Photo by Sean Ono Lennon


Wilco guitarist Nels Cline has announced his third record with Blue Note, titled Share The Wealth. The record will be released on Nov. 13. In addition to the album announcement, Cline also shared a new single, titled “Beam/Spiral.”

“On Share The Wealth, the sonic explorer and guitar renegade delivers a potent and provocative program of spontaneous, uncompromising music with an expanded edition of his long-running project The Nels Cline Singers featuring saxophonist and punk-jazz iconoclast Skerik, keyboard marvel Brian Marsella, bass powerhouse Trevor Dunn, longtime collaborator and drummer Scott Amendola, and Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista,” read a press release.

The album was recorded over the course of just two days at The Bunker in Brooklyn, N.Y. “This band has never even played a live gig together,” explained Cline. “So basically, the whole thing was an experiment. We recorded all these jams with the idea that I was going to take tiny fragments of them and create this kind of cut-and-paste, collaged, psychedelic record like an Os Mutantes record or something crazy like that. But when I listened back to these jams, I liked them so much that I wanted to keep them intact. And some of the most startling transitions, they’re not edits. They just happened in the course of these long improvisations in the studio, almost like magic.”

The album is available for pre-order now; click here to do so. Listen to “Beam/Spiral” below!