Macroscope
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Fo
Reviewed 2014-05-01
Reviewed 2014-05-01
NELS CLINE SINGERS: Macroscope
Cryptogramophone, 2014
POSTMODERN JAZZ – Guitar god Cline (of Wilco and a zillion avant-jazz projects) leads an instrumental group (nope, no singers*) with Bay Area drummer Scott Amendola, bassist Trevor Dunn, and special guests including percussion wizard Cyro Baptista. This is wide-ranging stuff: psychedelic jams, driving electronic thumps, general weirdness, in mostly short tracks that evolve unexpectedly and end quickly.
* actually, Nels sings a little bit. :)
Try any track. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9
1. 5:37 – mellow, moody melody evolves into energetic psychedelic maelstrom
2. 4:26 – churning dark groove, holds steady under tight guitar twists & turns
3. 4:19 – slow guitar & wordless vox vs. fast tropical drums, then a hot jam
4. 4:11 – relaxed, soulful melody with synth heartbeat & electric piano
5. 8:18 – uptempo: drives across a percussion/synth landscape, echoey guitar
6. 4:00 – acoustic guitar & hummed melody / abstract percussion & drone
7. 3:22 – heavy stomp with slow buzzy guitar and electric harp, trippy accents
8. 11:16 – ominous trippy funhouse world, then drone layers build up and up…
9. 7:10 – sci-fi bleeps & bloops; insistent fuzz-thump; rising guitar tension
10. 5:54 – mini bursts and abstracted melodic threads piled haphazardly
[ Fo ] - 1 May 2014
Cryptogramophone, 2014
POSTMODERN JAZZ – Guitar god Cline (of Wilco and a zillion avant-jazz projects) leads an instrumental group (nope, no singers*) with Bay Area drummer Scott Amendola, bassist Trevor Dunn, and special guests including percussion wizard Cyro Baptista. This is wide-ranging stuff: psychedelic jams, driving electronic thumps, general weirdness, in mostly short tracks that evolve unexpectedly and end quickly.
* actually, Nels sings a little bit. :)
Try any track. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9
1. 5:37 – mellow, moody melody evolves into energetic psychedelic maelstrom
2. 4:26 – churning dark groove, holds steady under tight guitar twists & turns
3. 4:19 – slow guitar & wordless vox vs. fast tropical drums, then a hot jam
4. 4:11 – relaxed, soulful melody with synth heartbeat & electric piano
5. 8:18 – uptempo: drives across a percussion/synth landscape, echoey guitar
6. 4:00 – acoustic guitar & hummed melody / abstract percussion & drone
7. 3:22 – heavy stomp with slow buzzy guitar and electric harp, trippy accents
8. 11:16 – ominous trippy funhouse world, then drone layers build up and up…
9. 7:10 – sci-fi bleeps & bloops; insistent fuzz-thump; rising guitar tension
10. 5:54 – mini bursts and abstracted melodic threads piled haphazardly
[ Fo ] - 1 May 2014
Recent airplay
Seven Zed Heaven
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Canales' Cabeza, Companion Piece
Rebop — Jun 26, 2015
Companion Piece
The Sunset Life — Jul 03, 2014
Hairy Mother
minimum entropy — Jul 02, 2014
The Wedding Band
Rebop — Jun 19, 2014
Red Before Orange
No Cover, No Minimum — Jun 13, 2014
Charting
2014-05-02 — 2014-07-04
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Jul 6 | 2 |
| Jun 22 | 1 |
| Jun 15 | 1 |
| Jun 8 | 3 |
| Jun 1 | 2 |
| May 25 | 1 |
| May 18 | 2 |
| May 11 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | Companion Piece | ||
| 2. | Canales' Cabeza | ||
| 3. | Respira | ||
| 4. | Red Before Orange | ||
| 5. | The Wedding Band | ||
| 6. | Macroscopic (For Kusama-San) | ||
| 7. | Climb Down | ||
| 8. | Seven Zed Heaven | ||
| 9. | Hairy Mother | ||
| 10. | Sascha's Book Of Frogs |