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ALBUM "RIDE ON A BRAND NEW TIME"
TRACKLIST :
1. SEVERAL KINDS
2. ECHOTROPIC
3. RIDE ON RIDE ON
4. FUSES APES & DOPPLER
5. SHAADONGA FALLS
6. BIRDS NO BIRDS
7.OXALA MON AMOUR
8. HURRICANE
9. MMM WHAT CURSE?
10. STELLAR SUBKINGDOM

B I O :

ECHOTROPIC, the 4-track EP released in June 2008, provided us with a foretaste of the dazzling new album RIDE ON A BRAND NEW TIME,
which will come out in the UK and Germany on March the 16th 2009. French, Benelux and Spanish on February the 3rd 2009.

CUBICO-FOLK, WILD EXOTICA, PSYCHEDELIC ODYSSEY
NLF3's music has been described as "a kitsch This Heat" by The Wire, and compared for its rhythms to a 2009 version of the Ege Bamayasi-era of Can. The Guardian even spoke of them as "a Radiohead seduced by the idea of live improvisation". The members of NLF3 - F.lor, Mitch and Don Nino - name influences as varied as Pierre Henry, Fela Kuti, Steve Reich, Ennio Moricone, as well as Syd Barrett, Zappa, Fantomas, Aphex Twin, and Sonic Youth. Strange gurus indeed, for a music that, after all these comparisons, still sounds unique. NLF3 is the story of three music lovers – two brothers in blood and a third in spirit – united by the same passion: to make music, record it and take it all around the world. In that regard, their kinship with Battles and Animal Collective, with whom they have toured, seems perfectly natural - they all belong to the same generation of musicians and have the same desire to discover new territory, to explore new possibilities and to bring together past and future. It comes as no surprise either that the brothers F.lor and Don have lived in Germany as well as the US, and have spent some time in Nigeria where their father introduced them to the great Fela Kuti and others like the sculptor Twin Seven Seven.

RIDE ON A BRAND NEW TIME
The new album was recorded and mixed by F.lor in Paris between July 2007 and July 2008, and mastered in Los Angeles by John Golden. The first takes were recorded at the Microbe studio on a rare Euphonix mixing desk, and were later arranged at studio PUSH, in the 18th arrondissement. It was in the cavernous heart of this strange underground laboratory that the three-piece diligently crafted their efficient but ambitious songs. Amplified kalimbas, reverb-drenched guitars, catchy rhythms, vintage keyboards and psychedelic vocals invoke the holy trinity - Fela Kuti, Brian Eno and Tom Zé (the one of tropicalism ) - and take the listener on a voyage through a fantastical and enchanting world, perfectly illustrated by the work of Japanese artist Yu Matsuoka.

D I S C O:
Double CD / DIGITAL : 'Part 1 - Part 2' (Prohibited Records 2000)
CD/LP / DIGITAL 'Viva !' (Prohibited Records 2003)
CD / DIGITAL 'Music For Que Viva Mexico!' (Prohibited Records 2006)
EP CD / VNL / DIGITAL "Echotropic" (Prohibited Records 2008)
CD/ LP / DIGITAL "Ride on A Brand New Time" (Prohibited Records 2009)

S I T E S:
www.youtube.com
www.myspace.com/nlf3
www.virb.com/nlf3

"THIS THREE PIECE AT THE FOREFRONT OF PARIS MUSIC SCENE GIVES THE EXPLORATORY NATURE OF THE PLAYING AND THE REALTIME LIVE SAMPLING. THIS MESMERIC MEANDERING MUSIC RECALLS A RADIOHEAD SEDUCED BY THE IDEA OF LIVE IMPROVISATION"
THE GUARDIAN 2000

"THESE STRONG INSTRUMENTALS HAVE A BEAUTIFULLY RECORDED ANALOGUE FEEL : DRIVEN, GUTSY & PASSIONATE"
SLEAZENATION 2000