Nohno:Longitude and Latitude

Longitude and Latitude is the third Nohno album from Dean Dennis (Clock DVA, TAGC, Nohno, Sector and Kibuka) and his collaborator & and partner Jose Snook.
Released via Dennis & Snook's own label: Kodama.
 

This new release is a double album comprising of 21 original recordings with additional remixes by Rod Modell/DeepChord and Andrea Bellucci/Red Sector A.  This latest release expands upon the exploration of memory, place and confabulation, initiated with Nohno’s 2006 debut album: "Metropolis".

Longitude and Latitude is musical travelogue for places visited or imagined. It is an intriguing and beguiling journey during which Dennis and Snook explore place, time and narrative through a diverse range of carefully devised musical works. It is a journey through textures and tapestries of sound guided by the precise command of Dennis ' Bass:  at times holding and shaping the rhythm; on others a funk fueled driver; or providing a melodic framework through which other elements are woven. Fragmented and obscure voice samples populate the music, offering whispers of narratives.

 Longitude (CD1) is more beat driven: stylistically hopping across genres with intricate instrumentation & sound design overlaid across a rhythmic backbone of beats and bass.  This first half of the journey begins with the claustrophobia and smog of a teeming city then sails across storm tossed seas, imagines bygone times in the shade of a Moorish Palace, blows with the wind across dusty plains, strides past a redundant Radar station and hurries through train stations, crowded side streets.

Latitude (CD2) is a slower journey across isolated darkened terrains, along unfamiliar train tracks. It pauses to ponder reflections of neon lights in rain soaked squares or to observe weary workers as they make their way through heavy traffic.  Ducks into shadows on old cobbled streets, halts to eavesdrop on intimate moments, before meandering down a sweeping river to complete the journey with a lullaby for an ancient forest.