| Cline, Alex / Continuation |
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| Album: | Continuation | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Cline, Alex | Added: | Feb 2009 | |
| Label: | Cryptogramophone | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-03-01 | Pull Date: | 2009-05-03 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | May 3 | Apr 26 | Apr 19 | Apr 12 | Apr 5 | Mar 22 | Mar 8 |
| 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] | |
| 2. | Dec 10, 2011: | Music Casserole Steadfast | 5. | Apr 24, 2009: | Memory Select Clearing Our Streams | |
| 3. | Jun 19, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum Nourishing Our Roots | 6. | Apr 24, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum Steadfast |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2009-03-01 | ||
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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 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 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) | |||||