LP, Staubgold, 2006
Style: Free-Psych, Free-Folk, Kosmische
Moods: Primordial, Ritualistic, Exploratory, Mysterious, Hypnotic, Eerie, Jungle, Meandering, Ominous, Abstract, Psychedelic, Tribal
Musical Qualities: Collective Improvisation, Lo-Fi, Percussive, Repetitive, Droney
Instrumentation: Vibraphone, Experimental Vocals, Percussion, Electric Guitar, Oud, Synthesizers
http://www.staubgold.com/en/album/54/embryonnck/
“Embryo’s music showed the distinct influence ofBitches Brew-style electric fusion, while later records show the group to be progressively informed by Indian, Middle Eastern and North African sources. Much of their work, however, has been too straitlaced and overtly jazzy to peg them as an obvious forerunner to NNCK’s primal, shamanic guerilla performances.Yet despite their radical differences in strategy and approach, these two ensembles share more in common than it might initially appear. Both groups diligently shun categorization, drawing upon whatever stray traces of free jazz, psychedelia, ethnic folk, or Martian blues that happen to capture their fancy, while maintaining a decidedly liberal attitude towards possible instrumentation. Moreover, both units are clearly guided by the same dogged devotion to spontaneous invention, and it’s this sheer undisguised enthusiasm for joint exploration that enables EmbryoNNCK to so accurately capture the dazzling midpoint between their two softly-colliding galaxies.” Matthew Murphy (https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5819-embryonnck/)
