Press Release: The Nimoys Eventide Album Portland Launch October 25, 2004
Okay, I don't mention this often, but I'm part of a 2-person electronic music group with my musician brother. The official band name is "The Nimoys," a surname we inherited from our ancestors. One CD distributor has decided to put our "Eventide" album (compiled in Winter 2003) at the front page of their sales website - next to the new Cool Nutz rap album. A flattering review of "Eventide" can be found there today (Oct 25). www.cdbaby.com
The Nimoys: Eventide
Intense, glassy and distilled tones drawn from the sounds of videogames, high and low frequency beats peppering drawn-out phrases, pecking holes in a long, stretched-out melodic thought, dancing with the possibility of pure randomness, one step away from the samples composing themselves, delving into the stripping of soundwaves, taking a guitar lick and slowly unwinding it, taking the stance that all is "game" for their soundplay. These approaches begin to capture the far too rare approach to their album- one of genuine curiosity, possibility; one of "why not?!"s and "what if?!"s. As wiry threads dodge and tumble around thicker, more lush tones, the high-strung samples dart in and out from among the more ambling qualities, multi-layered textures of diverse color and mood are juxtaposed with a sense of spontaneity, yet not without meaning. Similar in style to groups like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Autechre, the album prods the brain much like a kaleidoscope where lucid colors and abstract geometrical patterns, pulled by gravity but seeming to move with their own will, inject fleeting imagery and fractal-like impressions
onto the mind, leaving behind an indefinite sensation. In a nutshell? Kick Ass.
In addition to getting this unexpected media attention, The Nimoys Eventide CD (already for sale as a physical product) will soon hit digital distribution (and has already hit in some cases) on the following online music services: iTunes Store, Sony Connect, MSN Music, AOL's MusicNet, RealNetworks' "Rhapsody" service, Napster, MusicMatch, AudioLunchBox, BuyMusic, CatchMusic, AliveAudio, LoudEye, NetMusic, EMEPE3 (Latin American and Spain), Emusic, Etherstream, Mperia, PureTracks (Canada only!), QTRNote, RuleRadio, and last but not least, True Independent Viztas. So keep an eye out for this in the coming 3 months as the product propagates!
Special thanks to NYU ITP for helping Josh & Marc debug a lot of the music.
