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NOTUM - Nihil Est In Intellectu CD
Release of 2019.
CD limited to 100 copies in a glossy 4-panel digi-sleeve.
the debut full-length album of the Berlin-based project Notum! Despite
releasing a debut full-length only now, Notum is not a newcomer to the
world of experimental music. The first digital EP "Wooden Grandmother"
was released back in 2015 and was followed by a series of self-released
EPs, last year there was a joint cassette with Neznamo, and a while back
the project’s mastermind Ikk Ygg even played a couple of times in a
live line-up of Lunar Abyss Deus Organum.
It's damn hard to describe the music of Notum in just a couple of
succinct words, although the author himself uses the terms "experimental
/ free-form". The unwillingness to follow any particular musical style
creates an interesting multiverse in which the listener moves from room
to room, sometimes without even noticing how this happens. Here you are
crinkling from noise and shrill frequencies (one track is recorded with
the drone-noise project Kryptogen Rundfunk), then you are relaxing from a
soft piano, totally sinking in an odorous floral drone – and bam! –
jumping from an unexpected sample, foolishly giggling, and then starting
to tap your foot, sometimes breaking into a real dance.
It all sounds like a psychedelic labyrinth built by a
sonic architect with a brisk imagination and a peculiar sense of humor,
or a bright morning dream in which scenes are changing in an
unpredictable way, completely absorbing the dreamer. The oneiric theme
is also emphasized by the incredible artwork created by the Californian
artist and musician Matthew Waldron (irr. app. (ext.)).