Dark Garden
Nerve Net Noise
$12.99
Dark Garden, the new album of thrillingly idiosyncratic analog buzz by Nerve Net Noise – aka: homemade synth duo Hiroshi Kumakiri (aka Kumax) and Tagomago – is the perfect entry-point for listeners new to their singular sonic world. Where previous albums have explored a single sonic idea at a time, Dark Garden is their most varied and (relatively) accessible album yet. Which is not to say that it won’t cause heads to turn everywhere this is played in public.
Dark Garden is an album of short, song-like synthesizer pieces, taking cues from manga, science fiction, early electronic music, and minimal techno… but as always, the Yokohama band resides firmly in their own inexplicable universe. It assimilates fractured beats, bubbling pulses, and impatient drones into an album that’s somehow both playfully alive and coldly menacing. In his liner notes, synth builder Kumakiri describes spirits that lurk in the shadows and watch people go about their lives, existing in a parallel world that brings to mind fairy tales and myth. Nerve Net Noise’s music is similarly just out of reach, present in the natural world but not quite a part of it. For fans of Klaus Schultze, Jessica Rylan, Henri Pousseur, or Pan Sonic.
Nerve Net Noise “Dark Garden” CD by Intransitive Recordings
Praise for Dark Garden:
“Little slices of gorgeous repetitive parallel universe pop music.” – Neil Campbell/Astral Social Club
“Eleven palettes of surreal tessellations and hallucinatory miasma that move like fragments from a lost science-fiction soundtrack. Outstanding!” – Foxy Digitalis
“Strong production – very clear, very loud and bass heavy. I think because it’s more musical than much of their previous work, this is their best release so far.” - Vital Weekly
“… some of the most uniquely strange music this side of anywhere. Think Pan Sonic crossed with Jessica Rylan and you’re halfway there and still not even close. Rhythms are eccentric and repetitive, referencing techno, and yet they’re utterly undanceable. They’re wonderful, if they don’t drive you up a tree, that is! You love them or you hate them; there simply is no middle ground.” – Rare Frequency
“The tracks here mostly border on what one might refer to as a type of techno, one that is as austere as it is deranged.” – Scrapyard Forecast
“… just how exactly these guys conjure up such deep, seemingly simple patterns & analogue void-shapes is beyond my comprehension (and i have a degree in music synthesis !!!) – while most pieces rely on some sort of rhythmic grid/ under-pinning, this is about a far removed from dance music as you can imagine; most pieces simply state their case and are allowed free reign to develop on their own terms.” – Mimaroglu Music Sales
