| Cline, Nels Singers / Initiate |
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| Album: | Initiate | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Cline, Nels Singers | Added: | Apr 2010 | |
| Label: | Cryptogramophone | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-01-23 | Pull Date: | 2011-03-27 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Mar 27 | Mar 20 | Mar 13 | Mar 6 | Feb 27 | Feb 6 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 15, 2013: | Fight or Flight King Queen | 4. | Jun 27, 2013: | Tlön: An Investigation Floored | |
| 2. | Oct 25, 2013: | Fight or Flight Divining | 5. | Oct 07, 2012: | The Mongrel's Stoop Divining | |
| 3. | Oct 18, 2013: | Fight or Flight Floored | 6. | Aug 24, 2011: | Memory Select King Queen |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2011-01-22 | ||
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Prog + avant-jazz instrumentals, a VERY electric guitar trio w/bass, drums, electronics, some keyboards. Often rocking, sometimes indie-rock tuneful, but usually striving for advanced-sounding improvising and solo spaces. Genre-crossing hints abound, with prog and psych coming to mind frequently. Throughout, Nels shows off jazz chops and rock effects. A more expansive sound than the previous 'Singers albums. DISK ONE -- New studio stuff. 1,4,6,9,13 - transition pieces; drifting, less eventful. 2- Snappy groove, squiggly guitar. 3- Pretty. Catchy bass riff, gentle sound. Sparkling guitar. 5- Prog attack, really cool, slashing. 7- Delicious acoustic riffs; prog influence. Mellow groove with "world" percussion. 8- Crunchy electronics noodling. Noise fans, alert. 10- Funk/reggae driven groove. Big intensity. SO COOL. 11- A bit sinister, slowly twining. Quiet start. 12- Unsettling chimes, into something dark and heavy. Mildly metal; lotsa guitar shredding. DISK TWO -- Live: WATCH for applause/spoken intros. Every track is great, but they're long for most shows (7-8 minutes) 1- Quiet, but you can tell it's gonna get menacing! 2- Prog-poppy, cool-handed jazz solo, then lots of noisy psych 3- Angry, ragged, thick. Draws from metal & math rock. 4- Skittery, light, jazzy - then country/folky! Kinda quiet. 5- Playful jazz guitar, tuneful. Fast friendly psych later. Spoken intro. 6- Shimmery noise, then a dark & catchy composition. 7- Propulsive, open-ended jazz. Rockin' proggy ending. Drum solo opens. 8- Bubbling midtempo funk. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Into It | 11. | Zingiber | |||
| 2. | Floored | 12. | Mercy (Procession) | |||
| 3. | Divining | 13. | Into It (You Turn) | |||
| 4. | You Noticed | 14. | Forge | |||
| 5. | Red Line To Greenland | 15. | Fly Fly | |||
| 6. | Mercy (Supplication) | 16. | Raze | |||
| 7. | Grow Closer | 17. | And Now The Queen | |||
| 8. | Scissor/Saw | 18. | Blues, Too | |||
| 9. | B86 (Inkblot Nebula) | 19. | Thurston County | |||
| 10. | King Queen | 20. | Sunken Song | |||
| 21. | Boogie Woogie Waltz | |||||