Destroy All Nels Cline

Destroy All Nels Cline

ASIN: B00005AMOP

Editorial Reviews
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Sonically adventurous, eclectic, and tasteful, Destroy All Nels Cline continues to exhibit guitarist Cline's far-ranging talents, as well as his ability to surround himself with empathic sound-meisters. Cline's stated goal of exploring the "possibilities of many stringed instruments and their timbres in a climate of catharsis" is more than met by fellow guitarists Woody Aplanalp, Carla Baozulich, G.E. Stinson, and harpist Zeena Parkins. The nine Cline-penned compositions create distinct frameworks for layered interplay, not only among the plectrumists, but also with the sensitive rhythm section of drummer Alex Cline and bassist Bob Mair. Sonic terrain stretches from the delicate spaciousness of "Friends of Snowman" to the raging density of "After Armenia." "Chi Cacoan" and "Martyr" are explosive, Mahavishnu-like rock excursions, whereas the stunning "As in Life", dedicated to pianist Horace Tapscott, takes the listener on a textured sound journey of epic proportions. Combining chops, imagination, and an exploratory spirit, Destroy All Nels Cline is a dream come true for adventurous fans of the electric guitar. --Wally Shoup

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Average customer rating:

A Truly Awful Album

Creative, intelligent and odd

Easy difficult listening from an out-jazz master

Attack from above

states of being

Destroy All Nels Cline
Nels Cline
Manufacturer: Atavistic Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005AMOP
Release Date: 2001-04-24

Tracks:

Spider Wisdom
Chi Cagoan
The Ringing Mind
Talk Of A Chocolate Bed
After Armenia
Progression
As In Life
Friends Of Snowman
Martyr

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Sonically adventurous, eclectic, and tasteful, Destroy All Nels Cline continues to exhibit guitarist Cline's far-ranging talents, as well as his ability to surround himself with empathic sound-meisters. Cline's stated goal of exploring the "possibilities of many stringed instruments and their timbres in a climate of catharsis" is more than met by fellow guitarists Woody Aplanalp, Carla Baozulich, G.E. Stinson, and harpist Zeena Parkins. The nine Cline-penned compositions create distinct frameworks for layered interplay, not only among the plectrumists, but also with the sensitive rhythm section of drummer Alex Cline and bassist Bob Mair. Sonic terrain stretches from the delicate spaciousness of "Friends of Snowman" to the raging density of "After Armenia." "Chi Cacoan" and "Martyr" are explosive, Mahavishnu-like rock excursions, whereas the stunning "As in Life", dedicated to pianist Horace Tapscott, takes the listener on a textured sound journey of epic proportions. Combining chops, imagination, and an exploratory spirit, Destroy All Nels Cline is a dream come true for adventurous fans of the electric guitar. --Wally Shoup

Customer Reviews:

A Truly Awful Album.......2006-10-18

I can review a Nels Cline solo album and use a word like "awful" and it would be applicable to all of them. Having said that, this album blows. In fact, I don't even know why good guitarists like Cline choose to play a "free" jazz style anyway? Could it be that his compositional skills aren't that great? Could it be that he just doesn't have any idea what good jazz music is? Chances are all the above. Random noises, vast amounts of feedback, and heavy distorted guitar doesn't constitute good music. This "music" goes against everything music stands for. No structure, no melody, no rhythm, and no harmony. Without these crucial components, then all you will have left is anarchy. Don't believe the hype about Nels Cline. Go ahead and explore the sonic worlds of Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, John Abercrombie, Terje Rypdal, and Steve Tibbetts. You can't go wrong with any of these fantastic jazz guitarists.

Creative, intelligent and odd.......2006-10-09

Imagine if Sonic Youth had jazz chops and ditched the singing and you'd have an approximation of Nels Cline's Destroy All cd. It's wonderfully inventive guitar based jazz(?) both free and the more tonally conventional kind mixed with rock propulsive muscle and an avant-gardist's love of noise and texture. Destroy All is adventurous and creative music that defies easy categorization but is rewarding for those willing to take the ride. It's some of the most unique and interesting, yet accessable improvised music I've heard in a while. They buzz, howl and generate a lot of heat.

Easy difficult listening from an out-jazz master.......2006-08-09

Guitarist Nels Cline's two group albums leading up to this release were jaw-dropping forays into some of the most difficult modern sounds imaginable: "Interstellar Space Revisited" was just that, a love letter to John Coltrane and Rashied Ali's legendary duets album performed on guitar and drums, while "The Inkling" merged Cline's mercurial out-jazz playing with spacious minimalist and modern-classical arrangements. The logical follow-up, then, is "Destroy all Nels Cline," in which the guitarist and guests -- including electric harpist Zeena Parkins, Guitarist/Scarnella member Carla Bozulich, and Nels' brother, drummer Alex Cline -- squeeze progressive-rock mega-structures, minimalist counterpoint workouts and free-jazz firestorms into a 76-minute blast through genre borders. As with "The Inkling," most of the tracks here take their sweet time to develop (this ain't casual listening); but the band members' playing is so detailed, so passionate and so damned interesting, you'll think they're cooking even when they're cooling down.

Attack from above.......2002-11-02

With Destroy All Nels Cline, Nels and friends continue to create some of the best electric music happening right now.

Based both in great composition and outrageous improvisation, Destroy gives us everything from blazingly gorgeous rock guitar (Nels' solo on Chi Cagoan) to alien robots chattering with each other as they hover overhead collecting data (beginning of Martyr).

If you already own one of Nels' other great cd's, The Inkling, you also get the pleasure of hearing and comparing/contrasting the Destroy version of Spider Wisdom with the Inkling version. I prefer the Inkling version because Zeena (electric harp) is incredible on that version, but there's certainly nothing wrong or uninteresting about this version.

If for no other reason, buy this cd just so you can hear the incredible final quarter of After Armenia. Whether we're talking Chest, Interstellar Space Revisited, The Inkling or whatever else, After Armenia is one of my favorite Nels moments on record.

states of being.......2001-05-01

this is music for your soul. it is not just post-rock, non-linear, art rock or whatever, it is the world, no wait it is the song of the world--golden, glorious, foreboding, mournful, radiant--everything you can dream and feel and know and think all somehow are here without any pretension, overstatement or melodrama. i am not an instrumental musakgeek but this one got me. i'm sure if i mostly listen to sara evans and love this others will too.

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