Interstellar Space Revisited

Nels Cline | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 31, 2009)
• Original Release Date: June 8, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: ATAVISTIC
• ASIN: B00000IR77
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,825 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mars

2. Leo

3. Venus

4. Jupiter

5. Saturn

6. Lonnie's Lament

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Stellar Revisitation, January 13, 2000

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Pharoah S. Wail (Inner Space) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Interstellar Space Revisited (Audio CD)

Let's face it, stamp a famous dead musicians name on a cd then base the cd on one of his most well-known works and you have a built-in marketing promotion for your cd. Well, don't even start to think that this is a haphazard "tribute album" that's more about money than music.

I can't say that I agreed with the "official review" that Amazon has posted though. Nels Cline is not approximating Coltrane's phrasing or sound at all (and I do not mean that badly!). This isn't a guitarist and a drummer just recreating something that a saxophonist and a drummer did 33 years ago. This is a guitarist and a drummer taking that 33-year-old album and using it's themes only as a launching pad for their own brand of interstellar improvisations. Coltrane's INTERSTELLAR SPACE and this cd share in the same "spirit" of giving into the musical unknown, but musically-stylistically speaking, these are two very different pieces of music, and both should be in the collection of anyone who loves creative improvisation. This would have terrified and astonished Coltrane even at his most out music of '66 and '67. Nels is beautiful and insane.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Re-Make Of Coltrane Classic, January 25, 2000

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"skapunkbluesjazzrock" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Interstellar Space Revisited (Audio CD)

This album is an amazing remake of the John Coltrane classic Interstellar Space, but honestly the album is more than just a simple re-make, it amazingly sends Coltrane's music into an entire new direction of creativity. Interstellar Space features only a drummer and a guitarist pooring their hearts out into a recreation of the genious that is John Coltrane. The free jazz drums are played quickly and skillfully, while the guitarist plays a wide range of screechy and spacey sounds, and you soon realize after about a minute of the first track that these guys are some seriously awesome musicians. Buy this album if you want something different, and great.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trane would be more than pleased, April 2, 2000

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happydogpotatohead "happydogpotatohead" (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Interstellar Space Revisited (Audio CD)

It's important to recognize that Coltrane was a spiritual player, and many people who approach his music nonspiritually (especially the later works) completely miss this point. Nels Cline and Greg Bendian do not. This is not an empty shredfest but almost a rechanneling of Trane for a new century, done by two players who absolutely know what they're doing and absolutely hit the mark. This CD basically made me believe the electric guitar could be a valid instrument again.