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Nels Cline - Lovers

Review by Dan Lucas

Actually quite lovely and soothing»

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One of Rolling Stone's 'Greatest Guitarists of All Time', Blue Note artist Nels Cline releases his 18-track double album 'Lovers'. For the last dozen years Nels has been a full-time member of the acclaimed rock band, Wilco. Appearing as a guest or feature player on 200+ albums, Nels has also led various groups of his own, most consistently the avant-garde ensemble the Nels Cline Singers. Inspired by the likes of Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Gil Evans, Johnny Mandel, and Henry Mancini among others, "I have been dreaming about, planning, and re-working my rather obsessive idea of this record for well over twenty-five years, and it was always going to be called Lovers," says Cline. "It is meant to be as personal in its sound and in its song selection as it is universal in its endeavor to assay or map the parameters of 'mood' as it once pertained, and currently pertains, to the peculiar and powerful connection between sound / song and intimacy / romance. In this, I hope Lovers offers something of an update of the 'mood music' idea and ideal, while celebrating and challenging our iconic notion of romance."
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