Unchained

Unchained is the long-standing guitar-based project of Nate Davis, originally from Providence (USA) and based in France for over a decade. Rooted in the polymorphous experimentalism of the 2000s East Coast underground, Unchained moves between intimate, home-recorded jazz, shimmering pastoral jangle, grainy synthetic rhythms, and humid ambient blur. In his two most recent LPs—Gabbeh (2024, A Colourful Storm) and Frontalier (2025, Stern Records)—Davis strives to describe a new path for outsider jazz instrumentalism that remains committed to harmonic and rhythmic form while placing greater emphasis on sonic texture through experimental recording and mixing techniques.