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Ghost Rock | 
 enlarge | Artist: Nomo
Label: UBIQUITY RECORDS
Category: Music
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 16421
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 11230
UPC: 780661123026
EAN: 0780661123026
ASIN: B0017V8ABC
Release Date: June 17, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Brainwave | | • | All the Stars | | • | Round the Way | | • | Rings | | • | My Dear | | • | Ghost Rock | | • | Last Beat | | • | Three Shades | | • | Nova |
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Product Description
This record owes as much to Can, Eno, and MIA as it does to Kuti, Francis Bebey, and Funkadelic. There's no loss of steam as this Michigan collective incorporates new influences. NOMO breaks through with a matured and developed sound that's fully their own. They've shared stages with Earth Wind And Fire, Konono No. 1, Sharon Jones, and Dan Deacon. RIYL: Konono No. 1, Can, Fela Kuti, Charles Mingus, MIA, Radiohead.
Album Description
Ghost Rock is the new album from the Michigan-based collective NOMO. This is not Afrobeat, nor revivalist funk. This record owes as much to Can, Eno, and MIA as it does Kuti, Francis Bebey, and Funkadelic. The horns are set ablaze and analog synths beam an electrified energy into the music. The homemade percussion arsenal is ramped up a notch, and the electric sawblade gamelan brings gong-like overtones into the tangled vine of synthetic and organic strands. With the loops on Ghost Rock serving as the framework for the compositions the band were freed up to experiment with different ideas and a bigger, more orchestral, sound was born. Helping NOMO achieve this new direction were some heavy rhythmic contributors. Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph lend their percussive mastery to several tracks with Drake's fiery drumming propelling All the Stars to new heights.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Disappointing November 29, 2008
Heard the group on NPR and ordering this CD - doeosns't sound like anything we heard during the show.
 Disappointed September 16, 2008
I heard the interview on NPR and was excited about the group. I bought the CD and it was odd rather than exciting.
 Tightening up the loose ends June 22, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
NOMO's previous effort, the brilliant New Tones, relishes in a swaggering "live" shuffle of acoustic percussion, tape-bleed, shimmying horns and lugubrious tempos. This time around, the band tightens up those loose ends, harnessing the rhythms into edited sequences, boosting the tempos, injecting more Funk into the mix and largely eschews the Balinese gamelan-like feel in favor of electric mbiras. Compare and contrast aside, how is it? The prominent horn section is still spot-on and a bit more mature, showcasing virtuosity across the disc, but the draw of this band, that which gives their music a unique, compelling and immediately gratifying personality, has always been the organic, raw nature - the occasional stray note and all. Perhaps these are live jams translated in the studio, but the dancier (more East African than Carl Craig), more mechanical nature is something fans will need to acclimate to. Not worse, not better: just different. Let it stew for a bit.
 A giant leap forward ... June 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
An amazing step forward for NOMO. More edge and a bit more electronics that makes Ghost Rock sit right in between greats like Miles Davis, Can, Eno and M.I.A. - Yea, it's that good. Check this out!
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