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 Nomo Incorporating new influences like Can, Eno and Mia, Nomo breaks through with a matured and developed sound. The band’s perpetual grooves are deeper than ever. The horns are set ablaze and analog synths give an electrified energy to the music. The homemade percussion arsenal is ramped up a notch, and the electric saw blade gamelan brings gong-like overtones into the tangled vine of synthetic and organic strands. The band taps into its full orchestral potential—the arrangements are filled with timbral variety, as the textures of the percussion meld with the horn section.
With homemade, wild, Morton Subotnick-like, percussive loops on Ghost Rock serving as the framework for the compositions the band were freed up to experiment with different ideas and a bigger, more orchestral, sound was born. Helping Nomo achieve this new direction were some heavy rhythmic contributors. Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph lent their percussive mastery to several tracks and Josh Abrams fills out the low end on “Rings.”
The band has toured incessantly since the 2006 release New Tones, which garnered much critical acclaim and ended up on top 10 lists like NPR, Gilles Peterson and Global Rhythm. The band has performed over 150 live concerts since the album, touring North America and Europe including stops at Bumbershoot, Pitchfork Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, SXSW, and WOMEX. Able to fit anywhere (literally and figuratively)—they’ve shared a stage with everyone from Earth Wind and Fire, to Konono No.1, to Sharon Jones, to Dan Deacon.
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