Name: Coward
Brand: Nels Cline

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crtp1412

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2009-03-09

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Nels Cline

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Metal

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nels cline is a 'guitar god' cut of an entirely different cloth. possessing a seemingly limitless capacity for self-reinvention, cline's expansive but thoughtful approach to guitar improvisation - most notably for alt-country experimentalists wilco - has crisscrossed a mind-boggling array of musical styles within the free jazz, rock, and avant-garde idioms. cline's fearless sensibility shows no sign of flagging on the ironically titled 'coward', the guitarist's 2009 solo effort. deploying a constantly changing palette of sounds, cline's wayward explorations never come across as haphazard or throwaway experimentations at the cost of musical structure. long-form explorations such as the 18-minute epic, 'rod poole's gradual ascent to heaven,' build from gentle acoustic thrums to wracked pile-ups of jagged, zither-like cacophony to ringing mantra-like repetitions, maintaining a sustained level of interest and engagement throughout. meanwhile, on the more episodic 'onan suite,' cline constructs bruising solo and backing tracks from a variety of non-traditional means from sampled and rhythm machine accompaniment to looping pedals, upending the often staid and academic tropes of solo improv jazz guitar.

Coward

Music GB