The Dutch magazine Fret reviews three Narrominded releases in their January/February issue. On Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World: ‘This other other green world doesn’t make you happy; hopefully this gloomy undertone isn’t a prediction for the near future. But besides that, this compilation is cool, relaxed, deep and groovy.’ [read more] They were a little less enthousiastic about Slow Country for Old Men by Psychon: ‘A carefully composed diary that never actually gets exciting, but nonetheless is nice to listen to.’ [read more] However, they recommend Korrels by Living Ornaments: ‘A firm and powerful piece of work.’ [read more] Belgian e-zine Kwadratuur is also very excited about Korrels: ‘The two sound doctors behind this project are very talented.’ And last but not least, the radio program Beautiful Extremes again played some Narrominded tracks: Here Is the Night (Another Version by Spoelstra) by Hunter Complex from the Here Is the Night EP and Huppy Capsule by Garçon Taupe from Split LP #4. Listen to the fragment from the broadcast on January 19 in the player below.
‘We go cloud-sailing, gazing into the far miles of the sky ahead with a delicate, heavenly spray on our faces, which soon overwhelms and overtakes the earspace. A downpour!’ Now that’s a beautiful to describe the track Under Trees It Rains Twice by Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken. Read more in the review of their album The Language of Mountains Is Rain on the British website Sonomu. ‘Things are buzzing again around the Narrominded label’, writes the magazine Gonzo (circus) in their review of the new records by Living Ornaments and Psychon. They say that Living Ornaments make music with a clearer goal than Psychon, which is more fragmented, but nonetheless of high quality.
The radio program Beautiful Extremes, online radio by Studio 80, played the tracks Rampetampen by Living Ornaments from their new album Korrels and Zawinul / Lava by Puin + Hoop from Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World. Listen to the fragment from the broadcast on October 27 in the player below.
Byron Coley and Thurston Moore call the Split LP by Mats Gustafsson and Cor Fuhler ‘amazing shit’. Read more here. The German student magazine Unikat reviews Katadreuffe’s Quel Gargantua! EP and thinks they are a band with a ‘trademark sound’. Read the whole review here. Dutch blog Eclectro says that Korrels by Living Ornaments ‘offers a refreshing look on idm, electro, ambient and techno’. More here. And finally, the free mp3 music culture magazine Phlow on Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon: ‘fluidity is the key-word’. Read that one here. The Psychon album was also added to the 3voor12 Luisterpaal.
The radio program Beautiful Extremes, online radio by Studio 80, played the tracks The Big Ship by Coen Oscar Polack from Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World and Onheilszwanger by Living Ornaments from their new album Korrels. Listen to the fragment from the broadcast on October 6 in the player below.
The radio program Beautiful Extremes, online radio by Studio 80, played the tracks Nanamissouri by Psychon from the album Slow Country For Old Men and Dagjesmensen by Living Ornaments from the album Korrels. Listen to the fragment from the broadcast on September 29 in the player below.
Vital Weekly, the oldest online source for music reviews, reviews the new albums by Psychon and Living Ornaments. They call Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon music with ’hip hop like rhythms and lots of wacky vocal samples, guitars, ambient doodling, psychedelica that strangely enough sounds all pretty coherent.’ And Korrels by Living Ornaments ‘armchair dance music’. Read the whole review here.
The Dutch website Subjectivisten / Caleidoscoop reviews the new releases by Psychon and Living Ornaments. On Korrels by Living Ornaments: ‘Everything they let you hear on this record is of very high quality and made with passion, ear and eye for details and a sparkling elegance.’ On Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon: ‘A work that leaves a lasting impression, is mesmerizing and special and shows the strength of the Narrominded label and the people behind it.’ Read the whole reviews here. Thanks for the very kind words!
Narrominded presents new albums by trusted Narrominded artists: Living Ornaments and Psychon. Both groups have been active on the label for almost a decade and with their new work they show they still have an absolute fresh and a very own vision on music. About Living Ornaments: With their previous record Vlokken (2006) Living Ornaments created a classic in Dutch electronica. Korrels is the second album by the duo and has, besides the trusted elements like guitars, piano and broken samples, an important role for synthesizers. About Psychon: It was 2004, when the album Apocalypse Has Been Dubbed The Weekend Pill was released, when we last heard from Psychon. Now, five years later, Slow Country For Old Men is completed and it has been worth the wait. Nothing has changed in the eccentric complexity of the music of Psychon and the eclectic mould of all sorts of musical styles is also back. Both records are now available on cd as well as free mp3 download.
The second edition of our monthly audio show at cut-up.com is now online. The theme of the mix is ‘male duos’ and coincides with the release of the Living Ornaments record Korrels that will be out on Narrominded this week. The show was mixed by Lars Meijer and features an audio column by music journalist Peter Bruyn about Apple, oysters and Pan Sonic. Click here to stream/download the show and go to our NMFM-page for previous audio shows.
