Re: Nels Cline

[hovard@online.no]

At 23:42 21.11.97 +0000, you wrote:
>I'm glad Paolo brought up Nels Cline, one of my favorite 
>musicians and a master of the EH 16 second delay. 

I`m sitting here with a feeling that I have heard about Nels Cline before.
I think it  was a "hometown hero" thingy in Guitar Player/World.
Does anyone else remember this?  Is Nels Danish , by any chance???


I don't  know if I'd call him a looper, he uses the delay mostly 
>like Frisell used to (on say, Power Tools), to timestretch 
>or reverse a phrase while it's decaying, to build clouds 
>of noise for endings and transitions, and to get big 
>throbbing Sonic Youth-like dissonances with one guitar in 
>standard tuning.

I am a huge Frisell-addict and I`m curious of what "Power Tools" 
are/is/was?


Thanks , Thomas W




>So now I'm going to babble about his music.
>Here are some records he's on besides the new Mike Watt.
>Mike Watt-Ballhog or Tugboat?
>Julius Arthur Hemphill & The JAH Band-Georgia Blue
>Nels Cline Trio- Silencer, Ground, Chest
>The Vinny Golia Quintet-Nation of Laws, Against the Grain, 
>Razor
>Live from the Knitting Factory (I forget which volume)
>Nels Cline & Thurston Moore-Pillow Wands, In-Store
>The Geraldine Fibbers-Butch
>Nels Cline-Angelica
>also albums by Alex Cline, Brad Dutz, Quartet Music. 
>others
>
>Ground and Pillow Wands are my current favorites. The 
>composition and interplay on Ground are mindblowing in 
>their depth and diversity, while Pillow Wands has some of 
>the most beautiful guitar textures I've ever heard. The 
>Vinny Golia albums give Nels tons of space to stretch out 
>in what a smart-ass rock writer would call "post-jazz."
>Nels' thing (as near as I understand it) is to approach 
>the Sonic Youth big beautiful dissonant blob aesthetic in 
>an incredibly musically literate way at the same time he's 
>attempting a sweet Frisell/Scofield/Metheny thing in a 
>punk way. Like if Greg Ginn, Jim Hall, and Lee Ranaldo 
>were all the same person...
>Anyway, check him out.
>
>
>-- 
>Jeff Schwartz
>jeffs@bgnet.bgsu.edu
>http://www.bgsu.edu/~jeffs/main.html
>
>