Editorial Reviews Previous releases from the duo include a limited edition, vinyl-only 12" ("Rise Pumpkin Rise") on the indie Volvolo Records and their debut, critically acclaimed full length CD: "Edible Flowers" (WIN Records) released in 1998. Their latest offering "Buried on Bunker Hill" (Ground Fault Recordings) is the duo's first recorded output in over 5 years & marks the next step forward in their sonic collab. Utilizing studio multi-tracking for the first time, the sounds that make up "Bunker Hill" are decidedly more textured and complex than any of the duo's previous (primarily live) offerings. With comparisons as divergent as Harry Partch & Pink Floyd, Cline + Sarno have clearly carved out their own unique musical niche. "The duo tends to generate a drone of sorts, often propelled by an amorphously throbbing bass (that, on "a knot in the wind", reminded me a lot of Pink Floyd's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun") over which Cline rips piercing lines that, even as they merge with the general ambience, sometimes betray a whiff of fusion pyrotechnics. The pieces are pleasant without having much to chew on or think about. The closing track, "only peace", broods attractively with an in and out respiratory feeling." Biran Olewnik - Bagatellen Guitarist NELS CLINE and bassist DEVIN SARNO have been playing together for almost 10 years, and this is their first multitrack recording (their past collaborations have been live). With a focus on improvisation and texture, Buried on Bunker Hill rumbles thick, low and foggy, as Cline's detuned and bent guitar mechanics gravitate, distort, meander and hover. For fans of Labradford, Flying Saucer Attack, and the like. Easily the best recording by a duo with chemistry to burn.
Buried On Bunker Hill, Music, Nels Cline & Devin Sarno
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Nels Cline (guitarist of The Nels Cline Singers, Scarnella, Mike Watt, + duet partner with Thurston Moore, Zeena Parkins, Gregg Bendian, Vinny Golia, etc.) & Devin Sarno (the solo bassist behind CRIB & founding member of the seminal L.A. art-prog band Waldo The Dog Faced Boy) began experimenting together in a live concert context in 1994, fueled by a mutual appreciation for "on-the-spot" sonic sculpting. The resulting sounds have ranged from restrained dynamics to unrelenting sonic firestorms and all points in between.
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"It's impossible to do this record justice in a review, it should just be heard. I've never heard of these two guys and here is a really great record of experimental ambient, falling somewhere near Mandible Chatter, Final and Ruhr Hunter. It just goes to show that Ground Fault, the label here, is really only interested in putting out the best sounds they can find. The first piece, 'Swinging London', is a fearless nineteen minutes of elegant changes from panoramic dream-textures and anthemic ambient to building washes of sonic strength and exhuberant release. Guitar sheers off the edges, makes coiled nests inside of a thick wall of drone, certainly vertical sounding, high, climbing, towering into the clouds. But you're there, flying up the grand sides, never finding the end, waves of golden sound crashing over you, the eventual end not as important as your movement along this perfect monolith. In stark contrast, the second five-minute track, 'Hydrofoil', is a coy! , introspective groaning chamber, periodic pings of chord trilling in the darkness, winds moving through the center. I could go on, describing each track like this, but then we'd have a ridiculously long review here. These guys use all the right tools for the job: guitar, autoharp, electric bass, drones, loops, turning out a very precise, unavoidable vision of sonic beauty. Excellent. Can't recommend this too much. " - Manifold Records
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ASIN: B0001NJ4O4 Release Date: 2004-01-06 |
Album Description
"It's impossible to do this record justice in a review, it should just be heard. I've never heard of these two guys and here is a really great record of experimental ambient, falling somewhere near Mandible Chatter, Final and Ruhr Hunter. It just goes to show that Ground Fault, the label here, is really only interested in putting out the best sounds they can find. The first piece, 'Swinging London', is a fearless nineteen minutes of elegant changes from panoramic dream-textures and anthemic ambient to building washes of sonic strength and exhuberant release. Guitar sheers off the edges, makes coiled nests inside of a thick wall of drone, certainly vertical sounding, high, climbing, towering into the clouds. But you're there, flying up the grand sides, never finding the end, waves of golden sound crashing over you, the eventual end not as important as your movement along this perfect monolith. In stark contrast, the second five-minute track, 'Hydrofoil', is a coy! , introspective groaning chamber, periodic pings of chord trilling in the darkness, winds moving through the center. I could go on, describing each track like this, but then we'd have a ridiculously long review here. These guys use all the right tools for the job: guitar, autoharp, electric bass, drones, loops, turning out a very precise, unavoidable vision of sonic beauty. Excellent. Can't recommend this too much. " - Manifold Records"The duo tends to generate a drone of sorts, often propelled by an amorphously throbbing bass (that, on "a knot in the wind", reminded me a lot of Pink Floyd's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun") over which Cline rips piercing lines that, even as they merge with the general ambience, sometimes betray a whiff of fusion pyrotechnics. The pieces are pleasant without having much to chew on or think about. The closing track, "only peace", broods attractively with an in and out respiratory feeling." Biran Olewnik - Bagatellen
Guitarist NELS CLINE and bassist DEVIN SARNO have been playing together for almost 10 years, and this is their first multitrack recording (their past collaborations have been live). With a focus on improvisation and texture, Buried on Bunker Hill rumbles thick, low and foggy, as Cline's detuned and bent guitar mechanics gravitate, distort, meander and hover. For fans of Labradford, Flying Saucer Attack, and the like. Easily the best recording by a duo with chemistry to burn.
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