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NSR 012LP
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Molto Morbidi's debut album String Cheese Theory is filled with an organic warmth and has the feeling of quiet classics or cult records rediscovered years after their release. A certain sense of closeness, even intimacy, comes through the listening experience of String Cheese Theory, that lays claim to unbridled creativity, halfway between pop music and the avant-garde. Featuring Ed Dowie and Quentin Rollet.
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NSR 017LP
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Icelandic musician and visual artist Sunna Margrét presents her debut full-length album, Finger on Tongue, via No Salad Records. Citing influences from krautrock legends CAN and Neu!, outsider synth pop artist The Space Lady and electronic music pioneers Suzanne Ciani and Eliane Radigue, Finger on Tongue is a masterclass in experimental pop, capturing an authentic Icelandic essence through its electronic and spellbinding sounds. Some tracks offer softness and peace while others invite you to dance, and the album homogeneity is precisely ensured by the rigorous approach to writing.
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NSR 006LP
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Arto Lindsay's 7 Types of Ambiguity - A Parade is a stereo mix of an original sound installation that was installed at ECAL/University of Arts and Design, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2022 as part of a research project led by Thibault Walter and Stéphane Kropf called Phantom Power. The idea was simple, and yet the process and level of collaborative work implied was enormous: how to recreate a carnival parade -of the kind Arto had witnessed in the streets of Bahia in Brazil numerous times- inside a white cube and using only sound. How to replicate the complex intrications of those stories, heard or fantasized, the smaller blocs of musicians crossing the path of blasting sound systems mounted on trucks, those religious rhythms mingling with popular traditions, class and race struggle at street level « prime example of the proximity of sexuality and religion, of tradition and novelty and a place for true social innovation -- and the effect it all has on the bystanders that are completely part, or even become the subjects of the whole. Arto went to Salvador de Bahia with a narrative of a parade in his mind, and recorded excerpts in a terreiro, a temple of Afro-Brazilian religion, with four musicians, three of which he had previously worked with. Those mixed tracks were crafted into a sound sculpture directly in the room in Lausanne on a 27 channels immersive installation, adding layers of meaning within the room itself, hallucinations, weather patterns or places, like when the parade stops during a rain shower or gets so close to the ocean as to lose the sound of the percussions in waves. This composition was later remixed, the spiral of speakers on the floor of the room engraved on a vinyl, and the position of the listener defined for the experience of this record.
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NSR 001EP
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The Icelandic musician and visual artist Sunna Margrét has put together five experimental-ambient-braindance-electronica tracks on the Iceland Music Award nominated and Kraumur Awards winning EP Art of History. Co-released between her oceanic hometown of Reykjavik, Iceland, and her current alpine home base in Lausanne, Switzerland, Art of History brings together distant dreams of elvish druids and beats of a contemporary urban woman. We don't see with our eyes and we don't hear with our ears. Those are only receivers for us to then interpret what we are sensing. The music is heard, is sensed, is felt, is seen. It speaks of the experience of a sensible being, of a sensible life. It's a sensible writing.
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NSR 005LP
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Sunna Margrét releases Five Songs for Swimming out on No Salad Records. It is the first release since her award-winning EP Art of History that won the annual Kraumur award in 2019 and was twice nominated at the Iceland Music Awards for best song and best album of the year. Five Songs for Swimming includes five original songs and a cover. They follow a continuous thread of water and flow and yet Sunna Margrét keeps close to her influences of bizarre human interactions, present in her lyrics throughout the EP and borrowing the words of New York legends the Feelies on the last song "When To Go" cover. It is safe to say that the new release comes to life after loss occurs. This composition of music and lyrics is written in memory of Sunna Margrét's grandmother, Unnur Ágústsdóttir, who passed away in February 2021. She was a swimmer in her early life, a champion in Iceland in the '40s, as well as a soprano singer, teacher, bird lover and lifelong inspiration.
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