As an instrumental octet, NOMO have been absorbing some wilder influences than the terrific combination of Afro-funk and spiritual jazz that colored their previous album New Tones. Not that there's a dynamic shift in sound, as if abandoning their merging of world music with jazz arrangements. "All The Stars" percolates with Gamelan tones and rhythms, as an over-amplified kalimba saturates the beginning in waves of textual, metallic noise. "Round The Way" is a downtempo Afrobeat shuffle, giving the tenor saxophone plenty of freedom to wail and open up. But its the album opener, "Brainwave" -where an actual brainwave monitor is looped to contagious effect- where you see NOMO expanding its creativity. Taking in the early electronic manipulations of Morton Subotnic, the theoretical notions ambience penned by Brian Eno and the driving propulsion of Can as influences, Ghost Rock blends them naturally into the layout of their existing music blueprint, dazzling you with the structures they construct. A remarkable push forward!
NOMO - All The Stars
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