Cargo Records

NIC

This is a multi-faceted sound, without boundaries, that takes it's influences from punk, jazz, reggae, soul, dub and electronica.

A few years back, drummer Ted Parsons [Swans, Prong, Jesu, Killing Joke] spent some time hanging out in London with ex-PIL guitarist Keith Levene, jamming, chewing the fat, having a few beers and making plans to record together. Eventually, a few years later, Keith found himself in Oslo's Mok Studios alongside Ted and the rest of the NIC crew - keyboard wizard Markus O Klyve, Texan guitarist and vocalist Chuck Frazier, bassist Matti Hansen, audio/dub scientist Fredrik (Kjeks) Kjelman, producer Scotty Hard and an elastic bag full of flexible ideas. This is the result, a ravishing album of laid-back and funkadelic tunes. Vibrant, intensely textured guitars and keyboards layered over complex rolling rhythms sprinkled with some sweet soul vocals. And to cap it all they managed to recruit legendary Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær to contribute some beautifully haunting trumpet on track 4, Tume.