artist : Nels Cline Trio
title : Immolation/Immersion
date : 2005
label : Strange Attractors
genre : Jazz
release date: 2006-04-25
street date : 2005-11-01
tracks : 5
bitrate : VBRkbps / 44.10 kHz
size : 79.91
source : CD
type : Album
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Nels Cline, West Coast guitar iconoclast, records his finest achievement.
Never one to tread the well-worn paths of guitardom, Cline here ventures
into uncharted guitar-bass-drum waters. Striving for and bringing forth a
primal aural landscape of heretofore unencountered sounds and
sensibilities, Cline stakes out territories and feelings far beyond the
precincts of ordinary guitar sounds, reaching for and often evoking a
chthonic, primordial musical self-understanding that at once evokes and
declaims a rawness of nature that participates in purely controlled chaos.
There's a raw power and elemental intensity present here that taps into
nature's most regnant and unconquerable moments, a kind of feral ferocity
that steamrolls everything in its way, a presence of such magnitude that
all opposing it fades and deliquesces in its presence. Cline and cohorts
unleash a sonic force of such enormity that prior efforts along such lines
pale by comparison: These dudes have absolutely annexed metal jazz, making
it their personal playground, cavorting and gamboling in it with supreme
felicity and grace.
Deploying a staggeringly diverse set of sonic strategies, the band pummels
listeners with skronks and squeaks, honks and bleeps, shrieks and blats so
formidable that the listener is dragged, willy-nilly, into precincts of
sonic subversion seldom if ever before encountered in the history of
recorded music. This is metal jazz of staggering proportions, a soundscape
of thick commotion and roiling anarchy to chill the marrow of all but the
most stalwart and intrepid musical explorers.
Listen at your own risk, but be primed for music of uncommon gravity and
consequence.
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1 - Lake of Fire Memories 2:32
2 - Immolation/Immersion 28:10
3 - Minus Mint 4:15
4 - Beard of Pine 13:12
5 - Ghost Bell Canto 6:24
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