Nad Navillus

“I €nd that I’m often drawn to small moments, textures and details that I hear in passing,” says Chicago-based guitarist and singer Dan Sullivan, the brains behind Nad Navillus. “It can be awful Muzak in a Walgreens or salsa coming out of the car next to me at an intersection. I’ll be drawn to the rhythm or the way the bridge modulates after the second chorus.
“I’m often influenced by art, movies, walking around in the city,” he adds. “It’s the same sort of thing - small details will trigger some sort of reaction in me that I will want to explore.”
Sullivan, a sometime member of Songs:Ohia and a member of The Butcher Shop Quartet that painstakingly arranged Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” for rock instrumentation, has put out three albums of his cerebral-but-stirring, €ngerstyle-guitar-driven solo work, with assistance from various accomplices, under the Nad Navillus rubric. The project’s name is actually that of its leader, spelled backwards.