Nels Cline – “Consentrik Quartet” (2025)

Like so many recent major works, Nels Cline’s Consentrik Quartet is the result of the artistry that the pandemic inspired (the disc’s closer, the elegiac and eerily-titled “Time of No Sirens,” is a lens back to those chilling days). Cline initially organized the quartet for a performance at John Zorn’s Brooklyn venue The Stone in…