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New Monastery: A View Into The Music Of Andrew Hill

Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2006
Track listing: McNeil Island/Pumpkin; Not Sa No Sa; No Doubt/11/8/Dance With Death; Yokada Yokada/The Rumproller; Dedication; Reconciliation/New Monastery; Compulsion.

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New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill

Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2006
Track listing: McNeil Island/Pumpkin; Not Sa No Sa; No Doubt/11/8/Dance With Death; Yokada Yokada/The Rumproller; Dedication; Reconciliation/New Monastery; Compulsion.

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Nels Cline: New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill

Read "New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill" reviewed by Nic Jones


The eight-word subtitle just about sums it up. Cline and his fellows don't take the often too reverential repertory approach with Hill's music, and instead offer up a programme that's as stimulating for its approach as it is for the ground it covers, and that ground is considerable, taking in as it does compositions recorded by ...

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Nels Cline: New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill

Read "New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill" reviewed by John Kelman


The problem with tribute records is that they are often too literal, and artists mistake reverence for true appreciation. Not so with Nels Cline's New Monastery: A View into the Music of Andrew Hill. If the best way to honor a source is to demonstrate how it's altered one's own musical perspective in a deeply personal ...

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Nels Cline: New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill

Read "New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill" reviewed by Troy Collins


In his liner notes, Nels Cline claims that New Monastery is not a tribute record to iconic pianist Andrew Hill, but merely one view of the rich potential found in his multifaceted compositions. The guitarist assembled an unusual sextet to explore the bittersweet and occasionally turbulent world of Hill's music. Accordionist Andrea Parkins, clarinetist Ben Goldberg ...


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