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The Nels Cline Singers: Macroscope
by Matt Marshall
With the release of this album by The Nels Cline Singers, Detroit's Mack Avenue Records takes a bold leap into the outer fringes of jazz. Their impressive slate of artists already included the likes of Kenny Garrett, Sean Jones and Christian McBride, who are open to pushing jazz boundaries, but the label had no one who goes as far afield as guitarist Cline. In fact, it's probably best to think of Cline, whether leading the Singers or any of his ...
Continue ReadingNels Cline: Finding Others
by Ted Harms
Ask 10 people when they first heard of guitarist Nels Cline and you'll get 10 different answers. Maybe it was when he joined award-winning, arena-packing, ever-touring rock band Wilco. Or maybe it was stumbling upon a guitar internet forum where nerd boys and girls go over the minutiae of his expansive and varied effect pedals, amps, and guitars. Or it could have been hearing his critically acclaimed The Giant Pin (Cryptogramophone, 2004) with his group, the Nels Cline Singers (even ...
Continue ReadingScarnella / Fluorescent Pigs: Scarnella / Fluorescent Pigs
by AAJ Italy Staff
Anche questo episodio della Phonometak Series si aggira nei territori della sperimentazione. Ottavo capitolo di una collana di splits in vinile che nascono con l'obiettivo di diventare rarità discografiche, è condiviso tra Carla Bozulich e Nels Cline (Scarnella) e Alessandro “Asso" Stefana e Andrea Belfi (Fluorescent Pigs). Il lato A è occupato dalle chitarre (in questo caso eteree) di Nels Cline, e dalla voce lontana di Carla Bozulich, con tre brani che solo all'apparenza sembrano immersi in un inconcludente magma ...
Continue ReadingNels Cline: Dirty Baby
by Mark Corroto
Those not hearing Nels Cline's music lately just aren't listening. Besides gracing rock band Wilco's albums and live shows, he seems to be the hottest jazz/improv guitarist of late. Right on the heels of his two-disc Initiate (Cryptogramophone, 2010)--maybe the jazz record of the year--he drops another double set, Dirty Baby, which is part of an art book, published by Delmonico Books Prestel, that re-contextualizes 66 works by artist Ed Ruscha with music and spoken word. These two CDs have ...
Continue ReadingNels Cline Singers, Richard Crandell and Good For Cows at Johnny Brenda's
by Nick Millevoi
Nels Cline Singers, Richard Crandell, and Good for Cows Ars Nova Workshop at Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia, PAJuly 7, 2010 For one of the closing concerts of the 2009-2010 season, Ars Nova Workshop brought the Nels Cline Singers to Fishtown's Johnny Brenda's. Cline has developed the reputation of being a guitar superhero, and the Singers are the purest manifestation of his work, so it was a rare treat to see the group in Philadelphia for ...
Continue ReadingThe Nels Cline Singers: Initiate
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nels Cline è molto di più che non il chitarrista dei Wilco. La sua lunga avventura musicale è una dimostrazione chiarissima di una classe cristallina e di una grande abilità nel manipolare i generi musicali. Sempre con la stella polare dell'improvvisazione e dell'avanguardia ben salda in mezzo al cielo, a indicare la strada. Ogni sua prova discografica sembra volere alzare l'asticella, fregandosene del fatto che già in precedenza questa era stata posta ben oltre i limiti suggeriti dal senso comune. ...
Continue ReadingNels Cline: Of Singers and Sound
by Rex Butters
Mimi Melnick's Salons feature some of Los Angeles' best improvising musicians in the most intimate of settings--her home, at the top of a hillside overlooking the San Fernando Valley. This afternoon's trio tunes, and tests sound levels. Bass wizard and longtime UCLA professor Roberto Miranda banters with veteran drummer Bert Karl, while the group's lanky guitarist, Nels Cline, studiously tunes a vintage Fender Jazz Master, and a fretless hollow-bodied 11-string that probably exists only in the arsenal of the versatile ...
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