Mint, nytt album.

1.La Cîme de l'Ourse 01:342.Sunkissed Invisible 07:133.Trolldoms Skirhet 04:384.The High Neuro-Degenerative Dwarves 11:595.The Becoming of Bear Intelligence 04:426.Brain Development is no Whelp Psychology 07:217.Non-Defined by the Ruling of Numbers 03:168.The Highly Consultative Role 05:04

released September 10, 2024

Guitar on tracks 1 and 8 recorded in Ivarsboda (Umeå), March 2023.
All other instruments recorded in Haparanda, Torne Valley, October 2023 to May 2024. Recorded on Fostex R8 reel-to-reel 8-track, except nylon-stringed guitar on tracks 3, 5, 7 initially recorded on Telefunken magnetophon mc-200, subsequently transferred to 8-track.

All lyrics, music, artworks, mixing, mastering by noemienours, except
last sentence of track 2, taken from Aristotle's ”History of animals”, first sentence of track 8, taken from Nietzsche's ”Menschliches, Allzumenschliches”.

Audio files with updated mastering uploaded May 20th 2024.

noemienours' 8th proper LP is definitely the most forward-looking album in the whole noemienours discography so far, taking the ”Dry Path” signature sound into a far more progressive post-folk-metal dimension, reminiscent of opera-influenced folk metal, such as Enslaved or late Bathory, but with influences such as Purcell, Rameau, Ornette Coleman, Jan Garbarek and Sami shamanism. Its core sound approach will remind of lofi classic records such as ”Burning Kingdom/Wild love” era Smog, ”Rural Psychedelia” era FSA and early Burzum but developed into a further post-ontological philosophical perspective defying regular physics to highlight the philautic inconsequence of mainstream anthropocentrism and its failure to formulate itself into any form of consistent scientific concept.
Among the more untamed moments of the album, ”The High Neuro-Degenerative Dwarves” resumes where F. Couperin had left us in ”The Dry Path” to develop a real harmolodic hit, reminiscent of Jim O'Rourke's cover of ”Fast Car” or even Sonic Youth circa ”Diamond Sea” in the most unlikely manner; while ”The Highly Consultative Role” brings a more laidback finale highlight, pushing Secret Stars-style songwriting to a higher standard of post-bossa nova decreative* helplessness.
The recording of this album was a longer and more arduous process than previous noemienours album, as the noemienours reel-to-reel 8 track showed several signs of health issues that needed repeated servicing during the whole length of the whole recording. Most of the harpsichord, guitar, drums and kantele recordings where made during a very cold winter in Norrbotten with temperatures around -20 to -30 degrees celsius, the final vocals were then recorded in May, as the last snow was melting in the forest, taking advantage of the longest meditative perspective this long winter had to offer. At a conceptual level, the album was initially developed as some sort of critical essay, trying to figure out and overcome the politically-oriented failures of Refused's ”The Shape of Punk to Come” in relation with Charles Maurras' ”The Future of Intelligence” with a post-ontological perspective highly endebted to Emmanuel Levinas' works, but, of course, replaced in the framework of the raw forest in its evident magical sensitivity.

*https://fleurmach.com/2016/03/20/simone-weil-decreation/

This is noemienours records #20.
Tags: devotional alchemy anti-hegelianism aristotle bears blackgaze earlymusic harmolodics jojk meditationibus outsider post-bossa nova shamanism sno-fi Sweden