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Recorded by Ron Saint Germain
· CD1 at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, on March 23-25, 2009.
· CD2 live at Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco, on September 3, 2009.
Reviews
By John Fordham
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/aug/19/neels-cline-singers-cd-review
Don't be deceived by the name – this is really a scorched-earth
metal-electronica improvising guitar band that threatens to blow you out of
your window. This suitably other-worldly double-CD package (the cover images,
fittingly, are all of the Hadron Collider) contains a crafted studio album and
a flat-out live show – what producer David Breskin calls "a raw black-and-white
movie" compared to the "hyper-sensuous technicolour" of the studio
half. Guitarist Cline contributed to the work of jazz artists like Tim Berne
and Julius Hemphill, but has worked in an abstract-rock manner more prominently
with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and others. In the studio set, smacking funk
grooves crank up out of ambient atmospherics to elicit the sound of a late
Miles Davis road-band; or bleeping robot-speak electronics turn into a clanging
guitar anthem. The live half is ruthlessly leaner, sometimes mingling explosive
electronics and wounded-elephant roars into free-improv duets with bassist
Devin Hoff. Blues Too is an unexpectedly gorgeous chord-voicing exploration
over brushes and occasional bowed bass dedicated to guitar master Jim Hall. In
the 15-minute Boogie Woogie Waltz's blazing sound palette, there's even a
melodic motif mimicking a Chinese erhu violin. It's pretty fierce, but a
contemporary guitar buff's dreamworld.
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Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiate_%28Nels_Cline_Singers_album%29
By Thom Jurek
http://www.allmusic.com/album/initiate-mw0001966371
By Stef
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2010/04/rova-nels-cline-singers-celestial.html
By Bill Meyer
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5651
By Troy Collins
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/initiate-nels-cline-cryptogramophone-review-by-troy-collins.php
By David Gassmann
http://www.popmatters.com/review/123357-the-nels-cline-singers-initiate/
By Mike Shanley
http://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/the-nels-cline-singers-initiate/
Igor Jovanović (hr)
http://www.jazzin.rs/the-nels-cline-singers-initiate-cryptogramophone/
Von Markus Stegmayr (de)
http://www.alpenfeuilleton.at/2016/08/plattenzeit-18-the-nels-cline-singers-initiate/
Di Michele Camerin (it)
http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2010_nelsclinesingers.htm
Por Héctor Aravena A. (es)
http://rockaxis.com/vanguardia/discos/the-nels-cline-singers/initiate
Por Ricardo Arribas (es)
http://www.jazzitis.com/discos/nels-cline-singers-initiate-cryptogramophone-2010/
