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News from Nowhere

by Nilson

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‘News From Nowhere’ is a beautiful ghost of a recording. It hints strongly at the acid folk revolution of the early 70s, with its baroque woodwind and flutes, its delicately picked guitar lines and its pastoral and bucolic moods and themes.

The mix of beauty with the eerie is something that Nilson excels in, there are both shadows and dark corners amongst the sunlight and wildflowers here.

‘News From Nowhere’ succeeds in being a timeless recording; future listeners will pick this up and will have to guess at which period this album emerged. For those of us who are beholden to the likes of The Incredible String Band or Mr Fox there is a great deal to adore here … Whilst being its own unique creation and certainly not a relic or a contrivance, ‘News From Nowhere’ takes the best and most colourful from the past and marries this successfully to a more modern approach and sensibility. In hauntological terms the past may well be haunting the future, but in this case it is in a manner that enhances, benefits and goes beyond.
Grey Malkin, Moof Magazine

"Hamburg resident Nilson’s News from Nowhere takes a gentler approach to the eerie, although it is no less haunted for it. English folk and public information films exert an influence, but the focus covers wider geographical and cultural territory. It’s an album lovingly haunted by Old Europe. “Colina” feels as if it exists in the edges of the world of The Wicker Man. “Remember how we used to fly a kite,” declares Nilson, the jaunty delivery belying lost childhoods. It’s about the strongest shadows out in the brightest sunlight and the flute is hypnotically seductive. “And from his blood, the crops would spring” employs the voices of British public service broadcasters and evokes the joy of pagan rituals in service to a Morricone-style anthem of the dispossesed. Whereas “The Dancing Plague” brilliantly re-casts Goblin’s Suspiria theme as pastoral ditty. Nilson pushes things in yet other directions with “Different Channels”, which is lopsided flute-led outsider pop with added electronic crackle. That these influences not only hold together, but form a convincing musical world is quite an achievement, particularly given that the album is over in less than thirty minutes. Time, it would seem, plays by its own peculiar rules."
Stewart Gardiner, Concrete Islands

"The songs have a gentle, pastoral quality, with many of the tracks being led by some beautiful flute playing."
Mat Handley, You, the Night and the Music

"Lovely stuff, it creates and weaves an intriguing atmosphere."
A Year In The Country

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released August 17, 2018

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Nilson San José, Costa Rica

Hauntology-infused, psych folk-tinged exploratory sounds from Hamburg born San José resident Nilson.

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