Nymph
New Millenium Prayer

THE REVIEW

A crazy New York band that, with the aid of guitars, brass, farfisa, synth, and a female voice that strongly recalls the vocal delusions of the Can, launches into long excursions into the most visionary free form psychedelia.

Four long tracks, a raging river where acid rock, free jazz, psychedelia, ethnic aromas, and kraut rock are all overwhelmed, creating musical bodies in constant transformation, difficult to place in time and space. We could easily be in some free freak community in early 70s Germany.

The primitive Kraut rock à la Guru Guru, early Ash Ra Temple is evoked in "Raag Moon," an acid cosmic flight that glides directly into "New Millennium Prayers," a psychedelic black hole irresistibly drawing in all the sounds orchestrated by the Nymph. An exhausting ride of total psychedelia. Frenetic rhythms, brass and farfisa following crazy trajectories, and the free singing of Eri Shoji make this a completely visionary monument to creative freedom.

Speaking of creative freedom, the Naked City appears, wearing elephant-legged jeans, popping a trip, and giving life to the free jazz delirium "Battle Funk."

"Beyond," a syncopated acid kraut rock with a voice of Middle Eastern flavors and free brass insertions.

Perhaps the term "Free" is the most used in these few lines.

Freedom is the key word to enter the world of the Nymph, a world where genres and expressive limits do not exist, where one must simply let oneself be carried away by the torrent without resisting. The journey will be very eventful, with sudden rapids, but once you reach the mouth, you will be fully satisfied and eager to start again.