N. Nomurai

Introduction:

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This site has been designed to post information about the band N. Nomurai.

N. Nomurai's semi-structured explorations produce their own dynamic form of heavy psychedelia, melding overdriven post-metal riffs, deep ocean-floor ambience, nods to the trance-inducing locked-groove pattern reiterations of the minimalism and so-called Krautrock movements, the textures and angles of noise rock, cascading kosmische raga cycles, and the permutation and deconstruction of themes often associated with improv jazz. The members represent a varied amalgamation of musical histories and blend the instrumentation fundamental to rock with live electronics, extended techniques, and unconventional manipulations.

To the right is the list of Chapters for this site. Using those, you can learn about the band's concepts and improvisational guides, it's members, upcoming shows, discography, and all past shows (including who else was on the bill); plus videos, photos, fliers, and dozens of hours of highest-quality Mp3's of live recordings that may be streamed from this site or downloaded for free.

All posts (including audio, photos, fliers, etc.) are the property of N. Nomurai or are used by permission of the respective creator. However, all posted material may be used by anyone in any capacity so long as: A. it is not used for profit, B. credit is given to the respective creator (N. Nomurai, the photographer, the recorder, designer, author, etc.), and C. the respective creator is notified if it is used in any public broadcast or elements are sampled into a larger work.

Please feel free to share your thoughts with us by writing to N.Nomurai@gmail.com.

Thank you.

N. Nomurai

Upcoming Shows:

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*Sunday, August 21th, 2011 with Smiling Thief and Albert Kuo at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO.

Members:

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Jeremy Brantlinger (August 2008-present)

drum kit, contact mic, prepared bass, and various effects

member of Mil Effect, Phut, Pound Of Flesh, and Peanuts

Eric Hall (August 2008-present)

MPC, synth, Qchord, contact mic, cymbals, field recordings, Noise Swash, and various effects

member of Grandpa's Ghost, .e (r!c hall), Peanuts, and ll

Jim Winkeler (August 2008-present)

electric bass, bow, and various effects

member of The Conformists

Pat Boland (January 2009-February 2010)
vibraphone, bow, toms, cymbals, glockenspiel, and bells
member of Adversary Workers and The Conformists

Brian Fleschute (August 2008- December 2009)

electric bass, synth, and various effects

member of New Dad, AXO, Nerve Parade, and Pat Sajak Assassins

About N. Nomurai:

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Nemopilema Nomurai (order Rhizostomeae; common name: Echizen Kurage or Nomura's Jellyfish) are jellyfish which are among the largest in the sea, frequently reaching a width of 6 or 7 feet and a weight of 400 pounds or more. They have recently been proliferating wildly in the Sea of Japan, among other nearby waters, largely due to the over-fishing of their natural predators and other fish that these jellies would compete with for food, sewage and high-nutrient agricultural run-off feeding into the waters, and an increase in ports and other structures that the jellies' larvae attach to. In fact, jellyfish in general are now expected to have a larger biomass than all the fish in the oceans combined.

Due to their rapidly growing numbers, by the summer of 2005 Japanese fishers began to recognize the bane they posed while accidentally catching them by the hundreds in their giant nets. Because of their weight, these massive jellies would often times break their nets, and they would crush and ruin the caught fish with their ectoplasm and toxins, not to mention the physical threat to the fisherman.

As the problem grew out of control, the Japanese fish industry began using kill-nets and also sent out jellyfish death squads who captured these jellies by the thousands and slaughtered them as they lay piled upon the ship deck. Protected by rubber suits and goggles, the fishers walked over the jellies slashing them with long blades, then pushed the dying animals back into the water. They assumed this would effectively reduce the numbers of these troublesome jellyfish, but there was one critical detail of the N. Nomurai they had not considered.

As a defense mechanism, when threatened these jellies eject all of their sperm or eggs. This reproductive matter is pooled on the ship's deck and then unknowingly dumped into the sea to fertilize, meaning that these slaughters actually caused the jellies to procreate, by the millions, posthumously.

As ever, these jellyfish display why they are an evolutionary masterpiece.

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Our project, N. Nomurai, is an open structure / improvisational gathering aspiring to sonically represent these creatures' evolutionary journey: from the Big Bang, to the primordial stew among the earth's earliest organisms, to becoming one of the most refined; elegant; and enduring animals on the planet, to their recent over-proliferation as an unexpected side-effect of man's industriousness, to being slaughtered for their trespass, and finally thriving; for now at least; because of an overlooked genetic safety net. Improvising upon this narrative is our sole compositional from, though the overall interpretation is drastically different each time.

Past Shows:

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Participants:

PB: Pat Boland (January, 2009-February, 2010)

JB: Jeremy Brantlinger (August, 2008-present)

BF: Brian Fleschute (August, 2008-November, 2009)

EH: Eric Hall (August, 2008-present)

JW: Jim Winkeler (August, 2008-present)

*August 3rd, 2011 with Andrew Weathers and Kevin Harris at Floating Laboratories, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*May 27th, 2011 with Bunnygrunt and Catholic Guilt at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*April 6th, 2011 with Tone Rodent, R6 Implant, and Pat Sajak Assassins at El Leñador, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*March 3rd, 2011 at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*February 20th, 2011 at CrankFest at Cranky Yellow, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*February 15th, 2011 with James Weber, jr., Jason Hutto, Jason Rook, Erik Seaver, and Sam Meyer at El Leñador, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*January 29th, 2011 with DinoFight! and GasRat at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*November 11th, 2010 with Bikini Acid and Half Gay at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*October 31st, 2010 with Magic City, Paper Dolls, and Luxora, at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*October 21st, 2010 with Mil-Effect at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*October 11th, 2010 with Alexis Gideon, The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra, and The Defibrillators at Off Broadway, Saint Louis, MO.

 (JB, EH, JW)

*September 1st, 2010 with Drums Like Machine Guns, Heavy Medical, and Cackling Hen at Apop Records, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*August 26th, 2010 at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO.(JB, EH, JW)

*July 22nd, 2010 with Catholic Guilt and Tony Renner at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO.  (JB, EH, JW)

*June 24th, 2010 with Theodore, Syna So Pro, and Blood Pony at The Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO (JB, EH, JW)

*June 15th, 2010 with Matt Dill and Andrew Weathers at The Fishtank Performance Space, Kansas City, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*May 20th, 2010 with Destruction Quartet and Half Gay at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*April 9th, 2010 with Magic City and Spelling Bee at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*April 2nd, 2010 with Panal S.A. DE C.V., Smiling Thief, and Thunder Kids at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, EH, JW)

*Febuary 18th, 2010 with I'd'ven't at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, EH, JW)

*November 18th, 2009 with Auternus, Latin, and SOMA at Fubar, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*October 1st, 2009 with New Dad and Glass Teeth at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*August 27st, 2009 with Tim Garrigan at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*August 21st, 2009 with Deah Top, High Diving Ponies, Holy Mother Exhaust, and Matt Dill at Foundation Art & Performance Gallery, Kansas City, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*August 14th, 2009 with Glass Teeth, Pat Sajak Assassins, and Tory Z Starbuck for the CD Release of "The Space Parlour: Live In St. Louis, Vol. 3" at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*July 26th, 2009 with A Bit Shifty, Pat Sajak Assassins, and Love, Kingsford at Cicero's, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)
  
*July 2nd, 2009 with Bridgeton Air Defense at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*June 30th, 2009 with 500mg (Michael Gibbons of Bardo Pond), Thee Ultimate Vag (Chris Grier of To Live And Shave In L.A. and Scott Verrastro of Kohoutek), and Catholic Guilt at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*June 9th, 2009 with Cave, Skarecrau Radio, and Ghost Ice at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*May 14th, 2009 with Spelling Bee and The Ottoman at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*April 17th, 2009 with ((THORLOCK)), Catholic Guilt, and Past Life Tiger at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*April 16th, 2009 with The DeepSea Goes at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*April 2nd, 2009 with Glass Teeth and Learn, Artist at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*March 12th, 2009 with Catholic Guilt at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*March 5th, 2009 live on The Space Parlour on KDHX 88.1FM Saint Louis Community Radio. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*February 12th, 2009 with Quief Quota and The Pat Sajak Assassins at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*February 8th, 2009 with Cadejo Negro and Charlie at The Lemp Neighborhood Art Center, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*February 6th, 2009 with Smiling Thief and Nerve Parade at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, JB, BF, EH, JW)

*January 25th, 2009 Private Session at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, BF, EH, JW)

*December 25th, 2008 with Nerve Parade and DJ Lil' Daddy Reba McEntire at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO. (PB, BF, EH, JW)

*November 28th, 2008 with A Dark Irony and Ashes & Iron at The Creepy Crawl, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, BF, EH, JW)

*November 12th, 2008 with The Conformists and The Wayward at The Lemp Neighborhood Art Center, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, BF, EH, JW)

*October 23rd, 2008 with Nerve Parade at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, BF, EH, JW)

*October 12th, 2008 with Nicoffeine, The Lonely Procession, Low Red Land, and Quarantine Carnival at The Creepy Crawl, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, BF, EH, JW)

*October 8th, 2008 with The Squid Choir Orkestra at The Way Out Club, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, BF, EH, JW)

*October 5th, 2008 Private Session at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, BF, EH, JW)

*September 7th, 2008 Private Session at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, BF, EH, JW)

*August 24th, 2008 Private Session at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO. (JB, BF, EH, JW)

Audio Archive:

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This section includes all of our recorded live concerts, as well as a live radio performance and some private sessions. If you have any comments or photos from these shows please share them with us.

Please note that most of these were recorded from the middle or front of the room to try to capture what the audience was hearing. As a result, there is occasionally bar and audience noise. Also, the volume and mix of each instrument is not always how we would want it, but for the most part these recordings are accurate documentations of the sets.

Below is the list of recordings we have. To play any recording, simply click the play button on the music player below any given title in gray. This will play the recording only as long as you are on this page, so we encourage you to download any recordings you want so that you may play them from your computer, mp3 player, or burn them to a CD. To download any recording, first click on the gray title. Then, on the new page that opens, click on the blue box that says "Download Now". Next, wait about a minute or less as the timer runs down, then click the underlined blue "Click here to download this file" text. It only takes a few clicks and a few moments.

Live at Floating Laboratories, Saint Louis, MO on August 3rd, 2011 (39mins)

Live at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO on May 27th, 2011 (34mins, 6secs)

Live at El Leñador, Saint Louis, MO on April 6th, 2011 (33mins, 34secs)

Live at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO on March 3rd, 2011 (40mins, 49secs)

Live at Cranky Yellow, Saint Louis, MO on February 20th, 2011 (35mins, 16secs)

Live at El Leñador, Saint Louis, MO on February 15th, 2011 (42mins, 46secs)

Live at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO on January 29th, 2011 (32mins, 43secs)

Live at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO on November 11th, 2010 (36mins, 35secs)

Live at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO on October 31st, 2010 (36mins, 38secs)

Live at Off Broadway, Saint Louis, MO on October 11th, 2010 (23mins, 34secs)

Live at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO on October 21st, 2010 (20mins, 44secs)

Live at Apop Records, Saint Louis, MO on September 1st, 2010 (30min, 23secs)

Live at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO on August 26th, 2010 (35min, 40secs)

Live at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO on July 22nd, 2010 (39min, 04secs)

Live at The Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO on June 24th, 2010 (25min, 7secs)

Live at The Fishtank Performance Space, Kansas City, MO on June 15th, 2010 (35mins, 22secs)

Live at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO on May 20th, 2010 (31mins, 37secs)

Live at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO on April 9th, 2010 (30min, 51secs)

Live at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO on April 2nd, 2010 (30min, 40secs)

Live at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO on Febuary 18th, 2010 (37min, 25secs)

Live at Fubar, Saint Louis, MO on November 18th, 2009 (31min, 58secs)

Live at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO on October 1st, 2009 (34min, 5 secs)

Live at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO on August 27th, 2009 (31 mins, 8 secs)

Live at Foundation, Kansas City, MO on August 21st, 2009 (41 mins, 44 secs)

Live at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO on August 14, 2009 (27 mins, 50 secs)

Live at Cicero's, Saint Louis, MO on July 26th, 2009. (30 mins, 5 secs)

Live at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO on June 30th, 2009. (38 mins, 5 secs)

Live at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO on June 9th, 2009. (28 mins, 35 secs)

Live at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO on May 14th, 2009. (33 mins, 4 secs)

Live at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO on April 17th, 2009. (25 mins, 23 secs)

Live at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO on April 16th, 2009. (32 mins, 19 secs)

Live at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO on April 2nd, 2009. (34 mins, 18 secs)

Live at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO on March 12th, 2009. (39 mins, 33 secs)

Live on KDHX 88.1FM Saint Louis Community Radio's The Space Parlour on March 5th, 2009. (Note: this is not a link to a download. It is a link to KDHX's site where this recording can be played from a launchable music player.) (36 mins, 3 secs)

Live at The Schlafly Tap Room, Saint Louis, MO on February 12th, 2009. (34 mins, 54 secs)

Live at The Lemp Neighborhood Art Center, Saint Louis, MO on February 8th, 2009. (33 mins, 51 secs)

Live at Lemmon's, Saint Louis, MO on February 6th, 2009. (33 mins, 25 secs)

Live at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO on January 25th, 2009. (37 mins, 57 secs)

Live at The Lemp Neighborhood Art Center, Saint Louis, MO on November 12th, 2008. (33 mins, 4 secs)

Live at Mangia Italiano, Saint Louis, MO on October 23rd, 2008. (34 mins, 49 secs)

Live at The Creepy Crawl, Saint Louis, MO on October 12th, 2008. (38 mins, 11 secs)

Live at The Way Out Club, Saint Louis, MO on October 8th, 2008. (39 mins, 11 secs)

Live at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO on October 5th, 2008. (47 mins)

Live at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO on September 7th, 2008. (39 mins, 10 secs)

Live at CBGB, Saint Louis, MO on August 24th, 2008. (35 mins, 58 secs)

Technical information:

All recordings were done with an M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 2-track digital recorder via two Behringer C-2 microphones connected to a Yahama MG10/2 mixer. All recordings began as 16 bit 44.1 kilohertz per second PCM stereo WAV files and were then converted to the highest quality stereo mp3 files using Variable Bit Rate Encoding at an average of 32 kilobytes per second.

All recordings were engineered by Eric Hall and/or Jeremy

Brantlinger. All recordings were mastered by Eric Hall.

Fliers / Artwork / Photos:

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Where possible, all pieces below are credited and include links to the source. Please check them out.

Cicero's, photo from thePSA on Twitter

Painting by Dana Smith

Unfinished painting by Dana Smith

CBGB, photo by Ani Corless

Merch, photo by Eric Hall

Foundation, KCMO, photo by Eric Hall

Foundation flier

N. Nomurai / Cave / Ghost Ice / Skarekrau Radio flier by Eric Hall

N. Nomurai / ((Thorlock)) / Catholic Guilt / Past Life Tiger flier by Eric Hall (10 minute rule)

N. Nomurai / Nerve Parade / Smiling Thief flier by Eric Hall

The Schlafly Tap Room, photo by Brett Lars Underwood

The Schlafly Tap Room, photo by Katy Romine

The Schlafly Tap Room, photo by Lindsey Klees

The Schlafly Tap Room, photo by Katy Romine

Brian, photo by Katy Romine

Jim, photo by Katy Romine

Eric, photo by Katy Romine

Jeremy, photo by Katy Romine

The Creepy Crawl, photo by Katy Romine

The Way Out Club, photo by Dana Smith

Discography:

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2009:

Procreating, By The Millions, Posthumously

1. Bloom14 (36 mins, 3 secs)

Recorded live on The Space Parlour, KDHX 88.1FM Saint Louis Community Radio on March 5th, 2009. Engineered by Jon Valley. Mastered by Eric Hall. Special Thanks to Nick Acquisto.

2. MegaKurage (39 mins, 33 secs)

20 different live recordings of N. Nomurai (made between August 24th, 2008 and August 14th, 2009) played simultaneously. All recordings were engineered by Eric Hall and/or Jeremy Brantlinger. Mastered by Eric Hall. All individual recordings are available as streams or free downloads from the Live Archives section of our site.

*This limited edition CD release comes in a handmade vellum and cardstock package with red and black stamped images and text and a stamped Shrinky-Dink piece that holds the disc in place with velcro. (See pictures below.)

Various Artists- The Space Parlour: Live In St. Louis Series 2009

Features live tracks from Pokey Lafarge, Glass Teeth, Kristeen Young, Tight Pants Syndrome, Paper Dolls, The May Day Orchestra, The Pat Sajak Assassins, N. Nomurai, So Many Dynamos, Rum Drum Ramblers, and The Ottomen.