The Nels Cline Singers

The Nels Cline Singers: Share the Wealth

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 1, 2021

L'idea era di registrare delle lunghe improvvisazioni per poi selezionare frammenti, operare un copia-incolla di davisiana memoria e dar vita ad una sorta di mosaico/collage psichedelico. L'ascolto del materiale registrato, la percezione della magia sprigionata dalle sessions e della unicità dei brani hanno cambiato le carte in tavola e suggerito di pubblicare integralmente, senza sforbiciate, quello che è diventato Share the Wealth. Ossia--nella versione doppio LP e CD (oltre ottanta minuti) registrato in soli due giorni dalla versione allargata di ...

The Nels Cline Singers: Share The Wealth

by Mark Sullivan
December 3, 2020

Guitarist Nels Cline has led the Nels Cline Singers since 2002. While they have sometimes had guest performers on their recordings, the core band has been a trio of Cline, drummer Scott Amendola and bassist Trevor Dunn (originally Devin Hoff). This album expands the group to a sextet with the addition of saxophonist Skerik, keyboardist Brian Marsella and percussionist Cyro Baptista. The experimental ante was further upped by the fact that they had never before played together in this combination, ...

The Nels Cline Singers: The Giant Pin

by AAJ Staff
October 26, 2004

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 ...

The Nels Cline Singers: The Giant Pin

by John Kelman
October 25, 2004

What is jazz? Improvisation is a big part of it, sure, but improvisation can be found in other genres. Is it an innate sense of swing? Maybe, but there are plenty of artists out there who are considered jazz artists and don't swing at all. Is it improvisation in a context where styles are cross-fused? Closer, but there are artists who stick faithfully to one clearly defined sub-genre and are absolutely pure in their approach. Guitarist Nels Cline and his ...

The Nels Cline Singers: The Giant Pin

by Franz A. Matzner
February 7, 2004

Pushing jazz into territory usually reserved for hardcore, ambient, and dark wave electronica, the Nels Cline Singers' latest release, The Giant Pin , employs a wide array of electronics, musical technique, and compositional audacity to produce a sonically varied, deadly experimental amalgam of genres and styles. Incorporating undulating waves of pure texture, metal-loud drum beats, and distortion-laden guitar--as well as minimalist, floating soundscapes--with traditional jazz vernacular and improvisational structures, the Nels Cline Singers have done what all of jazz's pantheon ...

Enter "The Nels Cline Singers - Macroscope" Giveaway!

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Mack Avenue Records “The Nels Cline Singers - Macroscope“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 28th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Nels Cline at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Mack Avenue Records About Macroscope Taking in the full breadth of guitarist Nels Cline’s sonic sphere of influence has always required ...
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Nels Cline Singers: Winter 2011 Tour Dates

Source: JamBase
January 19, 2011

WILCO LEAD GUITARIST ANNOUNCES WEST COAST DATES Nels Cline Singers are heading out on the road with Yuka C. Honda in support of their 2010 release Initiate. The tour includes stops in Seattle, Portland, Arcata, San Francisco, Felton, LA, and NY. Initiate, in a beautifully designed, six-panel digipak featuring Simon Norfolk's gorgeous photographs of the world's largest machine (the Large Hadron Collider at CERN) is Cline's first double album and, with its second disc culled from a September 2009 performance ...
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The Nels Cline Singers - Initiate (2010)

Source: Something Else!
June 2, 2010

By PicoMultiple personality disorder is considered an affliction among the mentally disabled, but when it comes to the artistry of that unquenchable, multidimensional guitarist Nels Cline, it's the very thing that makes him such an unpredictably compelling musician. Each time I've audited a new record of his, like his celebration of the music of Andrew Hill or another genre-bending effort by his Nels Cline Singers, it's always been an intriguing experience. He uses genres interchangeably as a means ...
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Nels Cline Singers Tour

Source: JamBase
April 10, 2010

HIGH SIERRA, PHILLY, NYC AND WILCO'S OWN FEST ON AGENDA

Nels Cline Singers The Nels Cline Singers first planned tour dates to support their new release, Initiate (arriving April 13). These dates include the band's first ever South American tour, an appearance at the High Sierra Music Festival, a full night at New York City's (le) poisson rouge, a night in Philadelphia at Johnny Brenda's, the Singers' first ever Washington, D.C. date at The Black Cat, and finally, an appearance ...
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Nels Cline Singers Release 4th Album, a Double CD, "Initiate," (Studio CD + Live CD) on Cryptogramophone Records April 13th, 2010

Source: Fully Altered Media
February 10, 2010

The Nels Cline Singers are Nels Cline, Scott Amendola & Devin Hoff Live Guests Include David Witham, Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), John Dieterich (Deerhoof) & Satomi Matsuzaki (Deerhoof)

Artwork Features Photographs of The Large Hadron Collider at CERN (Switzerland), The Largest Machine in the World

Album Produced by David Breskin (Ronald Shannon Jackson, Bill Frisell, John Zorn) Engineered by Ron Saint Germain (Bad Brains, Ornette Coleman, Soundgarden)

The concept of duality has been a defining characteristic of ...
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