guitar and horns.

Recorded output

The band’s debut album is Kids Raising Kids, which first appears in 2012 and is later reissued by ATO Records. Its second album, Drug for the Modern Age, is released in 2015 through ATO Records.

Style

Kopecky is described as an American indie-rock band, and the group is also associated with progressive rock, progressive metal, instrumental music and fusion. The music is characterised by a range of influences, including later-period King Crimson, prog metal, ethnic elements and more traditional progressive rock. At times it is compared with the approach of Terry Bozzio’s Black Light Syndrome.

Progressive rock band of the same name

The name Kopecky is also used by a separate US progressive rock trio from Racine, Wisconsin: three brothers named Joe, William and Paul. Joe plays guitar and sings, William plays electric bass, keyboards and sitar, and Paul plays drums.