numün Share "awaken" From 3rd LP "opening" / Album Due Jan 29th, 2025

Call it what you will, the music of numün is a lullaby to fall awake to.

numün is a trio of seasoned New York City multi-instrumentalists Pitchfork once dubbed as ‘savvy navigators of paths less traveled’. The group emits thoughtfully arranged ambient psychedelic episodes that unfurl to the East and West–mixing ambient country tones with non-westerns musical hues. They paint unfolding, aural landscapes with a ‘delicately assured balance of presence and evanescence [that is] arresting, intriguing...intrinsically mystifying…and ‘profoundly subtle’ (Stereo Embers)

numün is releasing its 3rd and latest album on Centripetal Force (US) (Patrick Sansone, Luke Schneider, Prairiewolf, ) and Where It’s At Is Where You Are (UK) (The Leaf Library, Andrew Tuttle, Help Stamp Out Loneliness, Rose Melberg, Norman Blake). Titled "Opening”,  the new release contains 8 songs of ambience and psychedelic pastoral soundscapes that draw as much on the krautrock of Popol Vuh and Harmonia as they do on the desert soundscapes of Bruce Langhorne. As reviewed in Complex Distractions, “Imagine if Ry Cooder, Brian Eno, and William Tyler all came together under East Coast stars and pressed upon the universe to give them a cosmic splash of inspiration."

Formed in 2019 by Joel Mellin, Christopher Romero (Gamelan Dharma Swara) and ambient country pioneer Bob Holmes (SUSS, Rubber Rodeo) numün meld and juxtapose an array of instrumentation: cumbuz (fretless Turkish 12-string banjo), gamelan (Balinese metallophones & gongs), piano, bass flute, violin, guitar, electronics, and synths. This release also sees numün expanding their trio line-up to include Victoria Lo Mellin (Dharma Swara) on flute and bass flute, as well as Willa Roberts (Black Sea Hotel) on violin and vocals.

Their 1st release was a single, Tranquility Base, commemorating the moon landing for London’s Where it’s At Is Where You Are label (WIAIWYA).  They have since released 2 highly acclaimed full length albums, the 1st, ‘Voyage Au Soleil; on their own Musique Impossible label and the 2nd, ‘Book of Beyond’ on Kramer’s (Galaxie 500, Butthole Surfers, Bongwater, Low, Bill Frisell, etc.) famed Shimmy Disc. Most recently, numün released another single, “Salju”, on WIAIWYA, signaling a subtle shift from the evocative sounds of space to the space between the notes on piano or the opening between our head and hearts

ALBUM CREDITS

numün is
● Bob Holmes - High-Lonesome Music (BMI)
● Joel Mellin - Musique Impossible (BMI)
● Christopher Romero - Manyplace Music Publishing (BMI)

Guests:
● Victoria Lo Mellin (BMI) - bass flute, flute
● Willa Roberts (BMI) - violin, vocals

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all compositions by Holmes/Mellin/Romero
except opening by Holmes/Lo Mellin/Mellin/Roberts/Romero

heavenly by Holmes/Lo Melin/Mellin/Romero
craqueler by holmes/mellin/roberts/romero