→ Selections from a decade of NM
Hantu ‘Zither Deluxe’
Cassette, Digital Download
NM056X, released 12th October 2023
Puzzlingly uncategorisable, 'Zither Deluxe' is nothing short of a post-minimalist masterpiece. A meticulous capture of the Hantu ensemble in peak form, recorded in two continuous takes over a single day. Influences from avant-garde and jazz forms pulse confidently through Hantu’s selected instrumentation, expertly subverting "world music" clichés in its simultaneous celebration and evasion of D'Cruz's “Asianness”...
Cloistral Sorrow ‘Cloistral Sorrow’
Cassette, Digital Download
NM050, released 24th May 2023
BUY
Debut from the duo of James Rushford and Harriet Morgan - a hallowed set of home-made hymns and pastoral performances. Fans of Morgan's work as autobiographical extreme noise artist Military Position and Rushford's slew of compositional offerings across labels such as Shelter Press, and Black Truffle may be blindsided by this startling and at times moving leap into traditional song form; gesturing at synthwave, wry medieval pop and radio days romance. Poetic sensibility, solicitous vocals and undeniable hooks paint a world of wistful confusion, tears and memories to melt the most savage hearts...
Fia Fiell ‘All In The Same Room’
Cassette, LP, Digital Download
NM020, released 7th May 2018
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A meticulously crafted capsule of intimate melodic descriptions across a timeline of personal tumult, realisation and ultimately, growth; a playful yet guarded sense of wonder informs the tones, the sparse arrangement and the care taken with the mix. Swells and cycles in which time seems to slow often give way to sheer power throughout the arc of this release however, while the artist herself encourages the listener toward an immersive higher volume experience than so-called 'ambient' music usually demands...
Maria Moles ‘Opening’
LP, Digital Download
NM059, released 18th January 2020
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Debut release from multi-skilled percussionist, 'Opening' contains two elongated solo percussion-based pieces, stunningly recorded and brightly framing her renowned ability for restrained precision. Her patterns, feel and phrasing can't help but feel infinitely biological in their relentlessness and restlessness - compellingly, she merges her impressive training and playing experience with a knack for summoning requisite breathing room and mysterious unpredictability. A pure flow of creative incandescence and rhythmic lyricism...
MP Hopkins ‘Misting’
CD, Digital Download
NM048, 11th August 2023
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Surgically constructed and tempered, Hopkins’ gentle signature hisses emit from more varied beacons across the spectrum when compared to the mid-range adventures inward on previous outings. In a more expansive realm, Hopkins wildly scratches out his unmistakable intimacies, frittering a gleaming treasure of detail at us to absorb...
Joe Talia, Andrew Chalk/Hanna Chetwin/Francis Plagne ‘Split’
Cassette, Digital Download
NM002, 20th May 2016
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Talia is one of the most respected, able and creative players in Australia’s adventurous music community – ‘12th Exit’ is a mystifying and magical circular drift through a cumulus realm of tones and obscured familiarity. Its skewed environmental constructions are as comforting as they are confounding as the 12 minute piece shifts its way through a spectacularly sedated fug.
Chalk is an undisputed peerless figurehead of quiet music and pastoral drone. Plagne’s canon swings between songwriting and a variety of other approaches, including group improvisation, instrumental abstraction and domestic musique concrète. Chetwin is an experimental filmmaker based in Australia. This one off collaborative session took place at Chalk’s home in 2013, in which a beautifully raw and unadorned performance from all three players glides effortlessly through a subconscious micro-verse of delicately mixed acoustic interplay and blissfully submerged drones...
Simon J Karis ‘Tracce Non-Funzionale’
Cassette, Digital Download
NM047, released 31st October 2022
BUY
A 5 track release of weighty, microwaved techno tracks from NM label head SJK...
Nina Buchanan ‘Highly Emotional’
Cassette, Digital Download
NM021, 7th May 2018
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Legendary barebones hardware approach to high resolution techno escapism from Naarm/Melbourne-based sound artist Nina Buchanan...
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