NLF3 @ Retro Bar, Manchester for Wotgodforgot & Bad Uncle June 3, 2009

NLF3
Retro Bar, Sackville St, Manchester 8pm £5.00 adv for WotGodForgot and Bad Uncle

UBICO-FOLK, WILD EXOTICA, PSYCHEDELIC ODYSSEY:

NLF3's music has been described as "a kitsch This Heat" by The Wire, and compared for its rhythms to a 2009 version of the Ege Bamayasi-era of Can. The Guardian even spoke of them as "a Radiohead seduced by the idea of live improvisation".

The members of NLF3 - F.lor, Mitch and Don Nino - name influences as varied as Pierre Henry, Fela Kuti, Steve Reich, Ennio Moricone, as well as Syd Barrett, Zappa, Fantomas, Aphex Twin, and Sonic Youth. Strange gurus indeed, for a music that, after all these comparisons, still sounds unique. NLF3 is the story of three music lovers – two brothers in blood and a third in spirit – united by the same passion: to make music, record it and take it all around the world. In that regard, their kinship with Battles and Animal Collective, with whom they have toured, seems perfectly natural - they all belong to the same generation of musicians and have the same desire to discover new territory, to explore new possibilities and to bring together past and future. It comes as no surprise either that the brothers F.lor and Don have lived in Germany as well as the US, and have spent some time in Nigeria where their father introduced them to the great Fela Kuti and others like the sculptor Twin Seven Seven.

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Nlf3's new album "Ride On A Brabd New Time" has received
excellent reveiws from some of the most respected UK music mags:-
'Although the album title might suggest a slightly disorientated Black Box, this French trio deal in a kind of dislocated, heavily rhythmic psych-exotica which, despite the use of kalimbas and ukuleles, steer clear of
ersatz worldliness and winds up squarely in the realm of the ecstatic... 'Fuses, Apes And Doppler'...a song so simultaneously tremulous and brave it makes me want to heave big, gulping cathartic sobs...' (Plan B)

'their fourth album sees brothers Nicolas and Fabrice Laureau with pal Mitch Pires marrying experimentalism with accessibility, resulting in a softer take on Battles's neo-prog or the hypno-states of Dungen....
rhythmically insistent with unearthly harmonies, quizzical guitars, organs and piano; standing out re shimmering brain-message Fuses, Apes & Doppler and the humid post-rock of Hurricane. A ride worth taking'. (Q
Magazine)

'not unlike Tortoise covering Zombie Zombie... rooting through avant- rock and tropicalia influences like Steve Reich and Tom Ze..' (Uncut Magazine)

'If Battles are the painstaking number crunchers in the laboratory of math rock, calibrating their work to perfection, Parisian three-piece NLF3 sound more they’re throwing everything into a beaker and emerging moments later with soot on their faces and their hair standing on end. There’s a palpable feeling of joy running throughout this, their fourth album; a sense of heedlessness in the pursuit of, well, of whatever it is
that NLF3 are pursuing.' (Drowned in Sound)

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