voyage au soleil
by numün
Kevin Church
Kevin Church
Jaw-dropping cosmic tunes for those quiet moments in the ISS, looking at our tiny blue dot below. I'm a NASA nut, so "Tranquility Base" hit hard, but opener "Tranceport" is a perfect piece of nostalgia for a time that hasn't existed yet.
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Watch the video for 'voyage au soleil' here: youtu.be/DjzVFvBAfm0
Watch the video for 'tranquility base' here:
youtu.be/gc_JPbeL6e0
Numün is a trio of New York City soundscape designers who combine a wide range of music and visual influences to create hypnotic aural and visual experiences. The band members include “ambient country” pioneer Bob Holmes (from SUSS) as well as new music composer and artist, Joel Mellin, and percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Chris Romero (both from Gamelan Dharma Swara). Their influences range from sonic artists like Brian Eno and Morton Subotnick, to the environmental visual artists Olafur Eliason and Elias Romero, to Balinese composer I Nyoman Windha and shadow puppet master I Wayan Wija. As individual artists, their work has been seen and heard at MOMA, The Met, Basilica Hudson, The Bali Arts Festival, NPR, New Sounds, Echoes, and has been featured in Mojo, Wire, Pitchfork and Aquarium Drunkard.
Numün’s first album, “voyage au soleil”, will be released on Musique Impossible in Fall 2020. The original sessions came out of a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of man’s first landing on the moon. The initial track, “Tranquility Base” was featured... moreSold Out
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first steps
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tranquility base
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mission loss
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expanse
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voyage au soleil
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about
Watch the video for 'voyage au soleil' here: youtu.be/DjzVFvBAfm0
Watch the video for 'tranquility base' here:
youtu.be/gc_JPbeL6e0
Numün is a trio of New York City soundscape designers who combine a wide range of music and visual influences to create hypnotic aural and visual experiences. The band members include “ambient country” pioneer Bob Holmes (from SUSS) as well as new music composer and artist, Joel Mellin, and percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Chris Romero (both from Gamelan Dharma Swara). Their influences range from sonic artists like Brian Eno and Morton Subotnick, to the environmental visual artists Olafur Eliason and Elias Romero, to Balinese composer I Nyoman Windha and shadow puppet master I Wayan Wija. As individual artists, their work has been seen and heard at MOMA, The Met, Basilica Hudson, The Bali Arts Festival, NPR, New Sounds, Echoes, and has been featured in Mojo, Wire, Pitchfork and Aquarium Drunkard.
Numün’s first album, “voyage au soleil”, will be released on Musique Impossible in Fall 2020. The original sessions came out of a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of man’s first landing on the moon. The initial track, “Tranquility Base” was featured on the compilation, “The Moon and Back – One Small Step for Global Pop” and released on London-based WIAIWYA that same year. With 1969 as a starting point, numün began exploring what that period of history meant to them both personally and musically. Using a combination of traditional Balinese and Americana instrumentation, along with synthesizers and loop manipulation reminiscent of their musique concrete forbearers, numün created soundscapes that explored the hope, turmoil, and psychedelic escape and promise of that pivotal era. The final result is 6 tracks that take the listener on a trip to the heart of the sun.
The album's first track, tranceport, is a welcoming that coaxes the listener into the vast, atmospheric numün experience with seemingly disparate instrumentation that includes a cümbüş (a fretless turkish banjo), a mellotron, a '52 gibson hollowbody, violin, and Balinese gongs. As is the beautiful heartache of any journey into the beyond, the periodic gong cycles signal both a beginning and an end - they're one and the same, and yet, with a twist at the end, this one track exemplifies numün’s unique musical style as both surprising and reassuring. With the journey begun, the second track, first steps is a story of finding your bearings in unfamiliar territory: the tremolo twang juxtaposed against the strident cümbüş combine as if David Lynch's Twin... more
Watch the video for 'tranquility base' here:
youtu.be/gc_JPbeL6e0
Numün is a trio of New York City soundscape designers who combine a wide range of music and visual influences to create hypnotic aural and visual experiences. The band members include “ambient country” pioneer Bob Holmes (from SUSS) as well as new music composer and artist, Joel Mellin, and percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Chris Romero (both from Gamelan Dharma Swara). Their influences range from sonic artists like Brian Eno and Morton Subotnick, to the environmental visual artists Olafur Eliason and Elias Romero, to Balinese composer I Nyoman Windha and shadow puppet master I Wayan Wija. As individual artists, their work has been seen and heard at MOMA, The Met, Basilica Hudson, The Bali Arts Festival, NPR, New Sounds, Echoes, and has been featured in Mojo, Wire, Pitchfork and Aquarium Drunkard.
Numün’s first album, “voyage au soleil”, will be released on Musique Impossible in Fall 2020. The original sessions came out of a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of man’s first landing on the moon. The initial track, “Tranquility Base” was featured on the compilation, “The Moon and Back – One Small Step for Global Pop” and released on London-based WIAIWYA that same year. With 1969 as a starting point, numün began exploring what that period of history meant to them both personally and musically. Using a combination of traditional Balinese and Americana instrumentation, along with synthesizers and loop manipulation reminiscent of their musique concrete forbearers, numün created soundscapes that explored the hope, turmoil, and psychedelic escape and promise of that pivotal era. The final result is 6 tracks that take the listener on a trip to the heart of the sun.
The album's first track, tranceport, is a welcoming that coaxes the listener into the vast, atmospheric numün experience with seemingly disparate instrumentation that includes a cümbüş (a fretless turkish banjo), a mellotron, a '52 gibson hollowbody, violin, and Balinese gongs. As is the beautiful heartache of any journey into the beyond, the periodic gong cycles signal both a beginning and an end - they're one and the same, and yet, with a twist at the end, this one track exemplifies numün’s unique musical style as both surprising and reassuring. With the journey begun, the second track, first steps is a story of finding your bearings in unfamiliar territory: the tremolo twang juxtaposed against the strident cümbüş combine as if David Lynch's Twin... more
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released September 4, 2020
Bob Holmes bass, guitar, harpsichord, synths, violin static
Joel Mellin piano, organ, guitar, gongs, gender wayang, theremin, bass, synths, assorted percussion
Christopher Romero dholak, cümbüş
w/guest Trina Basu: violin
all compositions by Holmes/Mellin/Romero High-Lonesome Music (BMI) / Musique Impossible (BMI) / Manyplace Music Publishing (BMI)
©℗ 2020 numün / Musique Impossible All Rights Reserved.
“Tranquility Base” originally appeared on ‘The Moon and Back - One Small Step for Global Pop’ WIAIWYA, London - Thanks, John Jervis!
Album Design by Joel Mellin
www.joelmellin.com
Produced by Joel Mellin w/Bob Holmes
Recorded, Engineered, and Mixed by Joel Mellin
Musique Impossible Studios, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
Mastered by Pete Weiss Verdant Studios, Athens, VT
www.numunband.com
Bob Holmes bass, guitar, harpsichord, synths, violin static
Joel Mellin piano, organ, guitar, gongs, gender wayang, theremin, bass, synths, assorted percussion
Christopher Romero dholak, cümbüş
w/guest Trina Basu: violin
all compositions by Holmes/Mellin/Romero High-Lonesome Music (BMI) / Musique Impossible (BMI) / Manyplace Music Publishing (BMI)
©℗ 2020 numün / Musique Impossible All Rights Reserved.
“Tranquility Base” originally appeared on ‘The Moon and Back - One Small Step for Global Pop’ WIAIWYA, London - Thanks, John Jervis!
Album Design by Joel Mellin
www.joelmellin.com
Produced by Joel Mellin w/Bob Holmes
Recorded, Engineered, and Mixed by Joel Mellin
Musique Impossible Studios, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
Mastered by Pete Weiss Verdant Studios, Athens, VT
www.numunband.com
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