Cline, Nels Singers / Macroscope
| Album: | Macroscope | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Cline, Nels Singers | Added: | May 2014 | |
| Label: | Cryptogramophone | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2014-05-02 | Pull Date: | 2014-07-04 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Jun 15 | Jun 8 | Jun 1 | May 25 | May 18 | May 11 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 19, 2014: | Rebop
The Wedding Band |
4. | Jun 05, 2014: | Rebop
Companion Piece |
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| 2. | Jun 13, 2014: | No Cover, No Minimum
Red Before Orange |
5. | Jun 04, 2014: | Brownian Motion
Seven Zed Heaven |
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| 3. | Jun 06, 2014: | No Cover, No Minimum
Canales' Cabeza |
6. | May 30, 2014: | No Cover, No Minimum
Hairy Mother |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2014-05-01
Reviewed 2014-05-01
NELS CLINE SINGERS: Macroscope
Cryptogramophone, 2014
POSTMODERN JAZZ – Guitar god Cline (of Wilco and a zillion avant-jazz projects) leads an instrumental group (nope, no singers*) with Bay Area drummer Scott Amendola, bassist Trevor Dunn, and special guests including percussion wizard Cyro Baptista. This is wide-ranging stuff: psychedelic jams, driving electronic thumps, general weirdness, in mostly short tracks that evolve unexpectedly and end quickly.
* actually, Nels sings a little bit. :)
Try any track. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9
1. 5:37 – mellow, moody melody evolves into energetic psychedelic maelstrom
2. 4:26 – churning dark groove, holds steady under tight guitar twists & turns
3. 4:19 – slow guitar & wordless vox vs. fast tropical drums, then a hot jam
4. 4:11 – relaxed, soulful melody with synth heartbeat & electric piano
5. 8:18 – uptempo: drives across a percussion/synth landscape, echoey guitar
6. 4:00 – acoustic guitar & hummed melody / abstract percussion & drone
7. 3:22 – heavy stomp with slow buzzy guitar and electric harp, trippy accents
8. 11:16 – ominous trippy funhouse world, then drone layers build up and up…
9. 7:10 – sci-fi bleeps & bloops; insistent fuzz-thump; rising guitar tension
10. 5:54 – mini bursts and abstracted melodic threads piled haphazardly
[ Fo ] - 1 May 2014
Cryptogramophone, 2014
POSTMODERN JAZZ – Guitar god Cline (of Wilco and a zillion avant-jazz projects) leads an instrumental group (nope, no singers*) with Bay Area drummer Scott Amendola, bassist Trevor Dunn, and special guests including percussion wizard Cyro Baptista. This is wide-ranging stuff: psychedelic jams, driving electronic thumps, general weirdness, in mostly short tracks that evolve unexpectedly and end quickly.
* actually, Nels sings a little bit. :)
Try any track. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9
1. 5:37 – mellow, moody melody evolves into energetic psychedelic maelstrom
2. 4:26 – churning dark groove, holds steady under tight guitar twists & turns
3. 4:19 – slow guitar & wordless vox vs. fast tropical drums, then a hot jam
4. 4:11 – relaxed, soulful melody with synth heartbeat & electric piano
5. 8:18 – uptempo: drives across a percussion/synth landscape, echoey guitar
6. 4:00 – acoustic guitar & hummed melody / abstract percussion & drone
7. 3:22 – heavy stomp with slow buzzy guitar and electric harp, trippy accents
8. 11:16 – ominous trippy funhouse world, then drone layers build up and up…
9. 7:10 – sci-fi bleeps & bloops; insistent fuzz-thump; rising guitar tension
10. 5:54 – mini bursts and abstracted melodic threads piled haphazardly
[ Fo ] - 1 May 2014
Track Listing
| 1. | Companion Piece | 6. | Macroscopic (For Kusama-San) | |||
| 2. | Canales' Cabeza | 7. | Climb Down | |||
| 3. | Respira | 8. | Seven Zed Heaven | |||
| 4. | Red Before Orange | 9. | Hairy Mother | |||
| 5. | The Wedding Band | 10. | Sascha's Book Of Frogs |