Jun 18, 2013
Sleepover Shows' Instrument Interview #13: Nels Cline
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Sleepover Shows' Instrument Interview #13: Nels Cline
Mikael Jorgensen posted this yesterday, along with the caption "Saturday morning metal on 'the Apache'"
Check out Nels' Don't Frack My Mother t-shirt!
The Music Box Theatre in Chicago will be showing the 30-minute documentary Approximately Nels Cline on July 1. Check it out if that's your part of the world! It's part of their Summer Music Film Festival. The full schedule for the festival is available here.
We'll have to keep an eye (and an ear) out for this interview with Nels, coming soon from Sleepover Shows.
It's fascinating to watch Norton Wisdom paint, especially how he erases and revises as he works. It's an added bonus that the soundtrack is part of Nels' album Coward.
Here's a good interview with Nels that was posted on All About Jazz today. He talks a lot about teaching, learning, and influences.
New Zealand music website Under the Radar published a nice interview with Nels today. As always, it sounds like he's been busy with a lot of projects, and he mentions that he and Julian Lage will be recording an album next month. He also talks a little about what he's been listening to lately ("Anytime I’m in a bad mood I can put on Deerhoof and feel better.")
Wilco plays in Wellington on Friday and Auckland on Saturday. Then it's off to Japan!
Nels is featured in an article in published today by the New York Times (it will be in tomorrow's print edition) about a CD set released as part of the $100 Guitar Project. He contributed a track called "Seared Beard," which writer Allan Kozinn describes as "a riffy meditation punctuated by a single cymbal crash and a hint of laughter."
(the iTunes preview made my cat run under the couch--classic Nels, in other words!)
Nels had this to say about the piece and about the project: “'To be honest,' Mr. Cline wrote in an e-mail, 'the guitar isn’t all that unusual — at least not to me. I have played and continue to play many "cheap" or, as I call them, "ugly duckling" guitars. I find that I seek out and enjoy their unique sound potential, and many times the tones that they can produce are only achievable on such instruments because guitar tastes and accouterments have changed over time. The "$100 Guitar" is much like my first couple of guitars that I owned in the late ’60s-early ’70s. That said, I don’t think the guitar itself had much to do with the form or vibe of the piece I ended up doing. In fact, I have no clue as to why I went the direction I did. Mood swing? Desperation?'”
The two-disc set, featuring short contributions from 69 musicians, is available from Bridge Records for $29.99, as well as for a bit less in digital version from Amazon and iTunes. All contributors are donating their royalties to CARE, a group that fights global poverty, and the label is also donating half of its profits from sales of the album.