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Artist:	SUPER NUMERI
Title:	Great Aviaries
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 073CD

"Super Numeri specialize in long, intense journeys into music that recall Miles Davis' seventies experiments and the work of Can without seeming beholden to either. The product of a unique communal collective, the results are languorous soundscapes, with a use of live instruments and spiky intelligence, which take them a million miles from lazy 'ambient' music. Self-avowed avant-garde traditionalists, the three core members of Super Numeri gathered together ten others for the making of a record which they describe in the following terms: 'Sometimes it's ugly. Sometimes it's immensely beautiful. At all times it's high and glorious!' Listen to a new sound coming from an old place."

Artist:	SUPER NUMERI
Title:	The Welcome Table
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 097CD

"A double album in seven parts ranging from free-flowing sound collage to futurist bop to circular Kraut rock workouts, it's about mathematics, geometry and asymmetry in the 12th century. Consider M.C.Escher and Miles Davis recording Trout Mask Replica on a farm near Blackburn, Lancashire and you're part way there. In this day and age where the lines between genres get more and more blurred and bands like the Animal Collective, Broadcast, The Black Dice and Devendra Banhart are removing the bifocals to help smudge the cutting edge, The Welcome Table fits in snugly -- take for example the epic, hypnotic 24 minute opener 'The First League Of Angels.' Nothing could set the tone better for the sort of cosmic rock that the group specialize in, rhythm and blues stretched out till it becomes abstract, a place where the beats are live but locked and the harpist is old enough to draw his pension."

Artist:	SUPER NUMERI
Title:	Coastal Bird Scene
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 12141EP

"In any other situation you might have thought this was a reference to the young women of Rhyll but with nutsoid Liverpool avant-frot collective Super Numeri, you can rest assured that it is actually an ornithological reference. Since their debut album Great Aviaries came out, Super Numeri have been dressing in strange outfits and taking their brand of English eccentric audio-experimental pastoralism to the people. The Coastal Bird Scene is a ten inch in three parts packed with harp-led minimalistics, a kind of folk re-working of Miles Davis' 'In A Silent Way'. It sucks you into a series of mild, hypnotic grooves before spitting you out on Part 3 with a sudden burst of discordant emotion."

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