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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.