http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61AE3RToAIL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
Initiate is obviously killer but somehow it totally passed me by that the Singers also released a collab album with a sax quartet in March, anyone heard this!?!?
― iiiinfinite jjjjest (some dude), Friday, 7 May 2010 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i need to buy some of this stuff, for real
― http://bit.ly/Bfu2p (ksh), Friday, 7 May 2010 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link
This is exciting. I love Rova. Cline played an intense solo on this project BTW: http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Ascension-Rova-Orkestra/dp/B0007XT7QI
― Sundar, Friday, 7 May 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Nels making some all-too-rare East coast appearances starting tonight:
http://www.nelscline.com/calendar.html
07/06 NYC | Le Poisson RougeThe Nels Cline Singers2 shows: 7pm, 9:30pm
07/07 Philadelphia, PA | Johnny Brenda'sThe Nels Cline Singers8pm
07/08 Washington, DC | Black CatThe Nels Cline Singers8pm
07/13-18 NYC | The Village VanguardJenny Scheinman's Mischief and Mayhem
07/19 NYC | The StoneNels Cline "Stone Seminar #29"Nels speaks about music, guitars and life 7-9pm / $20 / All Ages
08/15 North Adams, MA | Solid Sound FestivalThe Nels Cline Singers
― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm only going to the D.C. show but that Stone Seminar thing sounds awesome
― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
needs to come to Boston imo
― ksh, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
you mean you're not gonna drive a couple hours away for that last date which appears to be a festival headlined by Wilco?
― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
if I had the extra money and more enthusiasm than I currently have ATM for music, I probably totally would
― ksh, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I probably should just go anyway but \(O_O)/
― ksh, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i can empathize. you have to realize how much you're disappointing the whole of ILM by not going to a festival curated by Wilco in your own state, though. xp
― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
yo, it's ksh
Nels says Wilco's starting their own label:
I don't know the name of it. Jeff [Tweedy] was basically not wanting to be on a record label for a while-- he didn't renew his contract with Nonesuch-- so we're striking out on our own, our own label.
― markers, Sunday, 18 July 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nelscline.com/images/dirtybaby-news-cover.jpg
the new Nels album Dirty Baby came out last week and I've only just started listening to it but it seems like it's gonna be a real doozy -- double album with a ton of interesting backing players, the whole backstory is explained on nelscline.com so i won't get into it here.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ukRrxOfTL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
also out in the last month or so is the self-titled debut from Floored By Four, which is Nels, Mike Watt, Dougie Browne and Yuka Honda. it's 4 tracks/40 minutes and is only 4 bucks on Amazon MP3! awesome record, really digging this ensemble. this has really been a banner year for Nels between these albums and Initiate, and I still haven't checked out the album with Rova or some of his other sideman things.
― underrated bobos I have honked (some dude), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
oh and I also meant to mention in that post, I reviewed the SIngers D.C. show over the summer and it was awesome: http://blogs.citypaper.com/noise/index.php/2010/07/six-string-superhero-the-nels-cline-singers-at-the-black-cat-july-8/
― underrated bobos I have honked (some dude), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
FYI, in case you missed this info on the Low thread: Nels is playing on their next album.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=4792941&blogId=539853661
― StanM, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
oh cool. Nels hadn't mentioned it on his site and I don't really follow Low so I had no idea, but I could totally see that being an awesome combination.
― underrated bobos I have honked (some dude), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
― http://bit.ly/Bfu2p (ksh), Friday, May 7, 2010 9:42 AM (5 months ago)
― markers, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
one of my favorite things about having a subscription to eMusic is every few months i scroll down the new releases and see something Nels Cline-related and can be like hey awesome and grab it right away. i didn't even know about Dirty Baby until this morning.
― underrated bobos I have honked (some dude), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Floored By Four is Mike Watt (Minutemen, the Stooges) on bass and vocals, Nels Cline (Wilco) on guitar, Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto) on keyboard, bass, and glockenspiel, and Dougie Bowne on drums.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14936-floored-by-four/
― markers, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
wait, some dude posted about this months ago . . . i guess this is just a "late" review then
― markers, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
and glockenspiel
― buzza, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
the Nels Cline Singers and the Rova Saxophone Quartet just did a few dates together playing cuts from their 2010 collaborative album -- last night's show in Baltimore was awesome. i also just learned, looking over wikipedia entry, that apparently Nels and Yuka Honda got married in November. that's so awesome, congrats to them!
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Initiate may be the best album I've heard in a while! All the best things about his other work I'm familiar with comes together with a little more groove. The live versions of some of the Draw Breath and Coward material are actually more energetic and effetive than the studio versions, especially "Thurston County".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 March 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
we went to see wilco in the tempodrom in berlin last night. there was this guitar player who did some amazing things with his instrument. besides some otherworldly lap-steel playing where the steel guitar almost sounded like a theremin he used lots of reverb and echo effects. at the end of several songs he seemed to shred his guitar, played the strings with a speed which seemed to be faster tha sonic speed, his body moved like he was electrocuted, very weird. he had a four to five minute solo on one song where he melded melody, rhythm and improvisation in a unique way. absolutely gorgeous. as i found out later, the name of the guy is nels cline and he is 55 years old. from far away he looked like less than 40.
― alex in mainhattan, Sunday, 13 November 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
awesome! i always wonder if people are REALLY getting turned onto nels and recognizing his talent if they're exposed to him via wilco, but i guess they are, at least sometimes.
― some dude, Sunday, 13 November 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
I've been listening to Macroscope a lot on Deezer. It might be my aoty so far. It doesn't necessarily break new ground for Cline but everything comes together really well: beautiful solos, psychedelic noise, a noisy garage rock tribute even. I think he might be one of the best living electric players. These reviews seem to sum it up:http://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-nels-cline-singers-macroscope-by-matt-marshall.php#.VCtHyildWe0http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/04/the-nels-cline-singers-macroscope-review.html
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
It might be my aoty so far.
Not a judgment I usually make based on Deezer to be clear. Also, I'm listening to Tanya Tagaq's Animism for the first time now so this statement may def be subject to change.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
I'm very fond of Macroscope.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
The record he did with Medeski, Martin & Wood is even better than ´Macroscope' (which is good).
― EvR, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
That's Woodstock Sessions?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
This Bimhuis gig by the Singers from last month is leaving blisters on my eardrums, fucking great.https://www.mixcloud.com/bimhuis/nels-cline-singers-15-03-2015/
― WilliamC, Thursday, 23 April 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
60th birthday today. For some reason I thought he was a lot younger.
― doctor.quiet.intelligible (WilliamC), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 04:05 (eight years ago) link
yeah he was already in his 40s when he joined the Fibbers!
i haven't heard much from him lately besides the White Out w/ Nels Cline album but that was good and noisy
― i got a really big steen, and they need some really big zings (some dude), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 13:04 (eight years ago) link
Crüt tipped me off to that one the other day with his 2015 albums list -- really love it.
― doctor.quiet.intelligible (WilliamC), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 13:55 (eight years ago) link
can't wait to check this one out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penuNbYSK6E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDHVGzKSOSA
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
I'm about 15 minutes in (it's on Spotify) and it's really beautiful. I listened to a bunch of Cline the other day and started listening to this, but wasn't in the mood for beautiful so set it aside for later.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
that bilt looks beautiful
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
From the DowntownMusicGallery newsletter:
Over the past couple of decades, Nels has led avariety of bands/projects for labels: Enja, Cryptogramophone and MackAvenue. His current band, the Nels Cline Singers, has evolved from recordto record and will be recording a John Zorn Masada Book Three session laterthis year.
I think this has been announced for some time now, but I hope it will come out soon...
― EvR, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Wow, this sounds so gorgeous and lush, and I'm only listening on earbuds so looking forward to hearing it on something fuller.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 8 September 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
I'm usually a bit disin-clined towards this 'un, but his latest 4-tet including Lage is rather good.
― calzino, Friday, 27 April 2018 08:49 (six years ago) link
nels cline has really big hands
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 April 2018 09:01 (six years ago) link
even great wealth can't buy you really big hands in the US, it seems.
― calzino, Friday, 27 April 2018 09:04 (six years ago) link
some are born to big hands, others have big hands thrust upon them, but no-one achieves big hands
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 April 2018 09:10 (six years ago) link
makes u think
This latest Cline 4-tet is decent but, for me the latest Dan Weiss project Starebaby is much more "out there".
― calzino, Friday, 27 April 2018 09:16 (six years ago) link
Marquee Moon feel to this: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/04/the-nels-cline-4-full-session.html
― mahb, Friday, 27 April 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link
We've talked about it a bit on the jazz thread. Predictably, I'm a fan.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 27 April 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
I've seen and enjoyed Nels in a bunch of different settings, but one of my favorites was at this year's Big Ears with Jenny Scheinman's Mischief & Mayhem. It was the two of them plus Todd Sickafoose on bass and Scott Amendola on drums, and they were just rollicking. Four equals all having a good time impressing each other on stage. One reason I love Nels is that he so clearly loves playing, there's always this little-kid glee in what he does.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 27 April 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link
xpYou heard the latest Dan Weiss Sund4r? The band includes Craig Taborn + Matt Mitchell, and it's an excellent lp as well.
― calzino, Friday, 27 April 2018 12:50 (six years ago) link
That's the one with Monder on guitar? It's definitely on my list.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 27 April 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link