Wednesday 02.03.10: CLUB NME with NOMO / ORGONE

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On last year’s Ghost Rock, NOMO established their own brand of future funk, built on hypnotic grooves comprised of drums and a huge collection of electrified, homemade likembes and scrap metal. The horn section, once the thundering heart of the band, took on a different role, settling into spaced-out dialogue with the rhythms– leader Elliot Bergman’s more conversational horn charts recalled Charles Mingus and Sun Ra in their perfectly pitched balance between structure and disorder. Invisible Cities serves as something of a breath-catching moment for a band that’s taken a giant leap on each of its albums, bringing some of the thunder back while further elaborating on the progress made on Ghost Rock.

Invisible Cities is the exact record NOMO needed to make at the point in their evolution. It consolidates all their gains and nicely sums up their output to this point, and as much as you can point to influences and basic kinship with other artists, the music NOMO are now making is very much their own thing. NOMO’s facility with both rhythm and tunefulness also makes it easy to follow them as they head down their own path. If you’ve come this far with the group, Invisible Cities won’t disappoint, and it’s also a pretty great place to start. – LA Record

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