Today’s featured video is from the Nels Cline Singers, from a May 2014 performance at Denver’s Dazzle Jazz Club. The show is in support of the group’s new release Macroscope, which will be getting reviewed tomorrow (Monday, 7/14/14), here, on this site.
In the meantime, here’s a taste of what’s to come. The opening is a little screechy and sharp, but that’s part of the deal with this group. But if it’s not your thing, hang tough and stay patient, and eventually they transition into the catchy “Canales’ Cabeza” and then end the show with the gorgeous droning intensity of “Seven Zed Heaven.”
I probably could have filed my review under the Something Different series, if that gives you a sense of what’s what.
In any event, here’s that video.
Your video personnel: Nels Cline (guitar), Scott Amendola (drums), Cyro Baptista (percussion), and Trevor Dunn (bass). They all seem to have some hand in the electronics and effects.
Macroscope isn't so much an album of songs as a series of conceptual drawings of what creative guitar music could evolve into. The music of the Nels Cline Singers seems to disdain form, throwing off sonic currents that swirl and crash and rend and occasionally drift. However, there are…
In a way, it would be inaccurate to view Ben Goldberg's explorations of poetry merely as some sort of phase in the clarinetist's creative evolution. Goldberg's music has always been characterized by its poetic spirit, a quality revealed in the delivery as much as the lyricism. Goldberg is certainly…
The latest work from Bobby Previte presents itself as a collage of imagery, of a dream comprised of many smaller dreams all vaguely detached from one another. But that’s the view from the ground, experiencing the music in the moment. From above, taking everything in its entirety, there is…
Jul 13 2014
Nels Cline Singers, live at Dazzle Jazz Club
Today’s featured video is from the Nels Cline Singers, from a May 2014 performance at Denver’s Dazzle Jazz Club. The show is in support of the group’s new release Macroscope, which will be getting reviewed tomorrow (Monday, 7/14/14), here, on this site.
In the meantime, here’s a taste of what’s to come. The opening is a little screechy and sharp, but that’s part of the deal with this group. But if it’s not your thing, hang tough and stay patient, and eventually they transition into the catchy “Canales’ Cabeza” and then end the show with the gorgeous droning intensity of “Seven Zed Heaven.”
I probably could have filed my review under the Something Different series, if that gives you a sense of what’s what.
In any event, here’s that video.
Your video personnel: Nels Cline (guitar), Scott Amendola (drums), Cyro Baptista (percussion), and Trevor Dunn (bass). They all seem to have some hand in the electronics and effects.
Have a great Sunday!
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