Title: Above and beyond
Comments: Truly, an achievement in noise. Beautiful package, 180g vinyl, you will not have buyer''s remorse. Can''t blather about the sounds because opinions about art mean nothing, but I can certainly recommend this piece highly.
Novello avant metalhead Julian Cope, Nondor Neva joined heavy, classic and contemporary fantasy literature. Inevitable with him a close encounter of the third kind ...
Nondor Neva
[If you are the photographer of this photo click here] 2009
With Labyrinth, Nondor Neva mate Mick Barr pushed the matter of brutalprog gentaccia as Pink & Brown, and Lightning Bolt to the Wild Blue Yonder. Then we hit the explosive mixture of wild free ipertecnicismo rock and avant-metal blasting from the results. The same charge that the Lightning Bolt last album left the room for a playful dimension, present since the beginning of the band Providence. We then contacted Nondor, this collaboration has strongly supported, we faced the classic character with the musical life divided into two: one before and one after a shock that caused him to find metal in the highest expression of his peculiar idea of music and the world.
The first part of his story is set in the Rhode Island School of Design where, until 1992, and the boy stays studiacchia narrowly missing the start of the experience Fort Thunder (1995) and the birth of Load Records (early '00) , the ground reality which will develop the most influential of the underground U.S. in recent years, both in music (Lightning Bolt, Black Dice, prurient all have them at least their early days) and artistic (Forcefield, Paper Rad ... and aesthetics and playful lysergic that is headquartered in Providence). When I was a student in Providence, said there was no way the audience for avant-garde metal. Only hardcore bands like Drop Dead and The Wurst. And then I was strangely similar to a music that was celebrated later with the Lightning Bolt ...
Drummer leaves from the school of Design and after a brief spell in his native city, NY, took home in Chicago in the middle of no-wave revival, the golden age for labels such as Bulb and Skin Graft Records. Meet Weasel Walter in an early incarnation of the Flying Luttenbachers and the two become friends not only by a shared spirit of provocation, but especially for an unhealthy passion for metal. Soon they started playing together and, among other smaller projects that see them together (it is worth recalling the brutal no-wave Hatewave) registered on behalf of The Many Moods Of Marlon Magas with an unsuspecting Aaron Dilloway on drums, still far from the apocalypses badged Wolf Eyes. During those years, the mission focuses Nondor sonic: a mixture of heavy metal, contemporary classical brutal (Xenakis, Ligeti), literature and visual arts (William Gibson, PK Dick and Giger) finally put the foundations under the classic diagnosis drugs lisergiche . I listened as a boy and we only industrial and electronic fun of punk and heavy metal industrial assholes tagged as stupid and trivial. Then after an experience with LSD realized that was the true death-metal techno: Techno Bionics. I felt then that a biological organism that makes art as if car was more than a biological organism that uses a machine to mimic biology ... Everything around us is a system of machines, and be like a machine means to harness the laws of nature. The most erroneous conception of humanity is that technology is anthropogenic. Nothing is anthropogenic, and nothing is created. So you can choose to use a machine to make art or be the machine that makes art. The revelation is one of those a la Julian Cope and the like that ensues: a certain point - from her album Wooden Music Machine (alien sonatas recorded with a computerized floor) then prgetto UNDRSKOR (drums and strings) to duet with Mick Barr - the drummer is looking into music that certain "feel bionic."
In 2004 in Washington DC Weasel shared a date with Orthrelm and told me this brutalprog duo and their "perfect music". When I heard was something like what was in my head was immediately passed, I knew that Mick was my guitar. Weasel gave me his number and I called him talking excitedly to this new form of extreme metal that was non-repetitive kicking in my head and calling in the West, in Oakland where I had just moved. Barr reaches Nondor in California but ours is still too invasive to make something so good and the guitarist took the opportunity to shake hands and other tools by opening a parenthesis with the most prepared and Flying Luttenbachers Zack Hill. I was still up in the heavy metal lifestyle, writes. Do not sleep for days, I turned amateur porn and playing the drums at all hours. Played with their music which I had imported, but without me, we capitalized amused. It 'a matter of time. When the two finally take the measures Rhapsodik Bitonality born, five pieces published in low fidelity mp3 netlabel for Brutalprog, a CD-R ugEXPLODE, Rainbow Supremacy, and finally Labyrinth is definitely the best recording quality for that content.
There is an ineffable common space between us, which is very advanced at the same time that adolescent regression. Everything we play is improvised and never discuss the special music during the sessions, but I think that "improvisation" is not the appropriate term for what we do. It is as if our compositions were automatic, like music that has always existed of which we are simply the means by which it may occur ... This is devotional music, we subordinamo our ego to the forces of nature
Postponed from 2009, now ready for public renunciation. Nandor Nevai's unused vocal (and percussive) contributions to TLASILA's The Wigmaker in 18th Century Williamsburg album, posited within (extremely) sympathetic late 60s/early 70s Christian folk arrangements. As splendid as it sounds...
Edition of 15.
Really love your music! I don't know why you didn't want to release a downloadable version of Rainbow Supremacy, I guess you have your reasons.
BUT I HAVE TO ASK, BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME AND I NEED IT.
Thank you.
Rasmus Gunnarson, Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:01 AM
Aside from the late start, everything at the show was going smoothly until Aborted Christ Childe came on. Basically they're a bm band from the early nineties that released one demo, and thats it. I guess some kvlt thing was to be expected, but instead a guy in platform shoes and some extremely drunk guy just screwed around. It was pretty funny I guess, but a big waste of time. The drunk drummer ended up pushing over the drum kit, and then later on started banging the mic on the drum and yelling into it.
review of the matchitehew assembly
Cy Thoth at our KFJC session Wolcott's site
March 22 Echo Curio w/ David Scott Stone & Faraday Trippers with Sleepwalkers Local
March 25 KFJC San Jose, CA live mic afternoon
March 25 Hemlock Tavern San Fransisco, CA w/AlQeada & Bank for Christ
March 26 21 Grand Oakland, CA w/ Orcutt & Kolovos Ettrick
March 27 Synchronicity Los Angeles, CA w/ Orcutt & Kolovos
Nondor Nevai performs with MICK BARR (!!) BARR-NEVAI will do several dates in early March TBA to support the release of their third and best album "LABYRINTHA"
February 3, 2010
Death By Audio
Brooklyn, NY
BJ Rubin and Weasel Walter present a night of music and comedy feat. Nondor Nevai, Puttin' on the Ritz, Sexy Thoughts, Odysseus, Architeuthis Walks On Land, Michael Gallope, Matt Mottel, Moppa Elliott, Sarah Lipstate and Carolin Contillo, Tim Dahl, Matt Mottel, Cat Tyc a quick documentary of the evening
FULL BLOWN A.I.D.S just finished recording an ep at DEVILS FORK. Nondor mic'ed Seth Putnam's guitar with 3 mics and then had Seth overdub his guitar (downtuned to F) 2 more times for a total of NINE ULTRA-CRUSHING GUITAR TRACKS. The new material sounds like an 8000 POUND FROWN. It's UNFAIR to living things. Before he left for Boston, Seth also laid down some bloodcurdling fucked-pig guest vokills on the still-being-mixed NO MOR MUSIK LP, a noisecore christening of sorts.