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ENJ 9577CD
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Originally released in 2019. "Featuring Tim Berne, Stacy Rowles, Eric Van Essen, and Alex Cline. Angelica is simply a beautiful album. Besides the leaders' excellent work on electric and acoustic guitar it features the elegant and so personal sounding alto sax of Tim Berne as well as the emotional trumpet of L.A.'s Stacy Rowles, the daughter of piano giant Jimmy Rowles. The music breathes a certain airy and cool romanticism which is at its most impressive on 'Maria Alone,' dedicated to Maria Farantouri, the great Greek lady of song. Nels Cline began to play guitar at age 12 when his twin brother, Alex Cline, took up the drums. The pair developed musically together, playing in a youth rock band they dubbed Homogenized Goo. He played with jazz musicians Charlie Haden, Gregg Bendian, Wadada Leo Smith, Tim Berne, Vinny Golia, and the late bassist Eric Von Essen, a longtime musical companion in the L.A. jazz group Quartet Music. In 1983, Nels joined the early formation of BLOC. The quintet became a Los Angeles club favorite and garnered much praise from the local press and media. Practically every major label was interested at some point but no major label seemed to have a clue how to promote the multi-talented group."
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ALP 122CD
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"In Destroy, Nels' big band project, rock, jazz & prog-tinged structures meet head on & careen off the guardrails; dreams are achieved in an ambitious 75:00+ time frame. He'd been building these compositions over a lengthy period of time, waiting for the stars to align properly to allow the direction & documentation of the pieces with a larger ensemble than his usual duo/trio/4tet projects. Nels sought & secured the services of electric harp goddess Zeena Parkins (fresh from recent studio sessions with Bjork), immaculate string benders G.E. Stinson, Carla Bozulich (Geraldine Fibbers/Scarnella), conjoined identical twin/trapman extraordinaire Alex Cline (Interzone). With the scale, drama & intensity to rival a great feature film, Destroy All Nels Cline will likely leave fans of big guitar music, out-jazz, Interstellar Space Revisited & avant/prog-rock agape in it's roiling wake."
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