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01. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Gerak Maju
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02. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Strollabout
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03. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Bleed
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04. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Pasang
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05. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Spilla
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06. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Snakelike
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07. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Ghosty Klang
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08. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Frogzit
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09. Ensemble Nist-Nah - Uncle
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ARTIST
ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH
TITLE
Spilla
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BLACK TRUFFLE
CATALOG #
BT 130LP
BT 130LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
6/20/2025
LP version. Black Truffle presents
Spilla
, the second album from Nantes-based
Ensemble Nist-Nah
, 48 minutes of music for Gamelan, drum kits, wood and metal percussion instruments, and plucked strings that will surely count as one of the most electrifying records you hear. Founded by the Australian drummer/percussionist
Will Guthrie
in 2019, continuing the explorations begun in solo form on
Nist-Nah
, the ensemble (eight or nine core members with occasional guests) has been consistently active in the half-decade since: composing, rehearsing, recording and touring Europe (with a mass of equipment in tow) to great acclaim.
Spilla
tracks the continuing evolution of the project since the recording of their first album,
Elders
(BT 086CD). The two sides of this record document two different iterations of the group, and the members' compositional input has increased: each side contains one piece by a member other than Guthrie. It has become clearer than ever that Ensemble Nist-Nah is not an attempt at a European Gamelan ensemble but rather a hybrid percussion ensemble that uses instruments from a Javanese Gamelan alongside other percussion to perform original music informed by a variety of South East Asian music but also by everything from free jazz to contemporary hip-hop: while
Nist-Nah
and
Elders
both featured traditional Javanese pieces, on
Spilla
the only tune not generated by a member of the group is by Guthrie's long-time musical hero and occasional collaborator
Roscoe Mitchell
. The epic closing track presents a take on Roscoe Mitchell's "Uncle," performed by the
Art Ensemble of Chicago
on their classic
Urban Bushmen
live album. Where the Art Ensemble used Mitchell's dirge-like melody as a jumping off point for virtuosic improvisational flights, Ensemble Nist-Nah rethink the piece as a near-static dialogue between the monumental, slow-moving sequence of unison tuned percussion notes and a textural cloud that grows in richness and intensity from whispering cymbal rolls into a mass of gong overtones and bowed metal. Beautifully recorded and mixed,
Spilla
arrives in a sleeve decorated with core member
Charles Dubois
' drawings of cymbals and gongs. Against the backdrop of a wider musical landscape dominated by over-produced electronic slop and bland harmonic wallpaper, Ensemble Nist-Nah stands out as a reminder, vital and unpretentious, of the joys and possibilities of human beings playing instruments together.
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