★★★★★
What do you get when you take two masterful instrumentalists with very divergent stylistic outputs and put them in a studio to play together? The answer to that lies in very different contexts. Nels Cline is known for his more aggressive electric style, and Julian Lage is a pretty amazing acoustic/electric traditionalist in the jazz vein. is where Cline meets Lage on Lage's turf. Can Cline play that way? Yes. Does Lage seem to be locked in fourth gear eschewing fifth? Sadly, yes again...
- exclaim.ca
2014-11-08
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Dirty BabyNels ClineCryptogramophone2010 This summer's Initiate album by improv-electronica group the Nels Cline Singers (there are no singers) spliced a freewheeling live show with a Miles-meets-Thurston Moore studio set produced by regular associate David Breskin, furnishing subtle backdrops for Cline's resourceful guitar playing...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-12-20
★★★★★
There's an ambitious feel to most of Nels Cline's projects, whether or not he's at the helm. Ambition seems to permeate his language, musical and otherwise. His notes and words continually threaten to exceed their boundaries. Given his penchant for size and scope, it's strange that Dirty Baby seems to contain itself so well. The 90-minute work flows logically, beautifully, from point to point, never feeling incomplete or overstated...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-12-06
★★★★★
Track Listing: CD1: Dirty Baby: Part I; Dirty Baby: Part II; Dirty Baby: Part III; DirtyBaby: Part IV; Dirty Baby: Part V. CD2: In God We Trust; Hi There, MyOld Friend; If I Was You I'd Do Just Like I Told You To Do; Do As I SayOr...; No Mercy; Do As Told Or Suffer; Agree To Our Terms Or PrepareYourself For A Blast Furnace; Your A Dead Man;Hey You Want ToSleep With The Fishes...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-11-22
★★★★★
Nels Cline's liner notes to Dirty Baby do such a good job of providing context that I'm fighting temptation to basically retype them. But here's the short of it: poet/arts philanthropist David Breskin appointed guitar madman Cline to compose music accompanying a series of works by Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha. Cryptogramophone thrusts the whole package at you in a study cardboard box with two booklets containing 66 images as well as photos of the recording session...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Nels Cline's liner notes to Dirty Baby do such a good job of providing context that I'm fighting temptation to basically retype them. But here's the short of it: poet/arts philanthropist David Breskin appointed guitar madman Cline to compose music accompanying a series of works by Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha. Cryptogramophone thrusts the whole package at you in a study cardboard box with two booklets containing 66 images as well as photos of the recording session...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-11-08
★★★★★
In Destroy, Nels' big band project, rock, jazz & prog-tinged structures meet head on & careen off the guardrails; dreams are achieved in an ambitious 75:00+ time frame. He'd been building these compositions over a lengthy period of time, waiting for the stars to align properly to allow the direction & documentation of the pieces with a larger ensemble than his usual duo/trio/4tet projects...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Having recently shared a 50th birthday recital/jam with his twin brother, Alex, at Cryptogramophone label owner/producer Jeff Gauthier's Cryptonight, LA's Nels Cline shows no sign of slowing down. A musician of limitless range, he creates, among other sounds, noise using kitchen utensils on a heavily processed guitar, enhances Willie Nelson tunes with soulful ornamentation, rocks Wilco, and offers versions of the music of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and now Andrew Hill...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Acoustic Guitar Trio Vignes Long Song Records 2009 Stephen Gauci/Nels Cline/Ken Filiano/Mike Pride Red Feast Cadence Jazz Records 2009 Guitarist Nels Cline is so recognized as a force in contemporary music because he's not really a "force". In other words, his considerable technique, taste and penchant for cross-genre blurs don't always take the spotlight. Rather, he is a group musician in the truest sense of the phrase...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
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