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6/01/2019

Nick R 61 – Into The Mind (2019)




  • Noise-hop 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Art music 
  • Field recording 
  • Organic electronica 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Trip-hop 
  • Avant-hop 
  • Drone 
  • Musique concrète 
  • Lo-fi

Comment: as I assumed yesterday no one – neither Trump nor the Left – can save this world. In fact, it is truly childish to set up barricades against each other by the both sides. Something rational and viable can be found from views of the both sides. However, all the saving decisions must be done by us by ordinary people. Only we can bring to pass a silent and green revolution by minimizing our consumption and harmful habits. We shall have to get rid of our corrupted minds and beforehand of noises and wastes all of which is related to excessive consumption of materials and superficial informative content. We shall have to take responsibility for Universe, for us and all the living and yet unborn generations regarding humans and non-humans. Before to do it, before one could be able to comprehend the idea one should clear his/her mind. I guess we need some purgative practises to get out from this god-damned enclosed circle. Profound music examples may help us to deal with it. Most of music one can find from the charts is just a noise – it is not a thing on its own, it is just a product to fasten the aforementioned damned circle. Beyond that one's soul will be empty. Nick R 61's music is being free from this sin. It stimulates thinking of different aspects and spawns suggestive roundabouts in one's mind. Into the mind, isn't? He has been running an imprint called Fusion Netlabel and most of the catalogue is filled in with his own music. Regarding this it can be admitted his path has been long and the recent one is another step to accomplish his audible travel. Otherwise it is a perception of Hindustan and Nepal (the titles of the album are Kathmandau, Chomolungma, and Lhasa), a source of renewing spiritual practises for Westerners since the 60s (The Beatles, George Harrison, Angus MacLise). Nick R 61 employs samples from music/instruments of the abovementioned area and natural sounds to merge them with thick drumming of experimental hip-hop and trip-hop and less or more somber echoes and glowering drones. In a word, the short-running issue is highly poignant and mind-provoking.