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	Nels Cline - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: Guitarist Nels Cline is best known for his work in the group Quartet Music (with brother Alex Cline, bassist Eric Von Essen, and violinist Jeff Gauthier) as well as other projects in the jazz, rock, and avant-garde idioms, and for his general involvement in the West Coast's improvisation community.
		By the time Cline reached his twenties, he was heavily involved in L.A.'s improvisational community and, in 1978, appeared on his first recording, Openhearted by multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia.
		Cline's brother Alex sat in on their first concert and eventually joined on permanently, resulting in the group Quartet Music, which remained together throughout the 1980s.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/883/Nels-Cline/8741695.html (376 words)

	Nels Cline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nels Cline (born in Los Angeles in 1956) is an American guitarist and composer.
		Cline has also performed and recorded with punk rock hero Mike Watt in his touring bands The Crew of the Flying Saucer and The Black Gang, as well as with members of Sonic Youth and country music legend Willie Nelson, and in the jazz/punk/improv band Banyan with Watt and ex-Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins.
		Clines current outfit is the improv/free jazz ensamble The Nels Cline Singers, with which he has recorded two albums, Instumentals and The Giant Pin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nels_Cline (321 words)

	Nels Cline - New Monastery: A View Into the Music of Andrew Hill - Review - Stylus Magazine
		Cline also stresses in the liner notes the importance of the subtitle, A View Into the Music of Andrew Hill, as he makes no attempt at a traditional tribute album or comprehensive selection of Hill's catalog.
		Cline is undoubtedly one of the most distinctive and individual guitarists working today, and most of the records which bear his name are the work of Cline as an auteur, whether or not he's the composer.
		Nels Cline will probably never cross over into acceptance by the jazz establishment, or make a record that fully reins in his love for noise and skronk, but New Monastery may be the closest he comes to accomplishing either.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /reviews/nels-cline/new-monastery-a-view-into-the-music-of-andrew-hill.htm (643 words)

	Cryptogramophone > Creative Jazz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nels Cline is one of the most versatile, imaginative and original guitarists active today.
		Cline claims his most valuable music training came from his work with bassist/multi-instrumentalist Eric von Essen, with whom he performed as a duo from 1977 until von Essen’s untimely death in 1997.
		Clines’ 1987 Enja release, Angelica, which added New York City altoist Tim Berne to a roster of longtime Cline collaborators Alex Cline, Stacy Rowles, Eric von Essen, is a fine example of his work from this period.
	www.cryptogramophone.com /module-Crypto-artist-id-9-nels-cline.htm (400 words)

	Just axing (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cline was pushing 40 before he could quit a succession of bookstore and video store jobs and tour enough to (just) stay afloat with music.
		Cline laughs, says he’s heard it’s "a little noisier now." Then says he’s probably not the right person to be fielding the question.
		Cline sails a sea of slashing anthem-like chords into a squall of distortions in "He Still Carries a Flame for Her." (When’s the next King Crimson auditioning?) Next thing you know, he’s turns Beatleseque for a second or stirs up the perfect riot of skronk.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=7840 (1604 words)

	Nels Cline: Intrepid Guitarist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cline's breadth of style is reflected in the albums that he cites as influential, albums that date back to his growing up days, but extend well into his adult years.
		Reconciling Cline's jazzier predilections with his desire for a broader reach that also incorporated his rockier sensibility was a challenge, and something that the first trio wasn't always completely successful at combining in a way that his current trio, The Nels Cline Singers, can.
		Cline may be of the opinion that he goes to extremes with some of his music but, like the best of some of his own musical progenitors, if he didn't take those intrepid risks, then music would never move forward.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=14490 (5803 words)

	Nels Cline Singers: Instrumentals: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The recently assembled Nels Cline Singers are guitarist Nels Cline's current touring outfit featuring Devin Hoff on contrabass and Scott Amendola on drums/electronics.
		While Nels spends his days axing for the Geraldine Fibbers, noodling with Thurston Moore, shopping for shoes with Mike Watt, etc., all he's ever really wanted to do was go home and toss back a can of that cold, frothy jazz.
		Cline's relatively spare figures, Hoff's sobbing vibrato, and Amendola's electronic manipulations on "Harbor Child" are all equally elegiac.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/cline_nels/instrumentals.shtml (547 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Interviews
		Nels Cline is a local hero round these parts.
		NELS CLINE: It is fascinating to me to have read later all the anti-jazz controversy, because certainly jazz as a tradition is not my tradition.
		NELS CLINE: Yeah, I never have any concept of how the records are doing, but I think that for one thing, it helps that it is not my music (laughing).
	www.jazzweekly.com /interviews/cline.htm (2376 words)

	sfweekly.com \| News \| Nels Cline/Gregg Bendian
		Guitarist Nels Cline and drummer Gregg Bendian explain in the album notes that their interpretation of Coltrane's Interstellar Space -- his celebrated 1967 duet recording with drummer Rashied Ali -- is offered with humility and respect.
		Cline's playing channels the spirit of Coltrane with a rare intensity, which seems to spring from the same well Jimi Hendrix would have drawn from had he survived to realize his post-rock aspirations.
		Nels Cline and Gregg Bendian perform with Scarnella, Bobb Bruno, and Species Being on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 9 p.m.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/2000-02-23/record2.html (421 words)

	Nels Cline: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Guitarist Nels Cline [+] is best known for his work in the group Quartet Music [+] (with brother Alex Cline [+], bassist Eric Von Essen [+] and violinist Jeff Gauthier [+]), as well as other projects in the jazz, rock and avant-garde idioms, and for his involvement in the West Coast's improvisation community, in general.
		By the time Nels reached his 20s, he was heavily involved in LA's improvisational community and, in 1978, appeared on his first recording, Openhearted [+] by multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia [+].
		Nels' brother Alex sat in on their first concert, and eventually joined on permanently, resulting in the group Quartet Music [+], which remained together throughout the 1980s.
	www.music.com /person/nels_cline/1 (466 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Nels Cline Trio *
		Cline’s new 7”, Hold It Under A Faucet, was recorded in 1995 with bassist Bob Mair and drummer Michael Preussner.
		Cline himself lists the Boredoms as an inspiration for many of these songs, and their influence is apparent in not only the songs’ squalling noise but also their surprising dynamic shifts.
		Cline, on the other hand, has only the other two members of his trio backing him in what seems to be an overdub-free setting.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/335 (515 words)

	Music \| The Nels Cline Singers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Anyone familiar with guitarist Cline’s wit and left-field playing won’t be surprised to discover there are no vocalists in the Nels Cline Singers, just Cline on guitars, Devin Hoff on upright bass, and Scott Amendola on percussion and live effects processing.
		Cline drags steel across his strings and toys with fuzz-distortion feedback as Amendola samples and spins everything back into the mix.
		We finally arrive at an oasis of melodies that are quietly wrung from Cline’s opaque-toned guitar or snatched from percussive sounds and repeated in loops.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/02223821.htm (282 words)

	Off the Record \| Nels Cline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nels Cline is best known to rock fans as the dynamic six-string ace in the Geraldine Fibbers, but he’s also one of the instrument’s leading avant-gardists.
		In fact, Cline often makes melody his foundation, building a loop from a spare little tune, as he does in " Friends of Snowman, " then laying down rich, arpeggiated chords and trinkling, chime tones in a search for spontaneous beauty.
		And Cline’s playing, whether he’s delivering rock scream ’n’ grind, as he does at the climax of " Martyr, " or making a merry clatter in the opening " Spider Wisdom, " always abounds with humor, energy, and emotional depth.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/01990204.htm (184 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Nels Cline Singers *
		Cline has spent most of his musical life in the glare of Southern California, composing for and performing in a list of ensembles and settings too numerous to attempt to catalog at any length.
		Cline credits his work with Von Essen as being some of his most instructive, and the late composer’s influence can be seen clearly in Instrumentals' expansive compositional palette, which ranges from free-jazz to punk rock to the liltingly lyrical, sometimes all in the same track.
		Cline seems like about four or five different guitarists throughout the course of the album, his only consistent tendency at some points seems to be his ability to do that which is least expected.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/210 (501 words)

	The Giant Pin + The Entire Time : Nels Cline : CD Reviews : One Final Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As for Cline's Singers project, it is a "kitchen sink" affair where Cline and his cohorts—bassist Devin Hoff and drummer Scott Amendola—look to a vast expanse of influences both sound and genre-wise to create their own concoction.
		Cline's wiry guitar, though, takes flight almost immediately on the record's second track, "Fly, Fly", where he displays his trademark compositional mix of jazz and rock material with head-scratching sounds emerging from his axe, as the band trashes and roars alongside.
		Cline straps on his nylon-string guitar for the effervescent "City Snow Stories", an interactive contrast to the Eastern tinge of "The Tiny Boxes Speak Her Name", which features Golia's dizi (another bamboo flute) in combination with acoustic guitar.
	www.onefinalnote.com /reviews/c/cline-nels/giant-pin.asp (878 words)

	Nine Winds Records: Nels Cline
		NW0102 Vinny Golia, Baikida Carroll, Nels Cline, R.Miranda, A. Cline - Openhearted
		Nels Cline began playing guitar around the age of 12, when his twin brother, Alex, began learning the drums.
		By the time Cline reached his 20s, he was heavily involved in L.A.'s improvisational community and with the Nels Cline Trio hosted a weekly improv series for four years in the early 90's.
	www.ninewinds.com /Artists/ncline.html (205 words)

	Nels Cline Singers: The Giant Pin: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Considering all the stylistic liberties Cline has taken-- cavorting from idiom to idiom and leaving his unique treads on all of them-- mainstream recognition was probably always wishful thinking.
		After a life of devout gigging, Cline was suddenly stressing the often blissfully ignored desire to do something lucrative and, in a somewhat defensive tone, attempted to preempt charges of perfidy from longtime followers of his jazz and fringe work.
		Whether Cline will continue to cleave himself from the gigging life remains to be seen, but for now he's handling the balancing act quite nicely.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/cline_nels/the-giant-pin.shtml (577 words)

	Nels Cline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Guitarist Nels Cline had just settled back into his "routine" of hosting the Alligator Lounge's New Music Mondays series, pushing ahead with an intense caseload of collaborations, when a distress call was sounded.
		And Cline is currently preparing to go back on the road with the Fibbers for another two months.
		Cline plays a 1996 Fender Jaguar with the Nels Cline Trio, and a 1959 Fender Jazzmaster that he bought from Mike Watt.
	www.stardustlanes.com /fibbers/nels.html (413 words)

	Avantgarde Music. Nels Cline: biography, discography, reviews, links
		The Inkling (Cryptogramophone, 2000), recorded by a quartet of Cline, Zena Parkins (harp), Mark Dresser (bass) and Billy Mintz (drums), is a majestic effort to bridge jazz and rock in the age of post-rock.
		Cline's relatively pensive, relaxed, meditational tone on this album marks a "growing up" of sort: the creative fury of his early albums is now channeled in atmospheric, textural, psychological counterpoint.
		Destroy All Nels Cline (Atavistic, 2001), a project with four guitarists and a rhythm section, is another sensational enterprise that aims at redefining the meaning of jazz from a punk-rock perspective.
	www.scaruffi.com /avant/cline.html (817 words)

	CD Review of Destroy All Nels Cline - Destroy All Nels Cline on Atavistic @ jazzreview.com
		Nels Cline has been at the forefront of both the jazz and new music scenes in Los Angeles for the past twenty years.
		Nels delivers a very beautiful and haunting solo over a slow moving background.
		Nels Cline is one of the most interesting guitarists working today.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=1584 (502 words)

	Nels Cline - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		By the time Nels reached his 20s, he was heavily involved in LA's improvisational community and, in 1978, appeared on his first recording, Openhearted by multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia.
		Bassist Eric Von Essen and Nels met up in the late '70s, began working together and recorded an album of duets called Elegies that was released in 1980 on the 9 Winds label.
		Nels' brother Alex sat in on their first concert, and eventually joined on permanently, resulting in the group Quartet Music, which remained together throughout the 1980s.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,415684,00.html (522 words)

	CD Review of Nels Cline - The Inkling on Cryptogramophone @ jazzreview.com
		Joining Cline on this session is contrabassist Mark Dresser, who has firmly established himself as another musical chameleon, working comfortably with artists as diverse as Anthony Braxton, Dave Douglas, Ray Anderson and Joe Lovano.
		With extended technique pulling sounds out of the instrument that are completely unexpected, Dresser is the perfect foil for Cline; with feet in both the new music and contemporary improvised music worlds, Dresser has a warm tone that suits both his pizzicato work as well as his gorgeous Arco playing.
		As abstruse as Cline’s shimmering chordal passages are on “Moth Song,” there is something strangely appealing about they way he incorporates just a touch of blues and Americana into the mix.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=6471 (628 words)

	Nels Cline Singers - Instrumentals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This trio date, ironically called the Nels Cline Singers, features only the voices of guitars, basses, and various forms of acoustic and electric percussion.
		The haunted beauty of Harbor Child is another, with Cline's fingerpicked melody enveloped in the soft, lonesome swirl of Holt's arco work and the gull-like percussion effects of Amendola.
		The final track is a shimmering glissando jazz ballad with restrained dynamics and timbres and an ethereal hint of a melody that resonates long after the recording ends.
	www.scottamendola.com /discog_nelsclinesingersinstr_frame.html (409 words)

	BBC - Jazz Review - Nels Cline Singers, Instrumentals
		Cline also understands the visceral impact of a good strum, and has added some thrash elements to his musical vocabulary.
		Every track on this CD is a winner, and with a recording as fine as this one, Cline is identifying himself as a major force in the world of electric guitar.
		I think Cline manages to manipulate the atmosphere and mood of his compositions that reverberate their effect long after the track has finished.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/jazz/reviews/clinenels_instrumentals.shtml (682 words)

	Nels Cline Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nels Cline is one of the most versatile, imaginative, and criminally unheralded guitarists active today, a dubious distinction he shares with Christy Doran, James Emery, and a handful of others.
		In the early 1990s, the guitarist formed the amped-up Nels Cline Trio, perhaps the best vehicle to date for Cline's guitar excursions, which range from probing, reflective balladry to knotty riffing to bracing freeform assaults.
		In addition to his trio, Cline regularly performs with his brother and the constellation of creative musicians associated with reedsman Vinny Golia's adventurous Nine Winds record label.
	www.scottamendola.com /bio_nels_frame.html (197 words)

	Nels Cline Trio @ Alligator Lounge - 10/3/96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Petra Haden, the violinist for that big time rock group That Dog, is here at the Alligator Lounge tonight to see the Nels Cline Trio and also to celebrate the release of her new CD, "Imaginaryland".
		Nels Cline is a guitarist who utilizes a galaxy of effects and tricks to get the sounds he needs into the air.
		I ask Nels what these messages mean and he says they relate to the Geraldine Fibbers (last night Nels made a cameo with the Geraldine Fibbers at the Troubadour).
	www.endlessla.com /october/100396_alligator (1504 words)

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