[noisereductions]

Listened to it today. Good stuff.

[themawt71]

snare girl sounds great with all of the strings and horns.

[themawt71]

nels cline - snare girl


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J5NYkUr_oM




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

[The Soup Nazi]

AllMusic's review:

Whether playing with his own avant-jazz bands or Wilco, strangeness and invention are two of guitarist Nels Cline's defining characteristics. Since the 1980s, he's longed to cut a large-scale album of "mood music" revolving around the concept of love and romance. He made ever changing lists of tunes from the Great American Songbook, cinema, jazz, pop, and exotica, but thought the project beyond his capability. Poet and producer David Breskin convinced him to pursue it. Convinced, Cline enlisted award-winning arranger/conductor Michael Leonhart and a chamber orchestra of 22 players -- trumpeter Steven Bernstein, guitarist Julian Lage, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, harpist Zeena Parkins, and vibraphonist Kenny Wollesen among them. Blue Note made Lovers a physical reality.

This 18-track, 80-plus-minute set pays homage to iconic muses: Henry Mancini, Gil Evans, Quincy Jones, Gary McFarland, Jimmy Giuffre, Jim Hall, and more. Uncharacteristically, over 13 covers and five originals, there is little anarchy and no guitar freakouts. Tunes fold into and rise out of one another, emerging with lush romanticism and erotic tension. Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Glad to Be Unhappy" commences with lilting clarinets, guitar chord voicings, strings, whispering brushed drums, and muted brass. Cline's "Hairpins and Hatbox" is a warm, lithe setup for the bluesy read of Giuffre's classic "Cry Want." Gabor Szabo's "Lady Gabor" is painted in drones and spacy modal melody. Guitars entwine around sweeping harp, moaning flutes, and rolling tom-toms. "Secret Love" is a direct tribute to Hall; it begins with a slightly dissonant percussive woodwind intro but breaks into airy swing as brass punctuates Cline's six-string break. Disc two is more experimental. Arto Lindsay's "It Only Has to Happen Once" is read as a mutant samba-cum-tango with a Morricone-esque guitar atop chamber strings. Cline juxtaposes noir-ish jazz, modern classical, and cabaret via the disparate themes from the films --"The Night Porter/Max, Mon Amour." A medley of Annette Peacock tunes, "So Hard It Hurts/Touching," offers shifting dynamics, drones, dissonant ambience, and sparse lyricism. Sonic Youth's "Snare Girl" is adorned by hypnotic tom-toms and an Americana-flavored guitar before Cline backmasks it and turns it inside out. The strings join in and it blurs toward psychedelic exotica. "The Search for Cat," from Mancini's Breakfast at Tiffany's score, is a serial cue that didn't make the soundtrack. Cline simultaneously balances swing and wry humor with suspense and theatricality, and even briefly quotes "Moon River." Closer "The Bond" is a tender, romantic ballad erected from a single rockist guitar vamp. Cline's emotionally resonant solo, framed by the backing of the entire orchestra, approaches the transcendent. Due to its extensive length and low-key demeanor, Lovers is demanding. That said, Cline's harmonic, textural, and timbral palettes deliver it as a compellingly engaging and original take on orchestral -- and by intent, conceptual -- jazz. He hears possibilities in the historical past and articulates them with timeless ardor. This may be Cline's quietest recording, but it is one of his finest.

[The Soup Nazi]

From Nels HQ:

This evening begins my week-long residency at The Stone in the East Village, John Zorn's improvisation/composition performance laboratory. I will get to collaborate with many of my most cherished comrades - check out the schedule. Two different shows every night at 8 and 10 until Sunday. All ages, twenty bucks admission (and musicians get 100% of the door). Corner of 2nd St. and Ave C. Come on down!

XO
Nels

So, from The Stone:

THE STONE RESIDENCIES
NELS CLINE
AUG 23-28


8/23 Tuesday (AV)
8 pm
BB&C
Tim Berne (alto sax) Jim Black (drums, other sounds) Nels Cline (electric guitar)

10 pm
BLUE TURF
Jim Campilongo, Nels Cline (electric guitars) Jerome Harris (bass, lap steel) Jim Black (drums)


8/24 Wednesday (SK)
8 pm
Acoustic & improvised guitar duets
Marc Ribot, Nels Cline (guitars)

10 pm
THE RING NEBULA PROJECT
Taylor Ho Bynum (brass instruments) Dave Rempis (sax) Chris Lightcap (bass) Michael TA Thompson (drums) Nels Cline (electric guitar)
This is a relatively new ensemble playing my music relating closely to what is known as “free jazz.”


8/25 Thursday (AI)
8 pm
Acoustic & improvised guitar duets
Julian Lage, Nels Cline (guitars)

10 pm
CLINE/LAGE QUARTET
Julian Lage, Nels Cline (electric guitars) Scott Colley (bass) Tom Rainey (drums)
Old and rarely performed pieces + new themes by NC in this debut set.


8/26 Friday (HW)
8 pm
FIG (ambient) “Purple & Red”
Yuka C Honda (electronics, piano) Nels Cline (electric guitar, etc.)
New works in the so-called “ambient” mode.

10 pm
RADICAL EMPATHY TRIO
Thollem (keyboards) Michael Wimberly (drums) Nels Cline (electric guitar)
First 'live' performance by this improvising trio featured on the Relative Pitch recording released in early 2015.


8/27 Saturday (AV)
8 pm
CRUSHER COLLECTIVE
Dave Rempis (sax) Chris Corsano (drums, etc.) Liberty Ellman (electric guitar) Chris Lightcap (bass) Nels Cline (electronics, lap steel)

10 pm
ALCORN/CORSANO/CLINE
Chris Corsano (sounds) Nels Cline (electric guitar) Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar)


8/28 Sunday (AK)
8 pm
NELS CLINE + WHITE OUT
Lin Culbertson (synthesizer, flute, voice, zither, etc.) Tom Surgal (drums, etc.) Nels Cline (electric guitar)

10 pm
Including Words
Ryland Angel (voice) Zeena Parkins (harp) Jorge Roeder (bass) Nels Cline (electro-acoustic guitar)
New music/directed improvisation utilizing the love letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham as text.

Will somebody please tape it ALL?

[tesla69]

NELS CLINE + WHITE OUT
Lin Culbertson (synthesizer, flute, voice, zither, etc.) Tom Surgal (drums, etc.) Nels Cline (electric guitar)

This was a sweet set, probably the 4th time I've seen this collaboration and as always surprising and refreshing...Loren Connors in the audience...

[hirsute_biped]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

From Nels HQ:



So, from The Stone:



Will somebody please tape it ALL?

Seriously!

[greenlight]

Originally Posted by themawt71

nels cline - snare girl


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J5NYkUr_oM

thanks very much for sharing the link!

I do not like it. sounds funny to me. guitar playing is nice, but as a whole, with all the arrangments...just funny. not my cup of tea.