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Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Sun January 04, 2015 9:22 pm
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Wilco have toured Australia a few times with Nels (from memory) but have never come through here. I think I'd probably still go just for the chance to watch Nels, though one of his own shows would be a lot more exciting.
Stumbling around on YouTube just now, here's a great song from another Nels release I've yet to pick up - the first Nels Cline Trio LP, Silencer:
Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Mon November 02, 2015 9:25 pm
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Hail hail Nels Cline -- for my money, the very best working Western guitarist.
I've enjoyed pretty much everything I've heard by him, but I think his best work (meaning as a guitar player, the work of which I am most envious) is on Mike Watt's "Contemplating the Engine Room" album. His early stuff with Geraldine Fibbers is fun, too.
I've spent a few evenings with Mr. Cline over the years, and he is always such a pleasure -- friendly, affable, and just genuinely seems to love the life of a musician. I think he'd probably be doing the exact same thing even if no one knew who he was.
Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Mon November 02, 2015 11:58 pm
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tragabigzanda wrote:
I've spent a few evenings with Mr. Cline over the years, and he is always such a pleasure -- friendly, affable, and just genuinely seems to love the life of a musician. I think he'd probably be doing the exact same thing even if no one knew who he was.
You are my new favourite RMer, trag (and I am very envious).
Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Tue November 03, 2015 12:12 am
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Birds in Hell wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
I've spent a few evenings with Mr. Cline over the years, and he is always such a pleasure -- friendly, affable, and just genuinely seems to love the life of a musician. I think he'd probably be doing the exact same thing even if no one knew who he was.
You are my new favourite RMer, trag (and I am very envious).
Ha. I met a lot of my heroes in my music biz days. Most of them were completely underwhelming, but Mr. Cline is a class act.
Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Fri November 06, 2015 12:07 am
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My second-hand copy of the Nels Cline Trio's first album Silencer turned up today.
Funny to open up the cover and see Nels looking relatively baby-faced and ponytailed (I say relatively because he would already have been in his mid 30s by the early 90s when this was released):
Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Sat November 07, 2015 5:33 am
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Kevin Davis wrote:
How's the album? I need a new Nels album to dig into, the only ones I have are "Initiate" and "New Monastery."
I think it's fantastic, well worth picking up. He definitely had the core elements of his musical sensibility down from the very beginning of his career as a bandleader:
Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Wed June 08, 2016 10:05 pm
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New record Lovers, out on 5 August - Nels' first album on Blue Note.
Quote:
I have been dreaming about, planning, and re-working my rather obsessive idea of this record for well over twenty-five years, and it was always going to be called Lovers. It is meant to be as personal in its sound and in its song selection as it is universal in its endeavor to assay or map the parameters of “mood” as it once pertained, and currently pertains, to the peculiar and powerful connection between sound/song and intimacy/romance. In this, I hope Lovers offers something of an update of the “mood music” idea and ideal, while celebrating and challenging our iconic notion of romance.
—NELS CLINE
SIDE ONE
1. Introduction / Diaphanous 4:23 (music by Nels Cline) 2. Glad To Be Unhappy 4:07 (music by Richard Rodgers / lyrics by Lorenz Hart) 3. Beautiful Love 3:58 (music by Wayne King, Victor Young & Egbert Van Alstyne / lyrics by Haven Gillespie) 4. Hairpin & Hatbox 3:32 (music by Nels Cline) 5. Cry, Want 6:53 (music by Jimmy Giuffre)
SIDE TWO
1. Lady Gabor 8:26 (music by Gabor Szabo) 2. The Bed We Made 3:25 (music by Nels Cline) 3. You Noticed 4:01 (music by Nels Cline) 4. Secret Love 4:30 (music by Sammy Fain / lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) 5. I Have Dreamed 2:39 (music by Richard Rodgers / lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
SIDE THREE
1. Why Was I Born? 5:04 (music by Jerome Kern / lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) 2. Invitation 2:26 (music by Bronislaw Kaper / lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) 3. It Only Has To Happen Once 5:45 (music and lyrics by Arto Lindsay & Peter Scherer) 4. The Night Porter / Max, Mon Amour 8:13 (music by Daniele Paris (The Night Porter) / music by Michel Portal (Max, Mon Amour))
SIDE FOUR
1. Snare, Girl 6:35 (music & lyrics by Sonic Youth) 2. So Hard It Hurts / Touching 6:53 (music by Annette Peacock) 3. The Search For Cat 2:33 (music by Henry Mancini) 4. The Bond 5:48 (music by Nels Cline)
NELS CLINE: electric & acoustic guitars, lap steel, effects DEVIN HOFF: contrabass, bass guitar ALEX CLINE: drumset, percussion STEVEN BERNSTEIN: trumpet, slide trumpet, flugelhorn, alto horn TAYLOR HASKINS: trumpet, flugelhorn, valve trombone MICHAEL LEONHART: trumpet, flugelhorn, cymbalon, celeste ALAN FERBER: trombone, bass trombone CHARLES PILLOW: C, alto, & bass flutes, oboe, English horn, alto saxophone, Bb clarinet JD PARRAN: C, alto, & bass flutes, Bb clarinet, alto clarinet, baritone & bass saxophones BEN GOLDBERG: contra-alto clarinet, Bb clarinet DOUGLAS WIESELMAN: bass clarinet, Bb clarinet, tenor saxophone GAVIN TEMPLETON: Bb clarinet, alto saxophone SARA SCHOENBECK: bassoon JULIAN LAGE: acoustic & electric guitars KENNY WOLLESEN: vibraphone, marimba, percussion ZEENA PARKINS: harp YUKA C HONDA: celeste, Juno 60 ANTOINE SILVERMAN: violin JEFF GAUTHIER: violin AMY KIMBALL: viola & violin STEPHANIE GRIFFIN: viola ERIK FRIEDLANDER: cello MAGGIE PARKINS: cello
arranged and conducted by MICHAEL LEONHART produced by DAVID BRESKIN recorded and mixed by RON SAINT GERMAIN album artwork by ANGELA DeCRISTOFARO
Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Wed June 08, 2016 10:25 pm
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Crazy! Thanks for posting Spenno. I love that one track -- it's a bit like Radiohead in that it effectively melds cinematic romance music with jazz melodies.
Seems like quite the departure for him. That cast of players is huge, there are lots of vocalists, some covers (Snare, Girl?!), and this album seems like it has a far more defined vision than any of his others. I'll definitely be listening, though it looks like it might be a bit overwhelming and will probably require a while to digest.
Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Thu June 09, 2016 1:55 am
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Holy crap, I can't believe "Snare Girl" is on this -- I remember the first time I heard that song thinking, "I would really like to hear a jazz musician tackle an instrumental version of this." I think I even posted something like that on the old board. That is one of SY's most melodically rich songs, I can't wait to hear what Nels does with it.
"Glad to Be Unhappy" and "Secret Love" are great standard choices, too.
Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Sat June 11, 2016 7:45 pm
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tragabigzanda wrote:
]That cast of players is huge, there are lots of vocalists, some covers (Snare, Girl?!), and this album seems like it has a far more defined vision than any of his others.
I agree with all of this except to note that I've seen it confirmed that the record is definitely still entirely instrumental (which I'm grateful for), the lyricists are simply listed so as not to short-change their songwriting contribution.
Going to go ahead and predict that there's nothing else being released this year that I will be this excited for.
Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Fri July 22, 2016 12:42 am
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Holy shit, I love everything about that video. The moment at about 3:10 when Nels looks at the camera. That horn player that looks like Stanley Tucci. I have never seen a guy in a skull cap conduct an orchestra. And that arrangement is flat-out Ellingtonian!
Post subject: Re: Thread where we discuss Nels Cline.
Posted: Sat August 06, 2016 7:08 am
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I haven't yet decided whether I'll do something wild and unprecedented and buy the double LP of the new record however, since all the physical copies have been delayed for whatever reason, I went ahead and bought the digital files earlier today.
My wife's going out tonight, I plan on sitting down for a serious listen once the kids are asleep.
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