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October 23rd 2008

New Release -Pseudo: Gnostic Guitar ii
The search for truth proceeds in endless sequels. In ambient music, an idea turns into a line of melody, a wash of drone or a moment of silence. Pseudo's previous release, Gnostic Guitar Vol I, was a live improvisation recording in a single audio track. This prior release sought to find the truths in an improvised moment.

Gnostic Guitar Vol II introduces a spirit of compositional commitment to the method. Here one finds layered sounds, rhythm patterns, melodic phrases sometimes, voice speaking and whispers. A guitar, effects, and a speaking voice give rise to a melange of sound.

May 11th 2008

New Release -cHMa: Historia de Otoño

In Historia de Otoño, cHMa provides the listener with a survey of the autumnal moods which both soothe the listener and remind the listener that everything is in transition--a changing of the guard from heat to chill, from light to darkness.

February 29th 2008

New Release - ManB: Date

People speak blithely of "living in the moment". Self-help books and dayplan calendars speak of the "moment" as if it were an abstract idea and a mere policy for living.

In music, "living in the moment" can have a very literal, immediate meaning. ManB's "Date" arises from these literal moments.

November 20th 2007

New Release -David Stiernholm: Always--Ever

The thrill of sound moves us at NSI. We like music which recognizes the sheer joy in the experience of sound as sound. David Stiernholm, from Sweden, makes music which is the joy of the moment of sound creation. David's inspiration is speed--the quick creation and the intuitive experiment.

September 14th 2007

New Release -Hepepe - Tabula Smaragdina

Hepepe's calling card is that he makes eclectic electronica with a deep reverence for the traditional idioms which predate the harnessing of the diode and the capacitor to the cause of melody. Tabula Smaragdina is less an exploration of the jazz phantoms of the past, however, than a breathing set of electronica songs in its own right.

July 18th 2007

New Release -Pseudophone - Reach

Pseudophone strives to craft cinematic pieces that "tell a place"—a space so full of character a story will unfold there almost entirely by itself. Every tool in the Psueophophone studios—whether stringed or controlled by faders, whether banged on or dialed in—is musical. In Pseudophone's world every sound is sacred, and any sound can be composted. What is more sacred than a story?


June 15th 2007

New Release - The Thomas Nunnally Ensemble - The Tunnel at the End of The Light-

"The tired old saw proclaims that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train. Essayists and songwriters also explore the further paradox of the "tunnel at the end of the light". On this EP, the Thomas Nunnally Ensemble ride the hand-car down the rails in an recording about the way in which the process of living renders both sweet and bittersweet the transfers and railway stops that characterize coach travel in the human condition.

May 7th 2007

New Release - the Kirbi - Sunport

The Kirbi creates a series of melodic extravaganzas which thaw the winter cold. The title Sunport refers to a Spring awakening, when the sun comes out of its winter storehouse, removes its white veil, and whispers to all that life continues. Yet this album is not some entry into metaphoric sun-fantasy land, but instead are direct, accessible and yet not-at- all-obvious works of electronica fun.

April 15th 2007

New Release - NenTE - Eareye

Premeditation. Instinct. Improvisation. Design. ManB and Pseudo, from Italy, formed NenTE to explore the contours of spontaneity. They develop their live shows around a "leading theme", and then improvise upon that theme. The result, using this jazz methodology, is electronica of subtlety and power. Their music lives in the same spaces as Italian cinema--existential, complex and elusive.

March 16th 2007

New Release - Pseudo - Gnostic Guitar Volume 1

Just like the process of enlightment of the gnosticism, Pseudo composes with this "non-rational" approach. Within the sounds are the opportunity to work out different possible truths. The work revels in the process of receiving signals by the real world for further transcending, re-organizing them into instinctive systems capable to open new scenes of reality--maybe even to catch glimpses of a "supernatural project".

February 19th 2007

New Release - Verian Thomas- Massive

Behind every doorway, within or without, the place containing those things Verian Thomas titles "Massive" awaits. To enter it, one only need believe it is there. Within, light and dark are physical entities but the traditional rules of the good cowboy in the black hat and the bad in the black do not apply. Each is as flawed as the other. One must choose the right one to trust at the right moment to find the doorway that leads home.

NSI's own Gurdonark was recently interviewed by Bleepwatch about all manner of things. Check it our here.

February 13th 2007

New Release - Sascha Müller - Violet Dreams

In Violet Dreams, Sascha travels in the hazy, violet electro-horizons, where the colors shimmer as the sun rises and sets.

January 16th 2007

New Release - The Upside-Down Me- The Art Of War

So many times experimental musicians divide into the warring camps of noise and melody. The Upside-Down Me combines both strains on the field of chivalry for a jousting tournament which proves entirely satisfying. In a time when Satie, artificially adopted as the grandfather of ambient, has come to be given the reverence of a museum piece, the Art of War gives an original Satie-like attention to compelling melodies in the midst of atmospheric pads of intriguing light noise.

January 3rd 2007

New Release - Gurdonark - Tallgrass Canticle

This EP does not seek to address the literal prairie, nor the passing of scenic places and spiritual moments. Instead, the six pieces here seek to evoke the prairie within--the sprawling wash of inward fields, and the resonating hymn of presence in eternal life, in its mystery.



December 20th 2006

New Release - Verian Thomas- Miniatures

Miniatures seeks to open again the doorway into the pristine imperfection of childish things.

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