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themawt71 06.08.2016 10:09 AM
nels cline covering snare girl with orchestra
 
nels cline has a new record coming out called lovers. it's a jazz (?) orchestra record with covers and originals. he covers snare girl. and it's on blue note.

i'm excited.

noisereductions 06.08.2016 10:43 AM
wow. Wow. This is very exciting!

tesla69 06.08.2016 02:04 PM
That really is an orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CNY3-gkw74

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 06.08.2016 02:22 PM
More info:

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PREORDER NOW: Lovers Store | iTunes + Google Play | Amazon

Nels Cline's Lovers album is out on August 5th. It's his debut on Blue Note Records and is available now for preorder on CD, vinyl and digital download. A double-album featuring originals, standards and covers, Lovers offers an update on the 'mood music' idea and ideal, challenging our iconic notion of romance along the way. It was recorded with an ensemble of 23, and conducted and arranged by Michael Leonhart.
You can download "Beautiful Love" (a waltz originally composed by Wayne King, Victor Young & Egbert Van Alstyne) instantly with the preorder.

The live debut of Lovers will premiere at Newport Jazz Festival on July 31, with additional dates in April 2017 at UCLA Royce Hall in Los Angeles and SFJazz in San Francisco.

Preorder now in the Lovers store and be entered to win a monthly contest drawing, including the chance to have dinner with Nels (transportation to/in NYC is not provided).

- Nels HQ

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

arranged and conducted by MICHAEL LEONHART
produced by DAVID BRESKIN
recorded and mixed by RON SAINT GERMAIN
album artwork by ANGELA DeCRISTOFARO

This whole thing sounds so good I might be able to believe in love again.

noisereductions 06.08.2016 02:52 PM
holy shit. Yuka Honda, Zeena Parkins, a full orchestra, Sonic Youth & DNA songs, a double album... this looks phenomenal.

I don't see a vocalist listed, but there are "lyrics by" in the credit. I'm hoping that it's still instrumental takes. Either way, I am beyond excited. This is going to be awesome.

themawt71 06.08.2016 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by noisereductions
holy shit. Yuka Honda, Zeena Parkins, a full orchestra, Sonic Youth & DNA songs, a double album... this looks phenomenal.

I don't see a vocalist listed, but there are "lyrics by" in the credit. I'm hoping that it's still instrumental takes. Either way, I am beyond excited. This is going to be awesome.


no vocals but nels mentions that the lyrics are important to him so that's why they listed the lyricists

noisereductions 06.08.2016 03:04 PM
ok, awesome, I can't wait to hear this.

themawt71 06.08.2016 04:02 PM
me too

secret love, the first song released, sounds so good

The Soup Nazi 06.08.2016 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by noisereductions
holy shit. Yuka Honda

Well, it would've been fucked up not to have the wife on an album called Lovers...

ilduclo 06.08.2016 05:04 PM
http://www.rabbitrabbitradio.com/sho...-album-lovers/

noisereductions 06.08.2016 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Well, it would've been fucked up not to have the wife on an album called Lovers...

Haha true

themawt71 06.08.2016 06:01 PM
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npr generally broadcasts the newport jazzfest. hope they don't stop this year

The Soup Nazi 06.19.2016 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by noisereductions
& DNA songs

"It Only Has To Happen Once" is actually from Lindsay & Scherer's Ambitious Lovers project... Not that it makes it any less cooler. :)

I feel that in addition to his "mood music about romance" goal, Nels is consciously expanding the definition of "the great American songbook" (even though, OK, not all composers are Unitedstatesians*). With SO many recent stabs at it, mostly dismal (Rod Stewart, whose talent commited suicide in 1975), a few great (Dylan), it's like Cline is saying, Look ding dongs, this is a living, organic and growing thing, and Sonic Youth and Annette Peacock are as much a part of it as Rodgers & Hammerstein.

In that sense, it's not Nels' first time: when he did Interstellar Space Revisited with Gregg Bendian, he acknowledged he was trying to fight The Marsalis Bible On Jazz History and push the notion that fiery free jazz, electric Miles and early Weather Report belong in the jazz continuum just as Louie Armstrong or Charlie Parker do.

* It's a word! Look it up!

The Soup Nazi 07.21.2016 06:39 PM
From Nels Cline HQ:

 


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"I Have Dreamed," the Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II standard, is the latest offering from Nels Cline's Lovers - out Aug. 5 on Blue Note Records. Step inside the studio with Nels, conductor Michael Leonhart and the ensemble in the video above.

Download "I Have Dreamed," plus "The Bed We Made" (one of Cline's original compositions on Lovers) and "Beautiful Love" instantly when you preorder.

Preorder now for a chance to win a signed copy of Lovers vinyl (winner drawn tomorrow on July 22) and be eligible for a dinner with Nels. Details here, and browse the Lovers merch.

- Nels HQ
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P.S. Just announced: GOO, a new ICON Series Signature Pedal developed in collaboration with ToneConcepts. Nels' first signature pedal is a distortion that combines the best characteristics of his favorites along with a simple gig-friendly design. Preorder 1 of just 250 now.

PREORDER GOO

confusion is next 07.22.2016 05:08 PM
nels cline is such a great guitar player !

The Soup Nazi 07.31.2016 08:04 PM
From Nels HQ:

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Dear world -

It has come to my attention that, owing to a manufacturing snafu in Santa's summer jazz workshop, the physical release of my forthcoming double album called "Lovers" will be delayed - CD out on Aug. 19 and vinyl out on Sept. 2. >SIGH< Ah well. "We will sell no wine before its time." - Paul Masson

There will be a small heap of compact disc versions for sale and signing at the Newport Jazz Festival, where we will unveil several of these pieces on Sunday morning. For those of you not attending the festival, please be understanding and enjoy the full album digitally on Aug. 5 plus the songs released in advance that have been posted while you are waiting.

Thank you all!
XO
Nels Cline

http://lovers.kungfustore.com/

The Soup Nazi 07.31.2016 08:09 PM
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From Nels HQ:
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There will be a small heap of compact disc versions for sale and signing at the Newport Jazz Festival, where we will unveil several of these pieces on Sunday morning.

Oh, shit, that was today. Hopefully somebody taped it!

themawt71 08.01.2016 07:43 AM
https://www.facebook.com/nelscline/

one song from newport

The Soup Nazi 08.01.2016 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by themawt71

Nice! Also a wee bit of rehearsal video.

The Soup Nazi 08.05.2016 07:07 PM
From Nels HQ:

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Maybe the best things in life come in stages? Seriously, this is an exciting day for it marks the digital release of my double album Lovers on Blue Note Records, a concept album of sorts featuring (at the most) 22 stellar musician comrades playing music of mine as well as from other sources, all arranged and conducted by the protean Michael Leonhart.

Produced by my good friend David Breskin, it features 19 songs (18 tracks) recorded and mixed by Ron Saint Germain and mastered by Joe Gastwirt, and now you can hear it! Those of you who, like me, enjoy holding an object and absorbing artwork (in this case by Angela DeCristofaro) and reading liner notes and detailed credits, please be patient. The double compact disc package emerges August 19th - delayed by a slight manufacturing hiccup - and the double vinyl hits September 2nd - delayed because we are insuring the best possible pressings. But for all of you downloaders, this is your time! Please enjoy.
My humble thanks to all who worked so hard to make this happen: db, Michael L., Saint, the wonderful musicians and technicians, Angela, and everyone at Blue Note and TMM. I hope that this music can at least transport you to a place beyond the strident voices and conflicts we face daily, a place where dreams, intimacy, trust, and yes - love, flourish.

XO Nels (Aug. 5, 2016 - New York City)


When you preorder in the Lovers store, you'll be automatically entered to win a dinner with Nels in NYC (must provide own transportation) plus Lovers vinyl signed by Nels Cline, David Breskin and Michael Leonhart. The winner will be chosen Tuesday, Aug. 9. Preorder now.

noisereductions 08.05.2016 07:50 PM
Listened to it today. Good stuff.

themawt71 08.06.2016 07:39 AM
snare girl sounds great with all of the strings and horns.

themawt71 08.18.2016 01:49 PM
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 08.19.2016 04:28 PM
AllMusic's review:

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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 08.23.2016 05:14 PM
From Nels HQ:

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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:

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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? :D

tesla69 08.30.2016 09:06 AM
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 08.30.2016 10:54 AM
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So, from The Stone:



Will somebody please tape it ALL? :D

Seriously!

greenlight 08.30.2016 01:47 PM
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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.


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