"Sparks Fly Upward reflects the way Cline has always constructed his music - though construct is too harsh a word. The changes, while often radical, occur naturally, like the views you encounter as you walk along a mountain path. Cline seems to clear a quiet space and allow the music to come into it... Whether it's a hushed, busy rhythm underneath, or the way or the way metallophones hit you like four cups of coffee, some element can't help suggesting a restless desire to attain an unnamed pinnacle. And you feel that when he arrives there, he finds humans, not gods.
Product Description
Alex Cline continues in the spirit of his ECM release The Lamp & the Star, with this percussion-voice-violin-guitar-keyboard-bass-lineup. Drummer/percussionist Cline has worked with jazz greats Charles Lloyd, Charlie Haden, Julius Hemphill, John Carter, Bobby Bradford, Vinny Golia and many others.
Produced by famed jazz drummer Peter Erskine, Cline's latest release Sparks Fly Upward includes pieces dedicated to Tony Williams, Andrei Tarkovsky, Richard Grossman, and Eric von Essen. Mr. Cline sets to music text by Rilke, Tarkovsky and Dorothea Grossman.
The Alex Cline Ensemble features singer Aina Kemanis (who has recorded with Barre Phillips and Marilyn Mazur), guitarist G. E. Stinson, violinist Jeff Gauthier, keyboardist Wayne Peet and bassist Mike Elizondo.
Producer Peter Erskine writes: "Alex Cline has a musical sensibility and sensitivity that belong to another time...a time when intimate thoughts were best expressed by someone sitting down, setting pen to paper, and sending their innermost feelings by land or sea, to be read by the intended a few days or weeks later...in short, a time when time really counted. This recording is like a very special letter written by a wise friend; the news it carries is current, but its real message is timeless. The musicianship is inspired, the engineering is translucent. This album is a gift." -Peter Erskine
Sparks Fly Upward
Sparks Fly Upward,Alex Cline Ensemble,Cryptogramophone,Avant-Garde Jazz,Jazz,Modern Creative,Pop
Jazz Music:
- St. Louis Blues: Traditional Dixieland Classics
- Summer Night
- Swiss Suite [Live] [Original recording remastered] [Import]
- Television [Live] [Import]
- The Eyes Have It
- The Mind in the Trees [Live]
- The Music of Raymond Scott: Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights
- The One & Only
- The Original Mr. Jelly Lord
- The Wayne Henderson Collection
Jazz Music
I Wonder How [CD-single] [Import]
Benno Moiseiwitsch: A Centenary Celebration
Cliff Jordan [Original recording remastered] [Import]
Music: Stand by Your Van [Explicit Lyrics] [Live]
Destroy Rock 'n' Roll [Import]
Best of Kid Creole & the Coconuts [Import]
Berio: Circles; Sequenzas 1, 3 & 5