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Nels Cline And Gregg Bendian - Interstellar Space Revisited (The Music of John Coltrane) (1999)

Nels Cline And Gregg Bendian - Interstellar Space Revisited (The Music of John Coltrane) (1999)

BAND/ARTIST: Nels Cline, Gregg Bendian

  • Year Of Release: 1999
  • Label: Atavistic
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Quality: mp3 320 kbps / flac lossless (tracks, .cue, log)
  • Total Time: 00:59:38
  • Total Size: 137 / 392 mb
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Tracklist

01. Mars
02. Leo
03. Venus
04. Jupiter
05. Saturn
06. Lonnie's Lament

Tribute albums are iffy. Cover albums, where a favorite album is reinterpreted song by song, are downright dangerous. Cover albums of beloved classics, unless the intent is to deconstruct (see Sonic Youth's much-mooted but never-released cover of the Beatles' White Album) are pretty much suicidal. And yet, guitarist Nels Cline and drummer Gregg Bendian pull off this re-imagining of John Coltrane's final album, the sax-drums duet suite Interstellar Space. Wisely, Cline and Bendian don't try to replicate the original album, or to transcribe Coltrane and Rashied Ali's parts. Instead, they use the restless, exploratory spirit of the original as a jumping-off point, and use the structures of the tunes as the basis for their own ideas. Even at his most shredding, sheets-of-sound noisiest, Coltrane's search was for beauty; Cline's tastes run more towards the Stratocaster-in-a-garbage-disposal line, which means that a lot of Coltrane fans will run in terror from displays like the near-atonal freakout at the heart of Leo. And yet, careful listening shows that at heart, Interstellar Space Revisited (The Music of John Coltrane) isn't that far removed from the revered original at all. At best, this is a curio, but it's an interesting one for Cline and Coltrane fans alike.


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  • Guest Greg
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I think the note above underestimates what this album actually achieves.

To me, this is **not** a note-for-note recreation of *Interstellar Space*. That's exactly why it works.

There are tribute albums that faithfully reproduce a classic recording—even the applause and every musical detail. Those can be enjoyable, but they rarely add anything new.

This album takes a completely different approach. It feels as if Nels Cline and Gregg Bendian learned to *speak Coltrane's late musical language* rather than imitate his voice. They weren't trying to become Coltrane and Rashied Ali; they were asking, "What if we continued this conversation decades later?"

That's what makes this album special for me. It isn't *Interstellar Space* played again. It's a **new** album built on the same ideas, the same spirit of exploration, and the same fearless musical vocabulary.

For me, that's the highest compliment a tribute can receive.
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