"It’s easy to get swallowed up by the swirling, amorphous rush of sound created by Brooklyn avant-psych unit NYMPH...The expanded group amps up the hypnotic density on the album’s four sprawling, droning tunes, melding Krautrock minimalism with free-jazz explorations."
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"The Only Way to Go Is Straight Through is occasionally awe-inspiring with its musical choices and even its pace. A sustained chord at the right time can make the listeners feel they are at the edge of a deep, dark chasm until the sounds kick back in."
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"It’s quite a journey from beginning to end, one that constantly changes, while listening and with each listen, as new details appear with each subsequent play. Is it the best jazz album or noise album of the year? Both. And more."
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"Butcher’s tool kit of circular breathing, multiphonics and feedback were expansions on what early African-American free jazz and British free improvisers had already developed, but his particular explorations and aesthetic are unique to him. He is always challenging himself with the unfamiliar, and in so doing has extended the range of the saxophone."
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NYMPH 'New Millennium Prayer' charts at #18 in WXDU Top 88 and #2 in Loud for week ending June 16, 2013.
check it outBlack Host "Life in the Sugar Candle Mines" charts at #28 in TOP88 and #4 in Jazz for the week ending 6/16/ 2013.
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Black Host and NYMPH chart at CKUT (Montreal, Canada) on 6/18/2013.
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Life In The Sugar Candle Mines at #50 in Top 103 and #5 in Jazz on WXYC (Chapel Hill, NC) for the week of 6/9/2013 - 6/15/2013.
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Life In The Sugar Candle Mines at #6 in Jazz on KDVS 6/17/2013.
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Ceramic Dog "Your Turn" charting at #14 on WXYC's Top 103 Records for the week of 6/9/2013 - 6/15/2013.
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Rhys Chatham and Oneida are featured on CKUT's 'New Shit' list on June 17.
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Charles Gayle 'Streets' charting at #2 on Asheville FM Jazz Chart for the Week Ending 6/15/2013.
check it out"COL" charts at #28 on Asheville FM Top 30 Chart for the week Ending 6/15/2013.
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"Beyond" played on June 17, 2013
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"This musical contrast is complemented by director Mario Latham’s video, which features dirty stone sidewalks next to pristine cobblestones, urban decay foregrounded against a bustling city life, film sped up and slowed down, imagery from various periods of New York jumbled together to set the structural, claustrophobic elements of city life (signs telling you to do this and that) against the ecstasy of dance and the freedom implied in wide open skies."
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