The Here Is the Night EP by Hunter Complex, which was originally released in December 2009, is now available in Spotify. The EP contains remixes and remakes of the track Here Is the Night by Garçon Taupe, Coen Oscar Polack and Spoelstra and an extended instrumental of the track Fashion Street, featuring Jantijn Prins (Psychon) on guitar and Wiechert Warntjes (former member of Quarles van Ufford and Morbide Eenheid) on saxophone. Click here to play it right now or click here to view all Narrominded releases on Spotify.
The last six days of October there is a thing called Leiden International Film Festival and this name is pretty much self-explanatory: it’s a lot of movies being shown in theaters throughout the city. All in the spirit of movies, on Saturday October 30 the Van Dooren Kafka Polack Spoelstra trio, with members from De Reizende Verkoper, Spoelstra, Boutros Bubba, Living Ornaments, Psychon and CSMD, will be playing live soundtracks accompanying scenes from several movies shown on the background. This will take place at OPEN, Aalmarkt 12-16, Leiden. Entrance is free and it will all be happening between 20.00 until 23.00.
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 Austrian e-zine Cracked reviews the album Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon: ‘Someday music archaeologists probably will look back and pronounce this the most important experimental album of the decade.’ Read the whole review here. The new Dutch blog Westerlingen is very enthusiastic about Katadreuffe‘s Quel Gargantua! EP. ‘A band we should keep an eye on.’ Read that one here.
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.
Perhaps it are the pictures of their athletic bodies on the cover of Slow Country For Old Men that got Psychon a review in the urban sports e-zine eRythropoetizinum, or maybe it’s because the guys of Psychon used a lot of hip hop beats on their new album. Anyways, eRythropoetizinum calls Psychon ‘great for some workout sessions’. Read the whole review here.
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!
