Ghost Rock

Ghost Rock is the new album from the Michigan-based collective NOMO. This is not Afrobeat, nor revivalist funk. This record owes as much to Can, Eno, and MIA as it does Kuti, Francis Bebey, and Funkadelic. The horns are set ablaze and analog synths beam an electrified energy into the music. The homemade percussion arsenal is ramped up a notch, and the electric sawblade gamelan brings gong-like overtones into the tangled vine of synthetic and organic strands. With the loops on Ghost Rock serving as the framework for the compositions the band were freed up to experiment with different ideas and a bigger, more orchestral, sound was born. Helping NOMO achieve this new direction were some heavy rhythmic contributors. Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph lend their percussive mastery to several tracks with Drake's fiery drumming propelling All the Stars to new heights.