Cline, Alex / Continuation
| Album: | Continuation | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Cline, Alex | Added: | Feb 2009 | |
| Label: | Cryptogramophone | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2009-03-01 | Pull Date: | 2009-05-03 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | May 3 | Apr 26 | Apr 19 | Apr 12 | Apr 5 | Mar 22 | Mar 8 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 24, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum
Nourishing Our Roots |
4. | May 01, 2009: | Memory Select
On The Bones Of The Homegoing Thunder [excerpt] |
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| 2. | Dec 10, 2011: | Music Casserole
Steadfast |
5. | Apr 24, 2009: | Memory Select
Clearing Our Streams |
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| 3. | Jun 19, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum
Nourishing Our Roots |
6. | Apr 24, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum
Steadfast |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2009-03-01
Reviewed 2009-03-01
ALEX CLINE: Continuation
Cryptogramophone, 2009
AVANT/WORLD-JAZZ – Percussionist Cline leads an unusual quintet with strings and piano through adventurous, complex compositions with lots of space for improvising. There’s a definite Asian flavor to most of the melodies, with 1+7 being almost entirely melodic and the sprawling 5+6 going farthest afield. 2+4 are oblique modern jazz. It’s captivating from start to finish, the product of groundbreaking vision.
* * * * | All great, but 5 & 6 are long and rambling
1. 10:04 – slow, tranquil, beautiful: melody makes the rounds, surges & falls
2. 7:34 – solo bass, then a moody jazz pulse builds up; elusive harmony
3. 4:54 – very slow & atmospheric: loud clattery noises over simple piano line
4. 11:15 – heavy, Asian-tinged modern jazz: great drums, 2nd half goes “out”
5. 18:25 – alternates gradually between quiet, mysterious soundscapes, sad string melody, crashing & clattering percussion, bells & harmonium
6. 18:38 – long suite, many abrupt changes: calm abstraction, aggressive avant-bop, edgy strings, sweet melodies, ponderous drums, etc.
7. 5:59 – starts sparse, picks up a slow melody; pretty, but kind of gloomy too
[ Fo ] 03/01/09
Cryptogramophone, 2009
AVANT/WORLD-JAZZ – Percussionist Cline leads an unusual quintet with strings and piano through adventurous, complex compositions with lots of space for improvising. There’s a definite Asian flavor to most of the melodies, with 1+7 being almost entirely melodic and the sprawling 5+6 going farthest afield. 2+4 are oblique modern jazz. It’s captivating from start to finish, the product of groundbreaking vision.
* * * * | All great, but 5 & 6 are long and rambling
1. 10:04 – slow, tranquil, beautiful: melody makes the rounds, surges & falls
2. 7:34 – solo bass, then a moody jazz pulse builds up; elusive harmony
3. 4:54 – very slow & atmospheric: loud clattery noises over simple piano line
4. 11:15 – heavy, Asian-tinged modern jazz: great drums, 2nd half goes “out”
5. 18:25 – alternates gradually between quiet, mysterious soundscapes, sad string melody, crashing & clattering percussion, bells & harmonium
6. 18:38 – long suite, many abrupt changes: calm abstraction, aggressive avant-bop, edgy strings, sweet melodies, ponderous drums, etc.
7. 5:59 – starts sparse, picks up a slow melody; pretty, but kind of gloomy too
[ Fo ] 03/01/09
Track Listing
| 1. | Nourishing Our Roots | 4. | Steadfast | |||
| 2. | Clearing Our Streams | 5. | Submerge | |||
| 3. | Fade To Green | 6. | On The Bones Of The Homegoing Thunder | |||
| 7. | Open Hands (Receive, Release) | |||||