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Nels Cline - Wally Shoup - Chris Corsano: Immolation / Immersion
by AAJ Italy Staff
La chiave di lettura che viene comodo utilizzare per interpretare il maelstrom sonico che ci troviamo di fronte all’ascolto di questo Immolation / Immersion arriva proprio dal titolo. C’è un senso di sacrificio appassionato che porta ad una completa compenetrazione della musica nelle menti e nei corpi dei tre musicisti che annaspano, boccheggiano, si dibattono nelle acque nerastre, livide di elettricità e riescono a sopravvivere proprio grazie al loro dinamismo, alla loro voglia di passare attraverso ogni esperienza, comprese quelle ...
Continue ReadingNels Cline/Wally Shoup/Chris Corsano: Immolation/Immersion
by Eyal Hareuveni
This meeting of three free-minded musicians promises a lot and delivers much more. Los Angeles-based guitarist Nels Cline is one of the most versatile players around--as the new lead guitarist for the alt-country-rock band Wilco; as a collaborator with such diverse improvisers as reedman Vinny Golia, electric bassist Devin Sarno, and Sonic Youth guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo; as a sideman for vocalists such as Rickie Lee Jones and his partner Carla Bozulich; and as a leader of his ...
Continue ReadingTodd Sickafoose Group: Blood Orange
by Nathan Haselby
The young composer and bassist Todd Sickafoose waited a full five years to put out his second release, Blood Orange, following his debut, Dogs Outside (2000). Considering the advances he has made as a composer and arranger, the wait is worth it. Sickafoose still writes pensive mainstream jazz enriched by free improvisation, but his tighter new group makes possible writing which demands no less from individual players and gets much more from the whole.
To be fair, Dogs Outside was ...
Continue ReadingNels Cline/Andrea Parkins/Tom Rainey: Out Trios, Volume 3: Ash & Tabula
by Michael Davis
The idea behind Atavistic's Out Trios series appears to be a sound one. Put three compatible improvisers in a room, turn on the machines, and let 'em rip. Now although these particular artists don't play together frequently, they share skills on the highest level. They listen and respond to each other so quickly it's frightening, and they respond spontaneously with complementary colors. What's more, they cross genres as easily as the rest of us cross the street; ...
Continue ReadingNels Cline and Devin Sarno: Buried on Bunker Hill
by Rex Butters
Nels Cline and Devin Sarno celebrate ten years of creating sonic solar flares with Buried on Bunker Hill , their first collaborative sound sculpture to use multi tracks rather than live performance. The fuller sound creates roaring electric soundscapes with cascading loops and rumble, an orchestra of ohms. Their drones tend more toward majestic than tedious, and they show themselves adept at generating momentum within seemingly static musical frameworks.
“Swinging London" journeys through ambient to intense, a hollow roar the ...
Continue ReadingThe Nels Cline Singers: The Giant Pin
by Alex K. Fong
Los Angeles guitarist Nels Cline surprised some of his longtime fans when he joined the rock band Wilco earlier this year. But he has always been involved with rock and roll in some form throughout his career. He's played with Mike Watt of the Minutemen and various members of Sonic Youth. His own solo career has been defined by his attempt to bridge the gap between rock and improvised music.
Cline's second album with his trio, the Nels Cline Singers, ...
Continue ReadingThe Nels Cline Singers: The Giant Pin
by AAJ Staff
Whatever your opinion of guitarist Nels Cline, his pointedly iconoclastic style leaves little room for argument. That's especially true with the Nels Cline Singers, now on their second release after the appropriately-named and like-minded Instrumentals (Cryptogramophone, 2002). Clearly literate with the improvised music tradition, Cline demands more. Pay attention, listen closely, and learn: in the fractured zone between punk, progressive rock, jazz, electronica, and neo-tribal futurism lie all sorts of loose ends just waiting to be tied together in unpredictable ...
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