TONIGHT! NYMPH (Brooklyn, Northern Spy) // Ben Scarboro // SEXINJURY // @ Black Cat

NYMPH is a Brooklyn-based psychedelic-shred/avant-garde outfit whose tempestuously transcendent music has penetrated the New York music scene with bared teeth! This, their self-titled debut album, was recorded by Jason Meagher (of No Neck Blues Band) at Black Dirt in upstate New York and mixed by David Tolomei at DNA in New York City from late autumn 2007 – summer 2009, and mastered by Sarah Register (of Talk Normal) at The Lodge studios in New York City. Originally self-released as a very special limited edition of 333 gatefold double LPs on their label Dog of Junipers, we at The Social Registry are very proud to be bringing the album to wider attention.

NYMPH’S compositional palette encompasses a shimmering kaleidoscope of sound: imagine 13th Floor Elevators essaying a Rahsaan Roland Kirk jam and you begin to get the picture. Or maybe Steve Reich bonging out on Pandit Pran Nath and jamming with This Heat.

NYMPH’s blissful spiritual vibrations and luxuriant execution of showering riffage are woven with an intuitive vocal expression largely free from the semantic bounds of lyric, ultimately finding form in a cavalcade of radiant melody & orgasmic modulation. Newly expanded to a 7-piece ensemble, NYMPH illuminates an extremely magnetic and ethereal live presence sculpted by the metronome of polyrhythmic tides, ebullient brass & subterranean harmonious drone:

“Free jazz, Improv and Psychedelia should be in constant and fruitful alignment. Yet they rarely are. Improvisors are too serious or austere for psychedelia’s transcendental whimsy, rock musicians too turned-on or musically limited to keep up with the jazz. Yet, like a ghost memory of that possibility, NYMPH emerge resplendent: wild, free and gloriously psychedelic…in a hinterland between the acid-fried rock of the Texas plains and the inner journeys of Can or Coltrane.” – The Wire

“NYMPH, from New York, sounds as if it’s from everywhere and nowhere. This group’s first, self-titled album, on the Social Registry label, begins with the sound of Matty McDermott’s hollow-bodied electric guitar, playing curled and emphatic Malian riffs with amplifier settings that sound like Neil Young’s, loud and tough and warm and hugely echoing. Then the record stops and starts through drum rolls and cymbal crashes and rattled bells, with theatrical yelping, wordless vocals by Eri Shoji. And that — give or take a clarinet, a shakuhachi and an electric bass — is pretty much the template for the whole intuitive and sensible, contemplative and bone-rattling album. It knows what it’s doing, and doesn’t need to make it too clear.”
– Ben Ratliff, NEW YORK TIMES

SEXINJURY –
This will be an infinity-off performance from a handful of Boone’s finest psych-lurkers. What it will be cannot be described until the zenith of its existence. Some foreshadowing may be explored at appalachianstudiesrecordings.com.

$5
::: Ages 18+
::::::1 Dollar pbrs