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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
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