Nu & Apa Neagră concertează în Germania, pentru promovarea albumului "Descântecul apei negre"

     NU & APA NEAGRĂ va concerta în Germania, în vederea promovării noului album Descântecul apei negre, după cum urmează:

11.03. Duisburger Akzente Festival, Duisburg
14.03. Soupanova, Berlin
16.03.West Germany, Berlin
17.03. Frühauf, Leipzig
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     As if it were taken from a story which has not been written yet, this new album of NU & APA NEAGRĂ remains true to its original influences - the Romanian & Turkish folklore and the electroacoustic madness of the 20th Century. With field recordings, pseudo sampling and instruments such as caval, divan saz, prepared cymbalom, synthesizers and vintage sound effects, to name just a few, the group offers a vertical approach towards the sound, one that explores the cultural and primary layers of Balkan & Carpathian spaces which are put into an occidental equation. A sort of amorphous sound psychism, whose depths reveal all of a sudden some recognizable fragments, which could help reconstruct an archaeology of all four musicians' trajectories. 

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live: 19. Februar: Duisburg, Akzente Festival

 
     Reviews of the new album Descântecul Apei Negre by Nu & Apa Neagră
(...)Imagine a perpetual unfolding of rustic events, hencoop cameos of sound, backporch playlets of banjo and mandolin, cascading bursts of some unknown reed instrument, shsh-shaking streams of bubbling single-note penny flute, then huge unleashings of ecstatic reed organ from the bowelsof the earth. At times, it’s as though some Irish reel band had been forced, threatened and coerced into playing just the one monotonous chord, deeply dark and funereal as Sturmpercht at their most threatening. The final near 20-minute track ‘The Black Water’ unites all of the previous explorations, conflating them into one glorious and transcendental piece. Catch these high achievers at the excellent German label The Lollipoppe Shoppe and score your own copy immediately.  

Julian Cope, Headheritage / January Druidon 2012: Nu & Apa Neagră - Descântecul Apei Negre 
 
     Nu & Apa Neagră creates more something of a sound ritual. It has something mystic, a brooding cloudy or watery atmosphere of folk, loops, reverbs. With multiple layers that ever change this is on the edge of a certain chaos or entropy, the creative improvisation of melody, the ever changing evolution still pulls this forward to life, like a cloudy pond with a voice.
The first few tracks reveal water bowl percussion, rubbing and bowed sounds with it, devotional shamanistic words in the background, hand claps on pots, environmental talking voices, bowed iron, some flute with drum like in an outside performance, flutes and earth drum, handshaking bells and later some droning bass. On a next track reverb effects, looped saz, droning bass are added, with changing stereo effect on the saz lead, hand bells can also be heard too. More and different instruments can be heard on the next tracks, while the essence remains the same, there is an equal change of focus. We hear a bit of glockenspiel, some bowed instruments, electric guitars and a female lead voice this time replacing this a little. Then also electronics appear, zither and pipes, keyboards and moody electric guitar and then sax. The keyboards and electronics also take over a more dominant role near the end, the ritual still keeps
something shamanistic, something of a deep in the forest folk origin peeps through, the cloudy dark mists of a swamp keeps it unclear and at a distance from the origin. Despite creating on top and on top of that, the album very quickly ends rather abruptly, the cloudy visions remain hanging in the air… Lot of instruments were used this time.
Gerald Van Waes, Psychevanhetfolk, Jan. 2012: Nu & Apa Neagră - Descântecul Apei Negre
(RO,rec.2010,pub.2011)*** 
 
NU & APA NEAGRĂ Descântecul Apei Negre (The Lollipoppe Shoppe, LSCD 011): Mich wundert es nicht, dass die Banater Heide beste Schwarzerde bietet für weirde Folklore. Alexandru Hegyesi, Călin Torsan, Vlad Sturdza & Sașa- Liviu Stoianovici, in Temeswar zuhause, machen mit Cimbalon & Bassgitarre, Klarinette & Pfeifen, Zither, Gitarre, Ebow, Glocken & Percussion bzw. Saz, Cobză, Gusle, also Lauten von den türkischen Crossroads auf dem Balkan, aber auch Korg, Moog, Harmophon und noch mehr Percussion und Effekten eine Pilgerfahrt. Zum Schwarzen Meer?
     Es scheint eher so, als wäre das Ziel kein Ort auf dieser Welt, sondern ein mystischer Ort, oder eine Anomalität in der Zeit. Da kreuzt sich spacewärts orientierte Sonic Fiction mit klanglichen Phantomen der Vergangenheit. Einer verleugneten Vergangenheit, denn warum sonst sollte der Hahn dreimal krähen ('Al treilea Cântat al cocoșilor')?
Im Vorwärtsdrang wirbeln in einer halluzinatorischen Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen alte Klänge auf. Uraltes Saitenspiel, Pfeifen, Schellen und Getrommel, auch raunende Gesänge, die, sich überlappend, durch die Erinnerung wabern, durch die Zeit kaskadieren, mit Echos von den Karpatenwänden und Klangfetzen, die sich in den transsylvanischen Wäldern verfangen haben, oder an den Mauern von Piteşti verstummt sind. Lautengeschrammel und Hackbrettgedengel bringen das Blut in Wallung, Stimmfetzen werden zu einem Krähenschwarm, die Zeit kreist in
sich selbst. Beim anfänglich orientalisch anmutenden 'Alt Pelerin' (Noch ein Pilger) schält sich wehmütiger Gesang von
     Maria Balabaș aus dem Dröhnfluss. Ich denke, schwarzes Wasser meint nicht das Marea Neagră, sondern ein Wasser, das dieVergangenheit löscht. Doch vielleicht ist es, wie bei Telephos und Amfortas die Lanze, als das, was verwundete, auch das Heilmittel. Daher die Wiedertaufe mit schwarzem Wasser. 'The Black Water' badet lang in harmonisch
rauschenden Spacewellen, mit Bassklarinette, Kaval und Pfeifen als bukolischem Widerhall, mit zartem Zither- oder Gitarrenklang, knurrigem Moog, jaulenden Synthies. Ist das jetzt Ruderschlag? Oder lappt die Zeit rückwärts? Man wird mitgerissen in dieser psychedelischen Odyssee (wie Dave Bowman beyond the infinite). Bei 18:50 reißt das Band.
[Schluck] [BA 72rbd]
Rigobert Dittman, Bad Alchemy # 72, Januar 2012