NOMO July 11, 2007

NOMO!!!!! w/ The Carribean - Wednesday July 11 - Rock and Roll Hotel - All Ages - 8pm

MAGNET
Its party music of the first order, locking into a groove so deep you can practically feel the sweat.

FADER
When Better Than That came in with what sounded like a conga and a Coke bottle percussion duet I sat up on the futon, then I got smoked by both the ensuing free jazz saxophone solo and the mbira passage. I stayed with the music, all the way though to The Seam and La La La ”the albums two brief final songs that masterfully explore both the bands astro potential and their sure-footed soul foundations.

XLR8R
Subtly shifting time signatures and grooves, and outfitted with more than capable soloists, Nomo sounds fresh in an otherwise saturated market.

URB
Elliot Bergman leads these 17 Detroit musicians bangin blowin and honkin through some funk and afrobeat hot enough to melt a Midwest blizzard.

BLENDER
When the ensemble locks into Bergman's sly instrumental themes, they sound disarmingly like forgotten favorites from 1974 Lagos.

DETROIT METROTIMES
Nomo creates genuinely exciting (gulp) groove-centric dance music that also allows room for avant-jazz, Afro-pop, dub reggae, soul and new music Orchestra Baobab locking into an untapped groove vein from Space is the Place at a basement party.

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