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Thursday 25th September, 2025
Out now, NM’s mercurial label head Simon J Karis’ has released a new album of spoken/sung voice and blasted musique concrète - ‘Smashed Platitudes Avillion, Abbotsford, Adelaide/Heaps Of Sorrow’.
A new album from Simon J Karis of spoken and sung crypticisms and sentiments, collaged with overblown sounds from locales throughout the broken travelogues navigated in 2025.
This work might seem like quite a turn sonically to listeners perhaps more familiar with his dramatic synthesizer texture studies or indeed his crook fascination with techno rhythm diversions, reflected in last year's 'So Little Sorrow' and his collaboration with Actress (UK) 'THRASH' respectively. But also, he does whatever the hell he wants with every release really so yes, here's an album of Karis breaking things and talking and singing and travelling, pushed into the red.
(Cassette orders will begin shipping Tuesday 30th September, 2025)
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Tuesday 23rd September, 2025
Bassist/composer Joseph Franklin’s NM follow up, accompanied by synth/sound artist Ben Carey in a high resolution live exhange - released 15th October.
Damn, we are so back, here's another one for you.
Today we announce the return of bassist/composer Joseph Franklin to NM in this wildstyle heat exchange, actioned live in collaboration with synthesist, composer and improviser Ben Carey. Modestly, this one does what it says on the box, however ‘a thousand tiny mutinies live’ revises motifs and prompts from Franklin’s solo bass and extended technique LP for NM in 2024 with spectacular license, captured in stunning high resolution audio.
Listen to a 10 minute excerpt and preorder the limited edition cassette now, exclusively at Bandcamp until the full release on 15th October.
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg, design/photography by SJK.
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Wednesday 24th September, 2025
Released today, streaming now - the new single 'op.1 ādam' by Aarti Jadu on NM.
Flittering open with its arpeggiated petals and subsuming sub bass tones, ‘op.1 ādam’ immediately breathes through Jadu’s layered autotune vocal gliding across the stereo field. As the bass then relents in waves, a constant arp progresses in elation, while obtusely room mic’d flute drifts between in calmness and bass clarinet snakes into focus.
This release follows the live debut of this piece at Soft Centre last month as pictured, featuring Jadu's ensemble collaborators Adam Halliwell on flute, composer and bass clarinettist Aviva Endean and longtime AJ collaborator Emma Ovenden on synths.
Stream on your preferred platform now or purchase a digital download at nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com
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Monday 8th September, 2025
Aarti Jadu joins NM with new single ‘op.1 ādam’ following ensemble appearance at Soft Centre festival.
In conjunction with last week’s incendiary ensemble performance at Eora/Sydney’s acclaimed Soft Centre festival program alongside Klein, Team Rolfes, Robin, Fox, Ryoji Ikeda, Malibu and more, we’re pleased to announce Aarti Jadu will release her second full length ‘SICFWYLF’ album on NM in 2026.
This is marked by the release of ‘SICFWYLF’s first single later this month, entitled ‘op.1 ādam‘ and features contributions from Mildlife’s Adam Halliwell, Emma Ovenden and Aviva Endean.
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Monday 8th September, 2025
Simon J Karis releases new album ‘Smashed Platitudes...’ and continues national gig run with Bonnie Mercer.
Last week, we announced this drastic left turn released 24th September, jammed up with writing, utterance and yes even some singing from NM label head Simon J Karis following some notable 2024 output, including collaborative projects with Actress (UK) and Andrew Chalk (UK).
Karis this time flings us the first documentation of his ongoing live performance project ‘Smashed Platitudes’, a rough-hewn collage of recordings on stages and in hotel rooms across Australia - a constant work in progress, auditing itself in real time in front of intimate audiences.
His creative process in these takes is indeed a collage approach in itself; a fractured and intuitive rearranging of concrète recordings captured in travelogue, some particularly jagged synthesis and lashings of noise interruptions to break up this constant jawing; because most notably, Karis’ voice is the constant thread throughout; we hear him speaking clearly and closely, sometimes wilfully obscured and surprisingly, often singing. His words are chosen immediately before us in the workspaces we’re let into, through automatic writing, both as pen on paper and incanted into the air.
See poster below for his visit to Hobart/Nipaluna this week with touring partner Bonnie Mercer, DM/email us for location details.
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