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THE SOUND MUSEUM
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/// Audio visual music collaboration platform
///JOANA///
Joana sets off a fluid project starting with Lana Del Rey's drummer Tom Marsh and electronic music producer Dave Campbell (62nd Cell, Hi-Ryze)
In the aftermath of the post-pandemic release spree, we take off with a track dedicated to Joana, Zahara's mother, who suffered an aggressive lung cancer diagnosed shortly before lockdown, and which the three of them experienced in isolation until the end of 2020.
The song remained untouched due to its emotional weight until 2022 when we finished it with Dave at YozMaz in Ipswich and mastered it with Brett Shaw at 123 Studios in London.
SUN BURNT AMNIOTIC LULLABY ROLLS TO POP PSYCH JOURNEY
Joana is a love song to a mother, where Phil Spector meets Velvet Underground, with sunshine expansiveness and an underlying twilight, carried through with Tom Marsh's grooving drums and Dave Campbell’s touch of electronic space textures, a starting point for a new music project of the duo in collaboration with other artists.
Joana released on the 14th October 2022
THE NYCO PROJECT
psychedelic pop rock | video art
The Nyco Project emerged from experimenting
with the concept of cutups and music as collage.
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Our organic process is based on documenting all
individual sounds and filmed live performances
with portable audio devices and cameras, capturing each moment from begining to end.
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The results of this project blur lines between realism and surrealism, with evocative stories, indie sensual grooves,
desert sounds, gritty pop, power blues,
psychedelic existential rock and humour. Inviting to a sort of voyeurism of our recording process
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...each song a journey of perception expansion depicted as deconstructable moving paintings that can respond to touch.
The New Machine I, II, & III
EP series
THE NEW MACHINE III
MAMMA DOOM
FROM THE NEW MACHINE SERIES
WIPE ME TO FORGET
DON'T SAY A WORD
YOU BRING ME HOPE
THE NEW MACHINE II
BATHE ME
BLOWN
FROM THE NEW MACHINE SERIES
SHE'S ONLY CARBON
THE NEW MACHINE
FADE AWAY
FROM THE NEW MACHINE SERIES
YOU'RE SO WEAK
THE NEW MACHINE
I LOST MY CAR
Reviews
The Sound Of Confusion (UK)
"'Fade Away' is a vibrant, heady, song. A moonshine mix of seductively rich, esoteric, primal, blues. There are glimpses of earthy psych wrapped in bayou swamp groove. 'Fade Away' a is potent mix of Polly Jean Harvey, with touches of the much missed of Boss Hog and Royal Trux.
'You're So Weak' could have fallen from one of the infamous Desert Sessions. Sun-bleached, windswept, it has touches of The Bad Seeds and late era Doors. This is a beguiling, captivating song. Singer Zahara falls into the linage of sensual, alt-torch singers of Nancy Sinatra, through to Beth Gibbons and Martina Topley-Bird. And so to final track 'The New Machine'. Starker, with a less immediate feel, then it is laced with a near perverse pop lightness which is an unexpected delight. The almost erotic groove of the first two songs is initially missed. Then on repeated plays, it reveals some delicious guitars, which embeds the song with dynamic swathes of colour, and allows it to grow with plays. The Nyco Project has delivered an intriguing, powerful, seductive collection of songs... they show a tantalising and wonderful glimpse of the possible shape of things to come."
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Stereoboard (UK)
“Bold”
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MusicWeek (UK)
“Genius”
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InvasionMag (UK)
"Possibly the coolest EP to have ever existed. Ever"
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olaj Magazine (Canada)
"The Nyco Project takes things to a whole new level... For lovers of collage, TNP is a rare opportunity to see just how far the genre can go."
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Anna Wilson (music & cross arts producer, Barbican Centre)
"Amazing music, amazing art"
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Rachel Nelken (senior producer, Roundhouse)
"Really beautiful"
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Vassilis Oikonomopoulos (assistant curator, Tate Modern)
"Great, just great!"
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Members:
Ben Hardy - vocals, guitars, keys, bass, electronic drums, organic sampling
Zahara Muñoz-Vicens - vocals, guitars, keys, bass, organic sampling
Joantoni Seguí - drums, percussion and howls
Daisy Brodskis - bass, keys and howls
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Collaborations:
Kavus Torabi (Knifeworld, Gong, Guapo) - featuring his guitar in The New Machine and ebow in You Bring Me Hope
Jordi Herrera (The Cicely Satellites, The Marzipan Man) - featuring his cosmic guitar in I Lost My Car and in Bathe Me
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Audio Production:
Dave Campbell (HI-RYZE, 62nd Cell, Yozmaz)
Ben Hardy & Zahara Muñoz-Vicens (Strange Pill)
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