This is the discography for American jazz musician Nels Cline.
As leader Year Title Label Personnel/Notes 1981 Elegies Nine Winds with Eric von Essen 1988 Angelica Enja 1992 Silencer Enja 1995 Ground Krown Pocket 1996 Chest Little Brother 1997 Pillow Wand Little Brother with Thurston Moore 1997 In-Store Father Yod/W.D.T.C.H.C. with Thurston Moore 1998 Rise Pumpkin Rise Volvolo with Devin Sarno 1998 Sad Little Brother 1999 Interstellar Space Revisited Atavistic with Gregg Bendian 2000 The Inkling Cryptogramophone 2000 Destroy All Nels Cline Atavistic 2002 Instrumentals Cryptogramophone 2004 Ash and Tabula Atavistic with Andrea Parkins & Tom Rainey 2004 The Entire Time Nine Winds with Vinny Golia 2004 Buried On Bunker Hill Ground Fault with Devin Sarno 2004 Graduation free103point9 with Chris Corsano & Carlos Giffoni 2004 The Giant Pin Cryptogramophone 2005 Banning + Center Experimental Music Research with Jeremy Drake 2005 Immolation & Immersion Strange Attractors with Wally Shoup & Chris Corsano 2006 Four Guitars Live Important with Ranaldo, Giffoni, & Moore 2006 New Monastery Cryptogramophone 2007 Draw Breath Cryptogramophone 2007 Suite: Bittersweet Strange Attractors with Wally Shoup & Greg Campbell 2007 Downpour Victo with Andrea Parkins & Tom Rainey 2007 Duo Milano Long Song with Elliott Sharp 2007 Nothing Makes Any Sense No Fun with Giffoni Licht Ranaldo 2009 Coward Cryptogramophone 2009 Elevating Device Sounds Are Active with G.E. Stinson 2010 Dirty Baby Cryptogramophone 2010 The Celestial Septet New World 2010 Initiate Cryptogramophone 2012 Jazz Free There with Henry Kaiser 2012 Open the Door Public Eyesore with Elliott Sharp 2012 The Gowanus Session Porter with Thollem & Parker 2014 Room Mack Avenue with Julian Lage 2014 Macroscope Mack Avenue 2015 Radical Empathy Relative Pitch with Thollem & Wimberly 2016 Molecular Affinity Roaratorio with Thollem & Oliveros 2016 Lovers Blue Note 2018 Currents, Constellations Blue Note 2020 Gowanus Sessions II ESP Disk with Thollem & Parker 2020 Share the Wealth Blue Note 2025 Consentrik Quartet Blue Note with Laubrock, Lightcap & Rainey
With Acoustic Guitar Trio Year Title Label 2001 Acoustic Guitar Trio Incus 2009 Vignes Long Song
With Banyan Year Title Label 1997 Banyan CyberOctave 1999 Anytime at All CyberOctave 2004 Live at Perkins' Palace Sanctuary
With Quartet Music Year Title Label 1981 Quartet Music Nine Winds 1984 Ocean Park Nine Winds 1986 Window On the Lake Nine Winds 1989 Summer Night Delos
With Wilco Year Title Label 2005 Kicking Television: Live in Chicago Nonesuch 2007 Sky Blue Sky Nonesuch 2009 Wilco (The Album) Nonesuch 2011 The Whole Love dBpm 2014 Alpha Mike Foxtrot Nonesuch 2015 Star Wars dBpm 2016 Schmilco dBpm 2019 Ode to Joy dBpm 2022 Cruel Country dBpm 2023 Cousin dBpm
With other bands Year Artist Title Label 1985 Rhythm Plague Dressed for the Apocalypse Killzone Music 1991 Bloc In the Free Zone A&M1995Geraldine FibbersLost Somewhere Between the Earth and My HomeVirgin/Universal 1996 A Thousand Other Names A Thousand Other Names Birdcage 1997 Geraldine Fibbers Butch Virgin 2005 Rova::Orkestrova Electric Ascension Atavistic 2005 Solo Career Season Finale Box-o-Plenty 2006 Damsel Distressed Temporary Temporary Residence 2009 West Coast Modern Day Punk Rock Orchestra Correspondence Elastic 2010 Floored by Four Floored by Four Chimera Music 2010 Rova The Celestial Septet New World 2011 bb&c The Veil Cryptogramophone 2016 Rova Channeling Coltrane Electric Ascension & Cleaning the Mirror RogueArt 2017 Big Walnuts Yonder Big Walnuts Yonder Sargent House 2019 Cup Spinning Creature Northern Spy 2019 Exoterm Exits into a Corridor Hubro 2019 Radical Empathy Trio, Reality and Other Imaginary Places ESP Disk 2017 Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York Fukushima Libra 2019 Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York Entity Libra 2019 Stretch Woven Stretch Woven Alstro2025Trio of BloomTrio of BloomPyroclastic Records
As sideman Year Main Artist Title Label 1979 Vinny Golia Openhearted Nine Winds 1980 Tim Berne 7X Empire 1984 Julius Hemphill Georgia Blue Minor Music 1986 John Fumo After the Fact Nine Winds 1991 Dennis Gonzalez The Earth and the Heart Konnex 1993 Firehose Mr. Machinery Operator Columbia 1993 Vinny Golia Against the Grain Nine Winds 1994 Deborah Holland Freudian Slip Dog & Pony 1995 Vinny Golia Razor Nine Winds 1995 Mike Watt Ball-Hog or Tugboat? Columbia 1995 Mike Watt Big Train Columbia 1996 Gregg Bendian Gregg Bendian's Interzone Eremite 1996 Osamu Kitajima Beyond the Circle CyberOctave 1996 Joel Harrison 3 + 3 = 7 Nine Winds 1997 Vinny Golia Nation of Laws Nine Winds 1997 Mike Watt Contemplating the Engine Room Columbia 1997 Wayne Kramer Citizen Wayne Epitaph 1998 Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith Yo Miles! Shanachie 1998 Mary Lou Lord Got No Shadow Work 2000 Gregg Bendian Myriad Atavistic 2001 Gregg Bendian Requiem for Jack Kirby Atavistic 2001 Alex Cline The Constant Flame Cryptogramophone 2001 Steuart Liebig Pomegranate Cryptogramophone 2002 Jeff Gauthier Mask Cryptogramophone 2002 Mia Doi Todd The Golden State Columbia 2003 Carla Bozulich Red Headed Stranger Dicristina Stair Builders 2003 Rickie Lee Jones The Evening of My Best Day V2 2003 Noe Venable The World Is Bound by Secret Knots Petridish 2003 John Zorn Voices in the Wilderness Tzadik 2003 Scott Amendola Cry Cryptogramophone 2004 Vinny Golia One Three Two Nine Winds 2004 Blue Man Group The Complex Lava 2004 Carla Bozulich I'm Gonna Stop Killing DiCristina Stair Builders 2004 Lydia Lunch Smoke in the Shadows Breakin Beats 2005 Dean De Benedictis Salvaging the Past Spotted Peccary 2005 Wayne Peet Live at Al's Bar pfMENTUM 2005 Scott Amendola Believe Cryptogramophone 2006 Jeff Gauthier One and the Same Cryptogramophone 2006 The Autumn Defense The Autumn Defense Broken Horse 2006 Ramblin' Jack Elliott I Stand Alone Anti- 2006 Matt Ellis Tell the People Krow Pie 2006 Todd Sickafoose Blood Orange Secret Hatch 2006 Jeff Tweedy Sunken Treasure Nonesuch 2007 Eleni Mandell Miracle of Five Zedtone 2007 Alan Pasqua The Antisocial Club Cryptogramophone 2007 M. Ward To Go Home 4AD 2008 Steven Bernstein Diaspora Suite Tzadik 2008 Huntsville Eco, Arches & Eras Rune Grammofon 2008 Jeff Gauthier House of Return Cryptogramophone 2009 7 Worlds Collide The Sun Came Out Oxfam/Sony 2009 Bobb Bruno Dreamt On Vosotros 2009 Wadada Leo Smith Spiritual Dimensions Cuneiform 2011 Tinariwen Tassili V2 2011 Jeff Gauthier Open Source Cryptogramophone 2012 Jherek Bischoff Composed Brassland 2012 Jherek Bischoff Scores: Composed Instrumentals Leaf 2012 Billy Bragg & Wilco Mermaid Avenue Vol. III Nonesuch 2012 Lee Ranaldo Between the Times and the Tides Matador 2012 Martha Wainwright Come Home to Mama Cooperative Music 2012 Rufus Wainwright Out of the Game Decca 2013 Ben Goldberg Unfold Ordinary Mind BAG 2013 Yoko Ono Take Me to the Land of Hell Chimera Music 2013 Retribution Gospel Choir 3 Chaperone 2014 Buffalo Daughter Konjac-Tion U/M/A/A 2014 Bobby Previte Terminals Cantaloupe Music 2014 Jim Keller Heaven Can Wait Elisha James/Orange Mountain 2014 Cibo Matto Hotel Valentine Chimera Music 2014 Medeski Martin & Wood Woodstock Sessions Vol. 2 Woodstock Sessions 2015 Adam Rudolph Turning Towards the Light Cuneiform 2015 Scott Amendola Fade to Orange Sazi 2015 Ben Goldberg Orphic Machine BAG 2016 Ornette Coleman Celebrate Ornette Song X 2017 Jim Campilongo Live at Rockwood Music Hall NYC Blue Hen 2017 Linda Perhacs I'm A Harmony Omnivore 2017 Lee Ranaldo Electric Trim Mute 2018 Harmony Rockets Lachesis & Clotho & Atropos Tompkins Square 2018 Michael Leonhart The Painted Lady Suite Sunnyside 2018 Bobby Previte Rhapsody RareNoise 2018 Chris Lightcap Superette Royal Potato Family 2019 Ben Goldberg Good Day for Cloud Fishing Pyroclastic 2019 Kris Davis Diatom Ribbons Pyroclastic 2019 Michael Leonhart Suite Extracts Vol.1 Sunnyside 2019 Larry Ochs What Is to Be Done Clean Feed 2019 Wayne Peet What The? pfMENTUM 2019 Chris Stamey New Songs for the 20th Century Omnivore 2019 Tedeschi Trucks Band Beacon Bits 2019 Nugs.net 2020 Bobby Previte Music from the Early 21st Century RareNoise 2021 Julius Hemphill The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony New World
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