#Nels Cline

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Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet, (2xVinyl/LP, CD, Digital album, Poster), feat. Ingrid Laubrock, Chris Lightcap, and Tom Rainey, Blue Note Records, 2025

Nels Cline: electric guitars, acoustic guitars, effects, production, additional mixing Chris Lightcap: acoustic bass, effects Ingrid Laubrock: tenor saxophones, soprano saxophones Tom Rainey: drums

Cover Painting: © Hiroki Katayama ('Magata Jinja') Package Design: Todd Gallopo Photography: Nathan West

[tomochika0122]

Wilco Nels Cline

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[jgthirlwell]

09.13.24 Steven Bernstein and Nels Cline with the Arturo O'Farrill Latin Jazz Orchestra, playing James Bond themes. At Bryant Park in NYC.

[a-disaster-piece]

Wilco // "A Bowl and A Pudding," from Cousin

jfc, i think i need to set an alarm that SCREAMS at me:

"DON'T FORGET TO LISTEN TO WILCO, FFS!! THEY'RE YOUR FAVOURITE FOR GOOD REASON, YOU ALWAYS FEEL BETTER & ARE IN A GOOD MOOD & YOU'RE MORE PRODUCTIVE!"

[morningwalksposts]

14.02.2025

friday ~ 14.02.2025

şatellites - midnight sweat

imperial triumphant - pleasuredome

nels cline - down close

knobil - lampadaires

nexus - out to lungh

luke howard - schlusshumne

[jt1674]

[watercolored-life]

Very underrated Wilco Album

[thebowerypresents]

Wilco Kick Off the Weekend and a Three-Night Run at the Beacon Theatre on Friday

Wilco – Beacon Theatre – June 21, 2024

Like many a Wilco fan, I look back to 2004’s A Ghost Is Born with certain fondness, not least because it was an inflection-point epoch. Before touring the Ghost material — which is to say, before Wilco rounded out the band lineup we would come to know over the two decades since with guitar sorcerer Nels Cline and multi-instrumentalist wonder Pat Sansone — Wilco had only just begun to push at the artier, more experimental edges of their invigorating, countrified indie-rock, hinting at what might come next. 

After that, Jeff Tweedy and Co. were totally indulging those edges: Ghost inaugurated an era of Wilco songs and shows that could be tightly compact or sprawling and annihilating and psychedelic, and today usually are all of those things, where even the quietest and most delicate tunes have simmering noise-rock rage just beneath them and are better for it. Wilco can be so sweetly on. They can go so wildly off. It’s all good. And as the size of their playable oeuvre has doubled since — including a prolific run of new material since the pandemic — they’ve refined what they do even further. They wear their “great modern rock” bona fides well. 

Wilco shows have a way of feeling casually epic. At the Beacon on Friday — the first of three for the band, back in the broiling city — they started out confident and workmanlike and then, gradually, both relaxed the vibe and upped the intensity. Tweedy was his usual affable, lightly sardonic self, steering them through a well-blended run of classics from all eras (“Handshake Drugs,” “Passenger Side,” “I’m the Man Who Loves You”), more recent tunes and obscurities. 

There was some deference to Ghost material — among the standouts, the sensational, Beatles-like “Hummingbird” just never gets old, and the crowd felt it deeply — but there was at least as much from 2022’s Cruel Country and 2023’s Cousin, the pandemic Wilco albums whose songs yield some of their most interesting experiments yet. “Falling Apart (Right Now),” from the former, is an actual, chicken-pickin’ country song, but one that isn’t so much a throwback to Wilco’s early, pre-millennium alt-country days as it is what the band might sound like if they took this version of the band back to that aesthetic. And yet, “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull,” from that same album, has very little country at all: a woozy, jangling build that on record ebbs into rustic psychedelia but here, live, opened up, became a sonic voyage, the band all in protracted instrumental jamming at once.

When they go for it, they really go for it. Long masters of setlist construction, Wilco built on a strong first hour and then cranked up things, using the last third of the show on a run through some of their richest material: “Heavy Metal Drummer,” “The Late Greats,” the deceptively delicate, right-in-the-feels “Jesus Etc.,” the much-beloved hymn “California Stars,” the shoegaze-hypnotic choogle of “Spiders (Kidsmoke)” at the close of a four-song encore. And every time you think you’ve previously heard the best of Cline laying waste to “Impossible Germany” — a pensive tune that in fact houses a seven-plus-minute, no-holds-barred guitar excursion — it ends up feeling like the first time, with Friday’s showstopper a wiry adventure of maybe-this-feels-like-Eddie Hazel-meets-David-Gilmour-but-no-it’s-actually-just-Nels-doing-Nels-and-holy-shit.

Wilco’s individual players get plenty of love: Tweedy, Cline, Sansone, the might-be-MVP Glenn Kotche on drums, the stalwart John Stirratt on bass, the never-not-on-point Mikael Jorgensen on keys. Less talked about, and ever more apparent as they age, is how well over 20 years they’ve jelled as an ensemble and move as one organism over songs for whom this many players and this much musicality might be too much in an arena, let alone a theater. That they’ve also kept all this from becoming mechanical — that every Wilco show still feels fresh and unforced — suggests there are many more Wilco epochs yet to come. —Chad Berndtson | @Cberndtson

(Wilco play the Beacon Theatre again tonight.)

Photos courtesy of Savannah Lauren | @savannahlaurenphoto

[jazzdailyblog]

Exploring the Musical Mastery of Ralph Towner

Introduction: Ralph Towner is a name synonymous with innovation and virtuosity in the world of contemporary jazz and classical guitar. Born eighty-four years ago today on March 1, 1940, in Chehalis, Washington, Towner’s musical journey began at a young age. His unique approach to composition and improvisation, coupled with his mastery of the 12-string guitar, has made him a revered figure among…

[tonyvasquez]

Happy Birthday, Nels Cline

📷: Tony Vasquez

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Los Lobos Surprise - Really - with “La Bamba” at Newport

- Nels Cline and John McCauley Give Band a Five-guitar Front Line on Bluesy Rendition

That Los Lobos concluded their Newport Folk Festival set with “La Bamba” is no surprise.

But the howling version the Wolves played was a shocker.

Augmented by Wilco’s Nels Cline and Deer Tick’s John McCauley, Lobos sported a five-guitar front line and put it to good use with a half-speed, blues-infused rendition of their famous Ritchie Valens cover.

The audience-shot video sounds pretty crummy. But it nevertheless crackles with electricity as Cline strangles his axe, coaxing otherworldly colors over David Hidalgo’s drawn-out vocal delivery.

Lobos have played “La Bamba” at most of the 24 gigs Sound Bites has attended. But none of them sounded like this one, which jettisoned the oft-inserted “Good Lovin’” interlude but retained the grimy outro that was recently appended to the track.

Muy bueno.

8/2/23

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Nels Cline

[a-disaster-piece]

Wilco // "Sunken Treasure," from Being There

But there is no sunken treasure, Rumored to be... Wrapped inside my ribs, In a sea, black with ink...

[morningwalksposts]

25.02.2025

tuesday ~ 25.02.2025

pelican - cascading crescent

big brave - innominate n° ii

nels cline - slipping into something

aurora - a soul with no king

kalandra - the state of the world