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Nachur - Cicada Sessions EP Review

26 Jul 2013 // A review by Peter-James Dries

Nachur is not the reversal of the oxymoronic kiwi response to another round “Yeah Nah”.  Nachur (pronounced “Nature” not “Nah, Chur”) is the chosen collective name of Isaac Chambers and Prosad. Cicada Sessions is the name of the fruit of their collaboration. 

Part dub, part electronica, all chill, Cicada Sessions is a journey through a very natural sonic landscape that defies genre. Post-Pink Floyd would be another way to describe it. 

Being instrumental, the songs aren’t lyric and idea based, so don’t have the forced feel that some songs written around ideas do. Free from the rigid Verse Chorus Verse structure, the music flows and progresses in a very natural, human, sense, as if someone has sat down and used their instrument to tell a story. 

Though only three songs, Cicada Sessions still racks up a good twenty minutes. It’s best to take them all in one sitting, as this feels more like it was intended to be a long song as opposed to a collection of three individual tracks. Try it with headphones too. On my cheap laptop it was easy to miss the tiny details like the cicadas and frogs that creep into the foreground from time to time.

Cicada Sessions is available for download and stream from the Nachur Bandcamp Page (http://nachur.bandcamp.com/).

 

About Nachur

Nachur (pronounced Nature) is the new project from producer and multi-instrumentalist’s duo: Isaac Chambers and Prosad.

Originally from New Zealand and Canada respectively they met in early 2012 and set about combining their unique ideas, influences and diverse skills to create live electronica. The pair set up a temporary studio in an old bus overlooking the ocean of Abel Tasman National Park and began creating songs from scratch.

While Prosad is originally from Canada, both artists feel a calling to Aotearoa (New Zealand) as a deep source of inspiration and in some ways a spiritual and musical home. The ancient landscapes of New Zealand provide the ideal backdrop for the creation of soulful music with deep roots… a fusion of organic tradition with electronic evolution.

Visit the muzic.net.nz Profile for Nachur

Releases

Cicada Sessions
Year: 2013
Type: EP

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