ウィルコのネルス・クラインがムード・ミュージック・プロジェクトのソロ・アルバム『Lovers』を発売、1曲試聴可

ウィルコ（Wilco）の一員としても活動を続けるギタリストのネルス・クライン（Nels Cline）がソロ・アルバム『Lovers』を海外で8月5日発売。リリース元は新たに契約を結んだBlue Note Records。

20年以上の間、構想を練っていたという本作は、ビル・エヴァンスやジム・ホール、ギル・エヴァンス、ヘンリー・マンシーニなどから着想を得た“ムード・ミュージック”プロジェクトで、総勢23名のミュージシャンが参加したオーケストラ・アルバムとのこと。本作ではアメリカのスタンダード・ソングのほか、ソニック・ユースやアート・リンゼイなど、幅広いジャンルの楽曲を選曲しています。演奏にはチボ・マットの本田ゆかも参加しています。

現在、アルバムから「Beautiful Love」が聴けます

●『Lovers』

The track listing and personnel for Lovers is as follows:

SIDE ONE

1. Introduction / Diaphanous 4:23

music by Nels Cline

2. Glad To Be Unhappy 4:07

music by Richard Rodgers / lyrics by Lorenz Hart

3. Beautiful Love 3:58

music by Wayne King, Victor Young & Egbert Van Alstyne / lyrics by Haven Gillespie

4. Hairpin & Hatbox 3:32

music by Nels Cline

5. Cry, Want 6:53

music by Jimmy Giuffre



Side Two

1. Lady Gabor 8:26

music by Gabor Szabo

2. The Bed We Made 3:25

music by Nels Cline

3. You Noticed 4:01

music by Nels Cline

4. Secret Love 4:30

music by Sammy Fain / lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

5. I Have Dreamed 2:39

music by Richard Rodgers / lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II



Side Three

1. Why Was I Born? 5:04

Music by Jerome Kern / lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

2. Invitation 2:26

music by Bronislaw Kaper / lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

3. It Only Has To Happen Once 5:45

music and lyrics by Arto Lindsay & Peter Scherer

4. The Night Porter / Max, Mon Amour 8:13

music by Daniele Paris (The Night Porter) / music by Michel Portal (Max, Mon Amour)



Side Four

1. Snare, Girl 6:35

music & lyrics by Sonic Youth

2. So Hard It Hurts / Touching 6:53

music by Annette Peacock

3. The Search For Cat 2:33

music by Henry Mancini

4. The Bond 5:48

music by Nels Cline



NELS CLINE: electric & acoustic guitars, lap steel, effects

DEVIN HOFF: contrabass, bass guitar

ALEX CLINE: drumset, percussion

STEVEN BERNSTEIN: trumpet, slide trumpet, flugelhorn, alto horn

TAYLOR HASKINS: trumpet, flugelhorn, valve trombone

MICHAEL LEONHART: trumpet, flugelhorn, cymbalon, celeste

ALAN FERBER: trombone, bass trombone

CHARLES PILLOW: C, alto, & bass flutes, oboe, English horn, alto saxophone, Bb clarinet

JD PARRAN: C, alto, & bass flutes, Bb clarinet, alto clarinet, baritone & bass saxophones

BEN GOLDBERG: contra-alto clarinet, Bb clarinet

DOUGLAS WIESELMAN: bass clarinet, Bb clarinet, tenor saxophone

GAVIN TEMPLETON: Bb clarinet, alto saxophone

SARA SCHOENBECK: bassoon

JULIAN LAGE: acoustic & electric guitars

KENNY WOLLESEN: vibraphone, marimba, percussion

ZEENA PARKINS: harp

YUKA C HONDA: celeste, Juno 60

ANTOINE SILVERMAN: violin

JEFF GAUTHIER: violin

AMY KIMBALL: viola & violin

STEPHANIE GRIFFIN: viola

ERIK FRIEDLANDER: cello

MAGGIE PARKINS: cello



arranged and conducted by MICHAEL LEONHART

produced by DAVID BRESKIN

recorded and mixed by RON SAINT GERMAIN