' a melange of improv rock, electronics and pan-global ethno-forgeries as
practised by Ege Bamyasi-era Can, enjoyable as well as acquainted with the
farther reaches of sound' (UK/Rock-a rolla)
' A ride worth taking!' (UK/Q Magazine)
' so simultaneously tremulous and brave it makes me want to heave big, gulping
cathartic sobs...' (UK/Plan B)
' not unlike Tortoise covering Zombie Zombie rooting through avant-rock
and tropicalia influences like Steve Reich and Tom Ze.' (UK/Uncut Magazine)
' if the idea of 70's italian session guys popping up Can for a soft-porn
crime movie soundtrack appeals then this is for you. (UK/Mojo)
' NLF3, je t'aime' (Bearded Magazine)
' Ride on a brand new Time' installe au fil des écoutes une addiction, qui
en dit long sur la sincérité et la violence de ses intentions et remet la
musique au centre du monde, là où ouir et jouir ne sont qu'un meme mot'(les
inrockuptibles/fev.2009)
' une maturité etonnante et une culture tous azimuts, une musique à la fois
primitive et savante sur laquelle on aimera autant rêver que danser '
(Trax/Avril 2009)
' NLF3 efface les epoques et les frontieres, passant allègrement de
l'afrobeat au krautrock. Une ode à la liberté en somme.' (Noise/Avril 2009)
' Voilà Battles battu sur son propre terrain" (Volume/Mars2009)
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W I R E
THE WIRE ADVENTURES IN MODERN MUSIC
may 2003
NLF3
viva!
by Martin Longley
The French NLF3 have been together for a decade. Between them they share a pool of keyboards,
guitars, bass and drums. They also run their own Prohibited label. Although
he had doubtless prefer to be credited as sound recordist, producer F.Lor
has previously been noted for his work with Yann Tiersen and Dirty Three.
The NLF3 espouse brevity as an art form, presnting a spangled sequence of
continualy shifting miniatures. Detail is a virtue, the trio's personal toyscape
infatuated with blips and blops, all things that chime, burble or ping, with
pourring analogue textures running across what amounts to a conventional
instrumental core.
Like a kitch This Heat, they merge grooves and improvisatory trimmings, making
a playful exploration of junked instruments, or a least faking such activities
with samplers. The mix of live and looped elements spreads and shunts sounds
across an extreme stereo field, the tiny details of peripherical chatter
often just as interesting as the central chatter. "Orfeu" might begin as
an Afro-froth pulse, but it is abruptly derailed by a fally-disc scramble,
then switches to a castrato sex funk loop. On "My Horses Never Run", it could
be Chris Cutler or Jaki Liebezeit drumming. Again, in a moment of potential
commerciality, "John C & JLG on a Boat" has a worringly serrated guitar
solo, while just about everything on "An The Chalk Breaks" is distorted in
the extreme. The NLF3 (trio) manage to filter their prime infuences into a unique sound of their own, a higly sensitive
approach of the very essence of tone, texture and rythm. Few groups are so consistently interesting."
*From 1999 till late 2005, NLF3's drummer was Ludovic Morillon. Jean Michel Pires is the new trio's drummer.
we like guitars, amps, feedback, tubes, fender rhodes, kalimba, afrobeat and drones, we like dancing on stage and singing like sorcerers, we like loops and live looping, tribal rythms and creeping electronics, we like soundscapes and cinema, cycles and tropical flavors, in the last years we have produced and performed music for Eisenstein's "Que viva Mexico" masterpiece, Lotte Reiniger's "Die Abenturen des Prinzen Achmed" great animated movie, experimental film "Ai" by Iimura, we are currently completing our fourth album, we have been busy touring the uk, europe, mexico, japan and russia, and we have a new EP now available ! all the very very best to you all!
NEW LIVE VIDEO (NLF3 @ WARP NIGHT, PARIS OCT 12th)
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