Japanese experimental trio NISENNENMONDAI: Share new track and trailer from album produced by ADRIAN SHERWOOD
NISENNENMONDAI SHARE MORE MUSIC AND TRAILER FOR FORTHCOMING ADRIAN SHERWOOD-PRODUCED ALBUMSTREAM THE TRAILER AND TRACKAlbum title: #N/ARelease Date: 6th May 2016Label: On-U SoundFormat: 2LP // 2CD // DigitalCat No: ONU131
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“Minimalistic techno, thudding machine-pulse and whale-cry atmospherics achieved using just classic power-trio kit.” -NME
“This is music that beguiles and enchants, hypnotises and seduces, takes you into your consciousness and shoots you out of it. Crucially, this is music you can dance to.” - The Quietus
“Restraint and repetition urge the listener into an altered state of consciousness. This is a joyous sound that lifts and releases the spirit.” - The Wire"With walls of distortion and a pummelling rhythmic backbone that fluctuates between krautrock`s repetition and free-rock calamity, bassist Zai, guitarist Ma-Chan and drummer Hime have formed an unassuming juggernaut” - Dazed & ConfusedThe second music to be shared from the #N/A album, this edit of 12-minute closing track '#5' demonstrates the trio's uncanny ability to take the standard power trio set-up of guitar-bass-drums and produce all manner of otherworldly sounds. With a constant bass pulse and metronomic hi-hat keeping the horror movie tension of the track taut, whipcrack rimshots and spiralling shards of barely identifiable guitar noise disappear into a black hole of dub delay. This is ritualistic trance music for the dancefloor.
There's definite parallels to be drawn here with producer Adrian Sherwood's other contributions to the 'metal dance' genre: re-assembling Einstürzende Neubauten's "Yü-Gung" in 1985; helping Ministry reinvent their sound from synth-pop to menacing Electronic Body Music on the Twitch album (inspiring one half of Glasgow DJ duo Optimo in the process); working with seminal Sheffield synthesists Cabaret Voltaire; kickstarting Nine Inch Nails' career with his production work on the classic Pretty Hate Machine; even his own music as part of Tackhead - cut-up fragments of newsreels, noise and cavernous beats. Whilst Nisennenmondai's music is a world removed from these 80s industrial experiments, #N/A demonstrates Sherwood masterfully applying his dub production skills to another kind of metal machine music.
#N/A (literally, Nisennenmondai with Adrian Sherwood) is a new studio album which sees the cult Japanese trio filtering their epic motorik jams through the mixing desk of the legendary dub producer.
Nisennenmondai are three girls from Tokyo, Sayaka Himeno (drums), Yuri Zaikawa (bass) and Masako Takada (guitar), who have been playing instrumental music together since 1999. From their initial beginnings as a noisy no wave band openly referencing influences such as Sonic Youth, DNA and This Heat, they have since honed and streamlined their sound into a more minimalistic pulse with an emphasis on the hypnotic possibilities of repetition, creating a sound that can be likened to ‘organic techno’.
Much beloved by other musicians including Battles, Prefuse 73 and Chris & Cosey (Throbbing Gristle), in recent years they have made more connections to dance culture, in particular with their 2015 collaboration live and on record with electronic producer Shackleton.
Recording their new album with Sherwood has resulted in them sounding bigger than ever before, with a greater emphasis on small rhythmic details and subtle dub touches, reminiscent in places of the classic Basic Channel sound.
This international edition of the album includes 2 bonus ‘live dub mixes’. Whilst Adrian showed considerable restraint in his production job on the studio album, on a subsequent live date at Tokyo’s Unit club he was recorded deploying a wild array of FX tricks, dropping in splashes of cavernous reverb and space echo delay to the performance of two pieces from the band’s previous album N’.
The three members of Nisennenmondai met at their university and formed the band soon after. They mostly released music on their own Bijin label, with the compilation album Neji/Tori released by Norway's Smalltown Supersound in 2008, whilst N’ followed in 2014 on Blast First Petite. The band are known for their dynamic live show, and despite little mainstream media attention, have built a substantial international following. They have played dates in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Iceland, Poland, Portugal, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, UK and USA.
Described by allmusic's Heather Phares as "taking as much inspiration from the cool kids at school as they do from experimentalists like This Heat, The Pop Group, Sonic Youth, DNA and Neu!, Nisennenmondai compose raw and repetitive (post) punk instrumentals, which can be groove-oriented whilst also having a no wave/disco vibe. Himeno tirelessly pounds at her snare and bass drum while slashing her cymbals, while Takada adds layers of delay and clangy sounding distortion.”
Prefuse 73 said in an interview with Dazed & Confused: "John Stanier from Battles had told me that they were sick. They start to play. Next thing you know, these three tiny diminutive women were making us look like idiots because they were so incredible". The band were chosen by Battles to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas, that they co-curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England. Subsequently, Battles invited the band to tour with them in the states.
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“Minimalistic techno, thudding machine-pulse and whale-cry atmospherics achieved using just classic power-trio kit.” -NME
“This is music that beguiles and enchants, hypnotises and seduces, takes you into your consciousness and shoots you out of it. Crucially, this is music you can dance to.” - The Quietus
“Restraint and repetition urge the listener into an altered state of consciousness. This is a joyous sound that lifts and releases the spirit.” - The Wire"With walls of distortion and a pummelling rhythmic backbone that fluctuates between krautrock`s repetition and free-rock calamity, bassist Zai, guitarist Ma-Chan and drummer Hime have formed an unassuming juggernaut” - Dazed & ConfusedThe second music to be shared from the #N/A album, this edit of 12-minute closing track '#5' demonstrates the trio's uncanny ability to take the standard power trio set-up of guitar-bass-drums and produce all manner of otherworldly sounds. With a constant bass pulse and metronomic hi-hat keeping the horror movie tension of the track taut, whipcrack rimshots and spiralling shards of barely identifiable guitar noise disappear into a black hole of dub delay. This is ritualistic trance music for the dancefloor.
There's definite parallels to be drawn here with producer Adrian Sherwood's other contributions to the 'metal dance' genre: re-assembling Einstürzende Neubauten's "Yü-Gung" in 1985; helping Ministry reinvent their sound from synth-pop to menacing Electronic Body Music on the Twitch album (inspiring one half of Glasgow DJ duo Optimo in the process); working with seminal Sheffield synthesists Cabaret Voltaire; kickstarting Nine Inch Nails' career with his production work on the classic Pretty Hate Machine; even his own music as part of Tackhead - cut-up fragments of newsreels, noise and cavernous beats. Whilst Nisennenmondai's music is a world removed from these 80s industrial experiments, #N/A demonstrates Sherwood masterfully applying his dub production skills to another kind of metal machine music.
#N/A (literally, Nisennenmondai with Adrian Sherwood) is a new studio album which sees the cult Japanese trio filtering their epic motorik jams through the mixing desk of the legendary dub producer.
Nisennenmondai are three girls from Tokyo, Sayaka Himeno (drums), Yuri Zaikawa (bass) and Masako Takada (guitar), who have been playing instrumental music together since 1999. From their initial beginnings as a noisy no wave band openly referencing influences such as Sonic Youth, DNA and This Heat, they have since honed and streamlined their sound into a more minimalistic pulse with an emphasis on the hypnotic possibilities of repetition, creating a sound that can be likened to ‘organic techno’.
Much beloved by other musicians including Battles, Prefuse 73 and Chris & Cosey (Throbbing Gristle), in recent years they have made more connections to dance culture, in particular with their 2015 collaboration live and on record with electronic producer Shackleton.
Recording their new album with Sherwood has resulted in them sounding bigger than ever before, with a greater emphasis on small rhythmic details and subtle dub touches, reminiscent in places of the classic Basic Channel sound.
This international edition of the album includes 2 bonus ‘live dub mixes’. Whilst Adrian showed considerable restraint in his production job on the studio album, on a subsequent live date at Tokyo’s Unit club he was recorded deploying a wild array of FX tricks, dropping in splashes of cavernous reverb and space echo delay to the performance of two pieces from the band’s previous album N’.
The three members of Nisennenmondai met at their university and formed the band soon after. They mostly released music on their own Bijin label, with the compilation album Neji/Tori released by Norway's Smalltown Supersound in 2008, whilst N’ followed in 2014 on Blast First Petite. The band are known for their dynamic live show, and despite little mainstream media attention, have built a substantial international following. They have played dates in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Iceland, Poland, Portugal, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, UK and USA.
Described by allmusic's Heather Phares as "taking as much inspiration from the cool kids at school as they do from experimentalists like This Heat, The Pop Group, Sonic Youth, DNA and Neu!, Nisennenmondai compose raw and repetitive (post) punk instrumentals, which can be groove-oriented whilst also having a no wave/disco vibe. Himeno tirelessly pounds at her snare and bass drum while slashing her cymbals, while Takada adds layers of delay and clangy sounding distortion.”
Prefuse 73 said in an interview with Dazed & Confused: "John Stanier from Battles had told me that they were sick. They start to play. Next thing you know, these three tiny diminutive women were making us look like idiots because they were so incredible". The band were chosen by Battles to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas, that they co-curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England. Subsequently, Battles invited the band to tour with them in the states.
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