Nels Cline – Share The Wealth (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Nels Cline – Share The Wealth (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:15 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

On Nels Cline’s 3rd Blue Note release Share The Wealth, the sonic explorer and guitar renegade delivers a potent and provocative program of spontaneous, uncompromising, and ultimately compelling music with an expanded edition of his long-running project The Nels Cline Singers featuring saxophonist and punk-jazz iconoclast Skerik, keyboard marvel Brian Marsella, bass powerhouse Trevor Dunn, longtime collaborator and drummer Scott Amendola, and Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista. Together they revel in swirling, evocative soundscapes brimming with ferocious skronking and uninhibited stretching on this dynamic double album.

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Nels Cline – Lovers (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Nels Cline – Lovers (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:30:08 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Nels Cline was named by Rolling Stone as one of the ‘100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time’. He has led various groups of his own, most consistently the avant-garde ensemble the Nels Cline Singers, and appeared as a guest or feature player on more than 200 albums. 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. 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.

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Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft, Nels Cline – Music from the Early 21st Century (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft, Nels Cline - Music from the Early 21st Century (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft, Nels Cline – Music from the Early 21st Century (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:41 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RareNoiseRecords

While hardly representative of the hits streaming through the Bluetooth ether these days, ‘Music from the Early 21st Century’ is nonetheless aptly titled, colliding as its does entire threads of musical history leading up to the very moment of its explosive creation. The album, captured live during a brief tour of the Northeastern U.S. in early 2019, is essentially a freely improvised organ trio set.
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Nels Cline & Julian Lage – Room (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Nels Cline & Julian Lage – Room (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 56:46 minutes | 0,99 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Mack Avenue Records

Individually, guitarists Nels Cline and Julian Lage have played in many settings. Cline, a member of Wilco, has worked with Julius Hemphill, Charlie Haden, and many others; Lage’s extensive resume includes Gary Burton and Yoko Ono. Room is generally quiet, but things can get charged, and the album doesn’t lack edge. On Lage’s “Calder,” the pair play acoustic guitars, and you can hear traces of unplugged John McLaughlin. Cline’s “Racy” references blues, but it also spirals off in other directions. “Freesia/The Bond” opens like a ballad, goes on to hint at non-Western music, and wraps up in a pop-like mode.

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