Nels Cline Singers

(Nels Cline) currently leads several bands including the forward-leaning, vocal-less, guitar trio the Nels Cline Singers, featuring Devin Hoff bass and Scott Amendola drums/electronics. In a review of the band’s second album, The Giant Pin (Cryptogramophone), All About Jazz described it as “a sonically varied, deadly experimental amalgam of genres and styles. Incorporating undulating waves of pure texture, metal-loud drum beats, and distortion-laden guitar as well as minimalist, floating soundscapes with traditional jazz vernacular and improvisational structures, the Nels Cline Singers have done what all jazz’s pantheon are honoured for trying: they’ve stepped forward into the future world of sound. Without a single word.”