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N.A.M.B.
namb.it ♥ myspace.com
Doing a search for N.A.M.B. brings up "National Association of Mortgage Brokers", and certainly these musician from Italy should be not be associated with economic woes and stuffy dressed businessmen. They seem to me to be a bit wild and mental and fun.
Their sophomore album is BMAN., released in Italy last October, courtesy of Monotreme Records. The details I have is that the album will be available in the UK in February. Retail copies will come with a 96-page booklet, illustrating a story line (which I'm assuming the artwork were inspired by their 18 songs on the album).
My promo copy does not have the said booklet, so I feel like I'm missing out or something. So, just imagine, I'm listening to the album, from beginning to end and I have different feeling on their songs. Everything from "funky" to "rock" to "experimental" to "epic", but never at any point do I feel like it's uneven.
Most, if not all, of the songs are in English, I believe "Mushichetta In Pausa Sigaretta", despite the title is also in English. That song is just silly, judging from the singing style of Davide Tomat (aka "dMan") ... but it's OK because you get the impression that the song isn't to be taken too seriously.
Apparently the band get compared to The Flaming Lips a lot, and I can see why. Take a free download at Magnet Magazine of "L.O.N.", and you can hear its spacey epic influence (especially towards the end of the song).
This space-age, weird, trippy type of music is probably best experienced at a live setting and/or under some kind of chemical influence - and unfortunately I have neither. Just listening to the album on headphones, I tend to like the more comprehensive songs, such as "Serrato" and "Primula" (these songs sounds like pop-rock song).
I feel that most bands don't bother with the packaging of their CD, so I'm glad to see that N.A.M.B. is releasing BMAN with the 100-page-ish booklet. So if you like what you've read and heard, you can get the album directly at Monotreme Records.
J.E.L.L.i.
jellimusic.com ♥ myspace.com
Compared to N.A.M.B.'s 70+ minutes of music, listening to J.E.L.L.i.'s The J.E.L.L.i. EP was a breeze.
J.E.L.L.i. is basically the stage name for "one-man band" Christopher Sauter. No idea what J.E.L.L.i. stands for and Sauter isn't volunteering the answer on his website ("It's a secret until the right time").
The EP starts off light, a love song-ish about "Jenn". It's quickly followed by an upbeat Greenday-esque track called "I Am Blank (Nothing)". Sometime Sauter slips to that Blink 182's "nagging" singing style (on "White Lines"), but it's fine because he isn't afraid to hide it. He wears his influences proudly on his sleeve - and I like that honesty.
J.E.L.L.i. is still a young artist, so it should be interesting to see where he's at in a few years. In the meantime, if you want to support by getting his 5-track EP, it's $5 at amazon.com or itunes.
namb.it ♥ myspace.com
Doing a search for N.A.M.B. brings up "National Association of Mortgage Brokers", and certainly these musician from Italy should be not be associated with economic woes and stuffy dressed businessmen. They seem to me to be a bit wild and mental and fun.
Their sophomore album is BMAN., released in Italy last October, courtesy of Monotreme Records. The details I have is that the album will be available in the UK in February. Retail copies will come with a 96-page booklet, illustrating a story line (which I'm assuming the artwork were inspired by their 18 songs on the album).
My promo copy does not have the said booklet, so I feel like I'm missing out or something. So, just imagine, I'm listening to the album, from beginning to end and I have different feeling on their songs. Everything from "funky" to "rock" to "experimental" to "epic", but never at any point do I feel like it's uneven.
Most, if not all, of the songs are in English, I believe "Mushichetta In Pausa Sigaretta", despite the title is also in English. That song is just silly, judging from the singing style of Davide Tomat (aka "dMan") ... but it's OK because you get the impression that the song isn't to be taken too seriously.
Apparently the band get compared to The Flaming Lips a lot, and I can see why. Take a free download at Magnet Magazine of "L.O.N.", and you can hear its spacey epic influence (especially towards the end of the song).
This space-age, weird, trippy type of music is probably best experienced at a live setting and/or under some kind of chemical influence - and unfortunately I have neither. Just listening to the album on headphones, I tend to like the more comprehensive songs, such as "Serrato" and "Primula" (these songs sounds like pop-rock song).
I feel that most bands don't bother with the packaging of their CD, so I'm glad to see that N.A.M.B. is releasing BMAN with the 100-page-ish booklet. So if you like what you've read and heard, you can get the album directly at Monotreme Records.
J.E.L.L.i.jellimusic.com ♥ myspace.com
Compared to N.A.M.B.'s 70+ minutes of music, listening to J.E.L.L.i.'s The J.E.L.L.i. EP was a breeze.
J.E.L.L.i. is basically the stage name for "one-man band" Christopher Sauter. No idea what J.E.L.L.i. stands for and Sauter isn't volunteering the answer on his website ("It's a secret until the right time").
The EP starts off light, a love song-ish about "Jenn". It's quickly followed by an upbeat Greenday-esque track called "I Am Blank (Nothing)". Sometime Sauter slips to that Blink 182's "nagging" singing style (on "White Lines"), but it's fine because he isn't afraid to hide it. He wears his influences proudly on his sleeve - and I like that honesty.
J.E.L.L.i. is still a young artist, so it should be interesting to see where he's at in a few years. In the meantime, if you want to support by getting his 5-track EP, it's $5 at amazon.com or itunes.
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