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Dirty Baby - Deluxe 2Cd Box Set - 4,5 Downbeat
Nels Cline
Cryptogramophone
671860014225
MAC 124381
CG 142
JAZZ
2
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Cline was recruited for this project by producer David Breskin, the organizer of Bill Frisell's tribute project, Richter 858 (Songlines, 2005), set to Gerhard Richter's abstract paintings. Dirty Baby is organized into two parts: "Side A" is CD1, and is a continuous, 42-minute composition that follows the pre-history, history, and post- history of America, from primordial ooze to what sounds like post-apocalyptic stasis. Beginning with the gentle strumming of his acoustic guitar that is mirrored in the left and right channels, Cline builds the New World as a sunrise of harmonica (Bill Barrett), plus his Nels Cline Singers mates—bassist Devin Hoff and drummer Scott Amendola—who awaken to the possibilities of this world. As the piece builds, so does the complexity and the musicians, adding organ, piano, percussion and additional guitars. Following the 33 Ruscha artworks, the suite tracks through genocide, the western settlement, consumerism and finally the Iraq wars. The complexity segues into a funky mix "Part IV," and then a the swampy jam "Part V" that ends as simply as the suite began.
If "Side A" was a congruent whole, then "Side B" is entropy. It was conceived as 33 pieces for the 33 Ruscha artworks. Cline and his collaborators perform an encyclopedic array of styles and forms, the pieces clocking in from a half minute to three-and-a-half to explore noise, rock, free jazz and chamber classical, much like the work of John Zorn. Don't like a piece? It will be over in a minute, but same for the ones you enjoy. Is that not similar to walking through an exhibit of Ruscha's art?
FORMATO | CD |
NUMERO DE DISCOS | 2 |
RECORDED | 0 |
LABEL CODE | CG 142 |
ESTILO | JAZZ |