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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Into It
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| 2. | Floored
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| 3. | Divining
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| 4. | You Noticed
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| 5. | Red Line to Greenland
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| 6. | Mercy (Supplication)
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| 7. | Grow Closer
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| 8. | Scissor/Saw
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| 9. | B89 (Inkblot Nebula)
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| 10. | King Queen
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| 11. | Zingiber
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| 12. | Mercy (Procession)
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| 13. | Into It (You Turn)
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Forge
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| 2. | Fly Fly
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| 3. | Raze
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| 4. | And Now the Queen
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| 5. | Blues, Too
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| 6. | Thurston County
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| 7. | Sunken Song
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| 8. | Boogie Woogie Waltz
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Jazz / Modern Creative, Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Guitar Jazz
Scott Amendola Loops, Treatments, Percussion, Electronics
Nels Cline Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Guitar (Electric), Effects
Devin Hoff Contrabass, Guitar (Bass)
Adrian Frutiger Fonts
Ben Levin Management
David Breskin Producer
David Denny Assistant Engineer
Gareth Jiffeau Layout
Jeff Gauthier Executive Producer
Jesse Nichols Assistant Engineer
Joe Gastwirt Mastering
Pete De Boer Assistant Engineer
Ron Saint Germain Mixing, Engineer
Simon Norfolk Photography
Spottswood Erving Design
Initiate is the fourth recording by The Nels Cline Singers and Cline's seventh release as a leader on Cryptogramophone. Initiate documents a remarkable three-day recording session at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley and The Singers' first live concert recording at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco. Throughout the beautifully designed Digipak are six photographs of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, by photographer Simon Norfolk, striking visual representations of the power of Initiate. 1.18 trillion electron volts and counting.
Guitarist Nels Cline has generated a high profile since becoming a member of Wilco, but it’s his solo work that defines him -- he can always be counted upon to thwart expectations. Initiate is the fourth album by the Nels Cline Singers, a power trio with Devin Hoff on contra and electric bass, and Scott Amendola on drums, percussion, and electronics. Initiate is a double-disc recorded by rock producer/engineer Ron Saint Germain. The first disc is a studio recording, the latter was cut live in San Francisco in 2009. Disc one's second track, “Floored,” kicks off with Amendola's drum kit followed by an exploratory fusion funk groove with Cline moving angularly around Hoff’s electric bass (think Tony Williams’ Lifetime). “Divining” is a hallucinatory track that commences acoustically with mbiras and double bass before Cline's acoustic enters. It gradually mutates texturally and dynamically to become an open-ended electric jazz-cum-world music orgy, as wordless vocals and layers of percussion move it toward a far freakier geography -- it's a more dangerous-sounding exploration of terrain that Pat Metheny is familiar with. “Grow Closer” mutates around various Latin tropes and rhythmic patterns occasionally drifting into North African modes. “King Queen” explores the early Santana band’s ability to jam around a theme with killer organ by guest David Witham. Cline responds aggressively and imaginatively to the band's shapeshifting, hypnotic rhythms.
Whereas disc one changes moods and directions with studied perfection, disc two enters dissonant rock and jazz terrain from the jump. “Fly Fly” begins as a swinging jazz tune that quickly evolves into a sick, twisted, guitar trio freakout that nearly lifts off. “Raze” is molten hard rock, with feedback, squall, and scree allowed nearly free rein. “Blues Too” is an homage to Jim Hall that employs his wide harmonic sense while speaking with Cline’s knottier, more complex melodic interests. There’s a beautifully rendered cover of Carla Bley's “And Now the Queen” and a new reading of “Thurston County” (off 2008’s Coward). This live disc is far more satisfying for its wide-ranging sonic expeditions and spiraling architectural drama. The disc closes with a smoking version of Joe Zawinul's “125th Street Congress” -- from Weather Report's underrated Sweetnighter LP. At over 14 minutes, it takes its time developing the tune’s spooky groove, but with electric guitar, acoustic bass, and drum kit, it goes further afield; it transcends harmonic constraints while exploiting its rhythmic barrier to the breaking point. It sounds like Jimi Hendrix fronting WR. Arguably, Initiate is the most fully realized project Cline has devoted himself to yet, and extends the musical frontiers the Singers are capable of not only engaging, but conquering. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Nels Cline
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: 1956 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation
Up to the mid-2000s, guitarist Nels Cline was probably best known for his work in the group Quartet Music (with brother Alex Cline, bassist Eric Von Essen, and violinist Jeff Gauthier) as well as other projects in the jazz, rock, and avant-garde idioms, and for his general involvement in the West Coast's improvisation community. However, since 2004 Cline has been a member of Wilco, which has opened up a much larger audience for the guitarist than is typical for even the most well-known of avant jazzers and creative improvisers.
Born in Los Angeles in 1956, Cline began playing guitar around the age of 12, when his twin brother, Alex, began learning the drums. By the time Cline reached his twenties, he was heavily involved in L.A.'s improvisational community and, in 1978, appeared on his first recording, Openhearted by multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia. He went on to appear on over 70 releases, lead several of his own groups -- including the Nels Cline Trio and the sextet that followed, Destroy All Nels Cline -- and tour internationally with a variety of bands. As a composer, Cline has scored two films in addition to writing much of his own material. He has also produced albums for himself, G.E. Stinson, and Jeff Gauthier, among others.
Bassist Eric Von Essen and Cline met up in the late '70s, began working together and recorded an album of duets called Elegies that was released in 1980 on the Nine Winds label. Von Essen got involved in an orchestra with violinist Gauthier, and it wasn't long before the three formed a group of their own. Alex Cline sat in on their first concert and eventually joined on permanently, resulting in the group Quartet Music, which remained together throughout the 1980s. In addition to his work in Quartet Music during this decade, Cline worked with Liberation Music Orchestra West Coast, was a member of a rock band called Bloc, worked with Julius Hemphill as well as Charlie Haden, and released his first album as leader, Angelica, which included members of Quartet Music, saxophonist Tim Berne, and more.
The first half of the '90s found his new Nels Cline Trio hosting a weekly improv series for four years and recording as many albums. During the 1990s, Cline also worked with Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth), Stephen Perkins (Jane's Addiction), Mike Watt (Minutemen), and the Geraldine Fibbers. A duo recording by Cline and percussionist Gregg Bendian covering John Coltrane's Interstellar Space was released by the Atavistic label in 1999. That same year, the California Music Awards named Cline Outstanding Jazz Artist of 1999. The next year, he released Inkling on Cryptogramophone, beginning a collaborative relationship with Andrea Parkins that would continue for the next several years. Destroy All Nels Cline was next, followed by the formation of the Nels Cline Singers, who released their first album, Instrumentals, in 2002.
In 2004, Cline was asked to join Wilco and has toured and appeared on all subsequent albums by them. He still had time for other projects, however: there have been several one-off collaborations during the ensuing years and two albums by the trio of Cline, Andrea Parkins, and Tom Rainey. In 2004, the Nels Cline Singers released Giant Pin, which Cline followed with an album of Andrew Hill compositions in 2006, the sublime New Monastery. Cryptogramophone subsequently issued two more releases by the Nels Cline Singers, Draw Breath in the summer of 2007 and the CD/DVD package Initiate in 2010. Add all the sideman work he's done since the turn of the century and you've got one extremely busy and versatile guitarist.
--- Joslyn Layne & Sean Westergaard, All Music Guide |
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