Cline, Nels Singers / Draw Breath
Album: Draw Breath   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Cline, Nels Singers   Added:Jun 2007
Label:Cryptogramophone  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-06-24 Pull Date: 2007-08-26 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Aug 26 Aug 19 Aug 5 Jul 22 Jul 15 Jul 8 Jul 1
Airplays: 1 1 2 2 1 2 4

Recent Airplay
1. Aug 01, 2024: Some Songs Without Words
Attempted
4. Mar 20, 2009: Memory Select
Attempted
2. Oct 04, 2013: Fight or Flight
Caved-In Heart Blues
5. Feb 01, 2008: Memory Select
Squirrel Of God
3. Oct 21, 2012: The Mongrel's Stoop
The Angel Of Angels
6. Aug 24, 2007: Memory Select: sfSound and Webern
Attempted

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2007-06-23
NELS CLINE SINGERS: Draw Breath
Cryptogramophone, 2007

Monster guitarist’s trio with top Bay Area improvisers Scott Amendola & Devin Hoff. Supple and aggressive, they thrash with ear-splitting intensity, then seamlessly switch to quiet murmurings, folksy musings or chugging rock. Wilco’s Glenn Kotche guests on track 9.

Fo’s Picks: 2, 4 go way out; 1, 6 are non-threatening; 9 is just strange

1. 6:50 – dark & moody: heavy bass like a tolling bell, slow bluesy guitar
2. 8:47 – uptempo, twisted jazz riffing, quiet break, impenetrable wall of guitar, fast bass solo, huge crashes, turbulence, chugging ending
3. 4:11 – uptempo, thumping rock into bowed bass solo, guitar heroics
4. 15:59 – broad soundscape: wanders through metallic rattles & shimmies, quiet burblings, harsh electronics, smashing freakouts, slow metal
5. 6:13 – relaxed, moody ballad, a bit folksy; sounds like backing to lyrics
6. 4:06 – mellow acoustic meanderings through several melodic ideas
7. 14:50 – 1st half is a steady uptempo jam (watch out for silent break), then quiet electronic burbling slowly grows into chugging rock
8. 3:37 – slow acoustic musings
9. 8:18 – quiet pulse, then psychedelic atmospherics, with groaning bass & tinkly accents, oddball effects; powerful pop-like bit near the end

[ Fo ] 23-Jun-07

Track Listing
1. Caved-In Heart Blues   5. The Angel Of Angels
2. Attempted   6. Recognize I
3. Confection   7. Mixed Message
4. An Evening At Pops'   8. Recognize II
  9. Squirrel Of God