Nomo / Invisible Cities
Album: Invisible Cities   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Nomo   Added:Jun 2009
Label:Ubiquity Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-07-05 Pull Date: 2009-09-06 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Aug 30 Aug 23 Aug 2 Jul 26 Jul 19 Jul 12
Airplays: 2 3 2 1 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Aug 09, 2018: No Cover, No Minimum
Nocturne
4. Apr 26, 2013: No Cover, No Minimum
Crescent
2. Mar 16, 2017: No Cover, No Minimum
Crescent
5. Feb 03, 2012: No Cover, No Minimum
Crescent
3. May 23, 2014: No Cover, No Minimum
Crescent
6. Dec 09, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
Crescent

Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2009-07-17
Afro beat, Fela Kuti influenced, named for Hideo Nomo Japanese baseball player, home brew instruments & electronics, from Ann Arbor MI. Videos on www./last.fm/music/Nomo very cool group, hope they make it to SF soon.
****1: 6:04 fast, very cool wall of sound, almost drone with wailing sax, cool Fela Kuti Afro beat percussion, mellows at 5 min
***2: 3:14 great percussion, bass intro, then wailing brass
3: 3:43 Afro beat, driving percussion lots of wailing brass
***4: 6:50 mellow mid to fast percussion & flute thing
5: 5:36 mellow Afro pop percussion, lots of brass
****6: 5:22 cool sounds from e guitar?? brass & percussion, chorus or electronics. Great mixing of sounds into an almost drone. Very cool tune.
***7: 3:49 mellow screaming blend almost drone.
8: 3:43 brass'& instrument noodling, at end almost foghorn sax
9: 4:10 electric kalimbas, low chorus chants : D  Farrell   07/2009


Track Listing
1. Invisible Cities   5. Patterns
2. Bumbo   6. Ma
3. Waiting   7. Banners On High
4. Crescent   8. Elijah
  9. Nocturne