Monday, December 8th, 2014

Ninos Du Brasil – Sombra Da Lua

And Dylan rounds out Readers’ Week Day One with something that definitely isn’t Brazilian…


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Alfred Soto: This Italian duo fuses Brazilian percussion with a squelched sound courtesy of mixing desk tricks that recall Burial and Richard Villalobos. Suitable for headphone play.
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Iain Mew: I now know where to go if I want to test out some new headphones! I’m not entirely convinced of it as experience rather than demonstration, but Ninos make quite a merit of relentlessness in the end.
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Micha Cavaseno: Every corner of the world deserves a goth rave mess that’s actually not that fun to dance to, but just oozes “MOOD.”
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David Moore: To induce a panic attack, walk in lockstep to this song in an open, public space, preferably heavily populated with vaguely threatening strangers (tourists, maybe, or schoolchildren). Chase with Xanax and some Pantha du Prince in a small, comfortable hole. 
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Scott Mildenhall: It’s a very niche field, but “music to panic to” has rarely been better served. Thick, quick, clammy, claustrophobic and altogether intense, “Sombra Da Lua” takes the phrase “rattling around your head” to uncommon extremes. There’s not a pleasant note to speak of: from the same cloth as Thousand” and “Horse Power,” only not cut — just repeatedly and aggressively hit until it gave way.
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Jonathan Bradley: Hey, give the drummer some. No… no, not that much.
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Patrick St. Michel: Zoned out of this one pretty quickly, sorry. 
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Will Adams: A thunderous arrangement of percussion and warehouse bass. Like a museum piece, more for decoration than actual use.
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Anthony Easton: Layers of percussion, cleverly laddered into delicate matrices of pure form, on the edge of boredom in that neo-avant drone way, but with more variation. Ends with a delightful bell sound. It reminds me of the modernist grids of Brazilian master sculptor GeGo.
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Katherine St Asaph: Craggy subterranean atmosphere with a moody pulse. I am a philistine who hears tracks like these and dreams of vocal toplines and remix treatments, and what I hear over this is Goldfrapp’s “Thea.”
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Brad Shoup: I like this; it’s Todd Terje in a black hat. Just straight percussion with a little bit of natural sound tossed in: an infernal industrial monument with a mysterious power source.
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Josh Winters: A hedonistic celebration of primal instinct, where forces so wild and unruly drag you down into a descent so dark all you see is black. If Lord of the Flies ever gets another film adaptation, Ninos du Brasil would probably score themselves a gig worthy of their talents. 
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