Destroy All Nels Cline

Nels Cline | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 31, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: ATAVISTIC
• ASIN: B00005AMOP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,188 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Spider Wisdom

2. Chi Cagoan

3. The Ringing Mind

4. Talk Of A Chocolate Bed

5. After Armenia

6. Progression

7. As In Life

8. Friends Of Snowman

9. Martyr

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Attack from above, November 1, 2002

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Pharoah S. Wail (Inner Space) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Destroy All Nels Cline (Audio CD)

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 cds, 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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy difficult listening from an out-jazz master, August 9, 2006

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Aaron Burgess "professional music scribbler" (Round Rock, TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Destroy All Nels Cline (Audio CD)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delapidating game, June 23, 2011

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Automated Message "estrus jones" (SF) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Destroy All Nels Cline (Audio CD)

How would you like some grease rubbed over your axle, Spazzy Chassis?

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Hey, Hawkwind! Hey, Sonic Youth! Come suck on this!

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You're closing the door on the sopranos pickled in fur. Jupiter is fruit-filled. Vision retreats, a mere external distraction. And then out pops baby, alarm clock and all.

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