Initiate is the fourth recording by The Nels Cline Singers and Cline's seventh release as a leader on Cryptogramophone. Initiate documents a remarkable three-day recording session at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley and The Singers' first live concert recording at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco. Throughout the beautifully designed Digipak are six photographs of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, by photographer Simon Norfolk, striking visual representations of the power of Initiate. 1.18 trillion electron volts and counting.

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Track Listing (click linked titles for mp3)

Audio CD I

1.	Into It	[2:51]
2.	Floored	[5:04]
3.	Devining	[7:37]
4.	You Noticed	[2:53]
5.	Red Line to Greenland	[8:57]
6.	Mercy (Supplication)	[6:37]
7.	Grow Closer	[6:45]
8.	Scissor/Saw	[3:41]
9.	B86 (Inkblot Nebula)	[2:10]
10.	King Queen	[7:15]
11.	Zingiber	[3:51]
12.	Mercy (Procession)	[7:00]
13.	Into It (You Turn)	[2:55]

Audio CD II

1.	Forge	[8:20]
2.	Fly Fly	[11:25]
3.	Raze	[8:08]
4.	And Now the Queen	[5:35]
5.	Blues, Too	[7:13]
6.	Thurston County	[9:14]
7.	Sunken Song	[7:05]
8.	Boogie Woogie Waltz	[14:25]

Musicians
Nels Cline
Scott Amendola
Devin Hoff

Special guests (on disc one):
David Witham
Yuka Honda

Special guests (on disc two):
Greg Saunier
Satomi Matsuzaki
John Dieterich

Production Credits
Produced by David Breskin

Executive Producer - Jeff Gauthier Recorded by Ron Saint Germain
Disc one: Mar. 23-25 2009 at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley
Disc two: Sept. 3 2009 Live at Cafe du Nord, San Francisco
Mixed by Ron Saint Germain with Nels + DB
Sept. 24-30 2009 at Saint's Place
Mastered by Joe Gastwirt Mastering
Color Photography of the Large Hadron Collider @ Cern by Simon Norfolk
Live Singers photos by Peak
Design by Spottswood Erving
Layout by Gareth Jiffeau

all compositions by Nels Cline
(Nebsonic Music ASCAP - administered by BUG Music)