Title: MacRoscope Artist: Nels Cline Label: Mack Avenue Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 673203108523 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2014-04-15 Number of Discs: 1
Macroscope, the fifth album and Mack Avenue debut by his adventurous trio The Nels Cline Singers, provides a measure of the long-running group's staggering range. Captivating and continually surprising, the album finds the instrumental trio with the slyly deceptive name veering in one off-kilter direction only to suddenly be overwhelmed by another drastic stylistic shift, often within the space of a single tune. Serrated psychedelia becomes consumed by soulful Brasiliana, blissed-out electronica overwhelmed by garage-rock skronk. Then there's the wholly unexpected "Red Before Orange," where a howling Hendrix-inspired solo suddenly erupts in the middle of a slick lounge-jazz number, Cline unleashing the inner George Benson that few of us expected he even had.
Tracks: 1.1 Companion Piece 1.2 Canales' Cabeza 1.3 Respira 1.4 Red Before Orange 1.5 Wedding Band 1.6 MacRoscopic [For Kusama-San] 1.7 Climb Down 1.8 Seven Zed Heaven 1.9 Hairy Mother 1.10 Sascha's Book of Frogs
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