• double vinyl lp edition

A double LP that remains compelling from beginning to end, Consentrik Quartet can feel more like a best-of compilation than a new work. To put it a different way, it just might be the finest leader recording of Cline’s long and storied career. And with its deft balance of swing and the avant-garde — check out “The Bag” — it’s also a terrific and meaningful addition to the Blue Note catalog, calling to mind the label’s 1960s classics by Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy, and others.

Of course Cline, a genial and generous man, can’t help but channel praise toward his empathetic bandmates. Compared to his often-otherworldly Singers, he explains, the Consentrik Quartet is “much more of a jazz group, if I dare use that word. I wanted to have the music reflect the players, and have the players come forth so that everybody is able to hear them and enjoy their lucidity and their mastery.”

PERSONNEL:
Nels Cline - (electric & acoustic guitar, effects)
Ingrid Laubrock - (tenor & soprano sax)
Chris Lightcap - ( acoustic bass, effects)
Tom Rainey - (drums)


LP ONE:
A1. The Returning Angel
A2. The 23
A3. Surplus
A4. Slipping into Something

B1. Allende
B2. House Of Steam
B3. Inner Walls
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LP TWO:
C1. Satomi
C2. The bag
C3. Down Close

D1. Question Marks
D2. Time Of No Sirens