First, Ni is Ni. Ni is neither diatrib(a) nor JMPZ, but neither more nor less than an emanation of both, united for music that aesthetically has neither god nor master, neither faith nor law, neither head nor tail, neither song, or almost. Devotees of aesthetic singularity and curious about sonic eccentricity, Ni loves to tell you stories that degenerate. In fact, the result is neither really hardcore nor frankly electric jazz. Nor R'n'B. Ni would rather deliver powerful instrumental rock that would go into spinal fluid. But it's complicated, so let's not dwell on the musical genre that Ni makes. What's the point? In fact, Ni makes Ni, and that's what Ni makes. Ni. “In two years, Ni has managed to extricate itself from the small niche of Don Caballero fans to venture into lands where Zappa, jazz, Zu-style noise, and Afro trance merrily collide to form a tonic magma, often brutal and shattered, but from which emerges a warmth that is often lacking in this type of sometimes somewhat hermetic hybrid experimentation. Ni instills a human dimension into its meticulously crafted music and manages to go beyond the purely demonstrative aspect that could be, as with many instrumental groups, the fatal pitfall to approach the public beyond initiates and musicians. Efficiency is added to very real technical prowess, bodily intensity quadruples the sensation of mastery and rigor.” NOISE
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