Octavia Butler, Sadat X, King Crimson, De La Soul, Lee Scratch Perry, KRS-One, Sun Ra, Portishead, Ursula Rucker, Soundgarden, Guru, Curtis Mayfield, Mega Demus, Last Emperor, Pharoah Sanders, Killah Priest, Ghostface, Mad Professor and Madlib
NIMINUMTEK have been working together since 2004. What started off as a one song collaboration turned into a two man musical movement with all sides covered. NIM NOMADIC stays writing about the trials and tribulations of humanity and MINIMUM TEK provides the canvas and backdrop for lyrics that bite the soul.
nim has been writing consistently for 18 years and has several songs with Mega Demus who produces for The Last Emperor. minimum has been playing the guitar for 18 years and is a member of the revolutionary band Outernational who was recently featured in the Village Voice and MTV-online.
Together their music travels from soulful melodies to spaced out explorations; from sampled drums to acoustic strums. They are humbled to be compared to predecessors such as Kool Keith and Saul Williams but are eager to create something incomparable...
What up guys? I was just looking over myspace pages of people I met at Living Room a few years ago and I just noticed that you guys have the pic that I took of the both of you up on your page. Hope all is well. Much love!
To all jazz musicians, visual artists, and everyone who has not forgotten what was done to the people of New Orleans:
On Sunday, Sept. 3, to mark the 1-year anniversary of Katrina, the NYC chapter of The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime and SALAAM Theatre, would like to join with jazz musicians to march through the streets of Manhattan. We will begin with a dirge, marching solemnly in mourning of those who were killed, criminalized, and abandoned at the hands of the Bush administration. Then we will burst forward to a joyous New Orleans beat as we declare that we will NEVER FORGIVE or FORGET, and WE WILL DRIVE OUT THIS REGIME. We would like to begin in Harlem on Sunday, at 11:30 AM, going from church to church, gathering people as mass lets out
...One year ago, we were outraged to see the people of New Orleans stranded on roof tops for DAYS.
...We were outraged to see them treated like criminals with shoot-to-kill orders placed on them; 1, 339 killed not just by the storm but at the hands of officials sent in to restore order.
And now, one year later, not much has changed. Instead of being stranded on roof tops, the majority of Black people displaced are stranded in cities, spread across the country and unable to return home. It is an outrage that residents from various New Orleans housing projects are not allowed a Right to Return. Their homes, still standing and fixable, are surrounded by fences and barbed wire. It is outrageous that there are bodies that are still being found in abandoned homes, that there are people who are still missing, and the Find Family Assistance Center is shutting down regardless of that fact.
So, on this one-year anniversary, we will remember New Orleans in this most appropriate way, in their own tradition.
TO GET INVOLVED: Participate in event, help organize other musicians, develop visuals, or volunteer your musical talent on the day, CONTACT: Osage Bell at 212-518-1581, or Quetzal at quetzalmlm@yahoo.com
Whats Good my dude...? Its been a minute since we last met... this experience that Im pushing.. its more than just getting a check... maybe thru this music biz we could later connect... but 4 now much respect 2 the brothers niminumtek... Get at me...
sorry that i couldn't come to support you guys. hopefully next time and i'll send you more pics by the end of the week. got a new job so i't taking up lots of my time.
sweet...yeah, got to hang out w/ him a lil bit outside the club...
btw...do you dudes need a place to crash in NC when you come thru? Cuz you know I got you...maybe we can actually get to the beer store before it closes this time, and pick some gee-tarrr....
me and kalonji want to good the show in Brooklyn. Remember kalonji he was in GED and the youth leadership for a minute. do we have to buy tickets in advance? get back to me on that.
