NLF3
was born in 2000 in Paris. The Instrumental group was created by brothers Don Nino ad F.lor, right after they stopped the adventurous rock group Prohibition (they released five albums and played more than 400 concerts in Europe and in the USA).

In 2000, NLF3's debut album Part one & Part two revealed a great instrumental freedom and a singular eclecticism of sound textures and instruments.
Viva!, their second album was released in 2003. It is an enthusiastic album, and was very well acclaimed by the press. As a matter of fact, The Wire and Les Inrockuptibles found in this material one of best album of the year.

In 2004, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain commissioned NLF3 for a musical creation on a silent movie. The group chose its favorite film, Que Viva Mexico! by S. M. Eisenstein. They applied their meticulous sens of composition to create a new soundtrack on this beautiful and ignored masterpiece from the pre-war cinema.
The live soundtrack performances which result from this work, had a great success in terms of public and press, and took the group in many cities and festivals; it was presented among others at La Fondation Cartier and Cité de Musique in Paris, Scopitone and Artrock festivals, in London, Moscow..., for a whole tour in mexico including the Cervantino festival and many other outstanding shows. You can read a nice article in Le Monde (Fr) about the premiere in France.

In September 2005, NLF3 produced its third album, based on the compositions created for Eisenstein's movie. Digging the energy of the live performances and still very cleverly arranged and produced, Music for Que Viva Mexico ! takes a new dimension while being detached from the film. It lets one imagine that S. M. Eisenstein, as an invisible conductor, made them transcend their own music. In fifteen titles and fifty minutes, Music for Que Viva Mexico! reveals the originality of the group's universe and testifies to its maturity.

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this was written about them:
"These innovating explorating bands, give to the instrumental music of all obediences the colors of unceasingly renewed and evolutionary reliefs. From Pascals (Japan) to Clogs (the USA), from NLF3 trio (France) to Esbjšrn Svensson Trio or Jagga Jazzist (Scandinavia), they appear as the cardinal points of the most enthralling contemporary musical cartography ."
Les Inrockuptibles

"This three piece at the forefront of paris free-ranging electronic 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

"These strong instrumentals have a beautifully recorded analogue feel : driven, gutsy & passionate." Sleazenation

"Few groups are so constantly interesting" The Wire