{"id":5066,"date":"2016-08-15T13:24:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T17:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2016-08-25T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T19:39:29","slug":"nels-cline-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/nels-cline-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nels Cline <br>Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nels_cline-lovers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5067\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nels_cline-lovers.jpg\" alt=\"Nels Cline, Lovers\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nels_cline-lovers.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/nels_cline-lovers-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Guitarist\/composer Nels Cline\u2019s <i>Lovers<\/i> (Blue Note Records) is both a sharply focused statement and an expansive wide-lens view of the landscape of the human heart. With his core band of Devin Hoff (bass) and twin brother Alex Cline (drums) serving as the heartbeat of a 20-piece chamber orchestra filled with improvisers, the album is an update on the light music and mood records popular in the early days of the LP. The ensemble stitches together standards, film music, and more contemporary pieces with Cline\u2019s own compositions into a delicious, cohesive whole.<\/p>\n<p>After an introduction, the first track, \u201cDiaphanous,\u201d sets the overall mood for the record. The shifting, billowing texture of the strings and reeds feel translucent as Cline\u2019s guitar shines light through them and traces the silhouette with fluid, even strokes. Many sumptuous moments on this set pick up that thread. A pastoral vision of Rodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s \u201cI Have Dreamed\u201d uses Cline\u2019s lap steel like rapidly cooling magma running through a landscape. His vocals stretch the time-tested melody into almost surreal details like a painter using perspective and light that couldn\u2019t exist in the real world to keep the eye engaged. The way Alex Cline\u2019s cymbals find a middle ground between Nels\u2019 leading voice and Kenny Wollensen\u2019s vibes is a masterclass in the coloring qualities of percussion, and the shades of the melody bouncing between clarinets and brass highlights Michael Leonhart\u2019s arranging powers.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of Nels Cline\u2019s crunchier, noisier side, won\u2019t be disappointed here either. His medley of two Annette Peacock compositions, \u201cSo Hard It Hurts\/Touching,\u201d starts with a flurry of sharp edges and an almost orchestral fanfare of trumpets that flares out into a quiet, echoing throb. Elements are reintroduced piece by piece, playing with space between the notes and ending in an unresolved way that makes the listener come back again and again. Sonic Youth\u2019s \u201cSnare, Girl,\u201d feels like a close-up on a flame getting brighter and revealing more colors inside. The melody sensuously distorts, twists, and slips back into itself. Latin flavors in the percussion roll through quavering strings that resist being static even as they vibrate around a center. Gabor Szabo\u2019s \u201cLady Gabor\u201d vacillates between angularity and lushness, strings and flutes bursting through the cracks of some of the most swinging jazz playing from the rhythm section anywhere on the record. Nels tears into that material, his guitar swaggering and pulling back, brass smears led by Steven Bernstein\u2019s trumpet and runs of Zeena Parkins\u2019 harp as dance partners through the steam.<\/p>\n<p>The density and ferocity of the brass section also shine on the Rodgers and Hart classic, \u201cGlad to Be Unhappy.\u201d There\u2019s a guttural, open-wound quality to Nels\u2019 guitar, finding a catharsis by going all the way into that hurt. Strings and vibes give a depth of field to the proceedings as Bernstein\u2019s snarling trumpet laughs at the maudlin nature of the character\u2019s predicament, but also mirthlessly, flowing out of and back into Cline\u2019s guitar. Jimmy Giuffre\u2019s \u201cCry Want\u201d plumbs a similar loneliness, but atomizes it into a blood spray, crackling cells of guitar sliding over bass and sliced open by cymbals and brushed snare with orchestral accents. Digression doesn\u2019t have to be about being lost, and the group knows perfectly well how to modulate its collective voice and draw the listener in closer and closer. That indirectness is sometimes the best, most confident route. There\u2019s a lot to absorb here, but it\u2019s worth letting <i>Lovers<\/i> sink into your skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guitarist\/composer Nels Cline\u2019s Lovers is both a sharply focused statement and an expansive wide-lens view of the landscape of the human heart. 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