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01. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Geni / Tirta
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02. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Overtime
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03. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Planeker
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04. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Elders
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05. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Rollin
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ARTIST
ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH
TITLE
Elders
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BLACK TRUFFLE
CATALOG #
BT 086CD
BT 086CD
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
4/29/2022
Elders
is the debut release from
Ensemble Nist-Nah
, a nine-piece percussion group led by Nantes-based Australian drummer and percussionist
Will Guthrie
. The diverse group of French musicians that make up Ensemble Nist-Nah -- whose collective experience encompasses traditional Gamelan performance, contemporary composition, noise, jazz, and everything in between -- perform on drum kits, traditional and junk percussion, and a complete set of Javanese Gamelan instruments. Though building on the foundations of Guthrie's solo work with Gamelan instruments (
Nist-Nah
, BT057) and primarily performing his compositions, Ensemble Nist-Nah is a collective endeavor, propelled by a breathtaking enthusiasm that has seen the ensemble manage to rehearse, perform, and even tour Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic. From the first seconds of opening track "Geni / Tirta", it becomes immediately obvious that this is no dry academic exercise or exotic indulgence. Rapid arpeggiated figures are propelled by manically busy kit drumming while slow-motion melodic lines float above. After a series of abrupt tempo changes and fragmented unison passages that crossbreed the rhythmic intensity of the Balinese Kecak with the joyride of an
Ornette Coleman
head, the music slows to a monumental groove, equal parts Javanese court music and
Dark Magus
. Another sequence of thrilling divagations leads us to the unexpected guest appearance of acclaimed vocalist
Jessica Kenney
, who elaborates a haunting Javanese Bedhaya across a spacious backdrop of massive gong hits, shimmering cymbals, rustling bells, and gritty textures. The remaining pieces that make up
Elders
explore a dizzying variety of approaches, from the shifting rapid-fire muted textures of "Overtime" to the ghostly bowed tones and ominous swells of the title piece (developed from a track on Guthrie's solo
Nist-Nah
release), which gradually builds into waves of shuddering low resonance and asynchronous percussive clicks like a haunted clock mechanism. On the aptly titled "Rollin", virtuosic twin drum kits criss-cross errant metallophone patterns in propulsive polyrhythms, while "Planeker" manages to achieve a bizarrely effective fusion of
Harry Partch
and
Autechre
. Arriving bedecked in beautiful monochrome images of gongs drawn by ensemble member
Charles Dubois
,
Elders
is a feast for the ears: music that burrows deep into timbral and rhythmic possibility while possessing an intoxicating physicality and reveling in the joy of collective performance.
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