Nimrod by Nimrod
The third and final Nimrod album, released in 1997; rather confusingly self-titled, being the third release.
Originally released on Scratch Records (Vancouver), January 20, 1997
Zev Asher - Digital/Tape Processing, Text, Voice
Tim Olive - Bass, Electronics
Featuring:
Ohno Masahiko - Guitar (3,7)
Uchihashi Kazuhisa - Guitar (2,8,10)
Yamamoto Kosei - Winds (4,6,9)
Yamamoto Seiichi - Guitar (1, 5, 11)
M.V.P. - Text (11)
Recorded in Osaka and Vancouver Winter 1995/96
Tracklist
| 1. | Case Of | 4:11 |
| 2. | Ging | 2:14 |
| 3. | Mongkok | 3:46 |
| 4. | Asinine Q | 7:31 |
| 5. | Boot Of | 1:33 |
| 6. | Loonat | 2:43 |
| 7. | Fewker | 5:36 |
| 8. | Prayland | 2:03 |
| 9. | Bad Sauce | 1:06 |
| 10. | Brittle Gas | 4:07 |
| 11. | Badasssong | 6:22 |
Credits
released February 1, 2025
Original 1997 Scratch Records press release, slightly edited for brevity:
Sooner or later, most of us give up on the rock and roll. All that aggression wasted on bashing and screeching and seeming to be angry about....about..well who knows....it all seems so silly after a while. The gentlemen of Nimrod played the thud/noise rock sweepstakes, but fact is, they were just simply too disorienting a rock ensemble to really appeal to the black rock T-shirt market, beyond their core audience of a few thousand faithful who drank their ginseng because they somehow knew.
Since 1994's The Mighty Hunter/Lab 36b, wholesale changes have swept over the mothership Nimrod. Drummer and resident loose wheel Sam Lohman is no longer in the band. Surviving members Tim Olive and Zev Asher replaced his powerhouse drumming...well,... with no drumming at all. Alongside the rhythmic departure goes as well any faint resemblance to typical song structure the boys may have employed. Bass player/composer Tim Olive has been busy playing/recording/releasing music with Beauty Pear and Twerdocleb. Vocalist/sounds champ Zev Asher has recorded and released much material as Roughage, as well as exhausting himself making a feature length documentary exploring underground culture in war-torn Croatia. I believe I will go out on a limb and venture forth the brave statement that the period between albums has seen Nimrod undergo profound artistic growth. To think it took twenty two releases for Scratch to get to utter that phrase!
As on Nimrod's previous albums, this one features many collaborations with Japanese musicians. This time, rather than cameo appearances, the guests play a much more significant (one-third) role. Nimrod (the album) is a series of improvised duets recorded live to DAT in Japan between Olive and Masahiko Ohno (Solmania), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba), Kosei Yamamoto, and Kazuhisa Uchihashi (guitarist and collaborator with Altered States, Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero, as well as Hans Reichel and Fred Frith). The raw duos were shipped overseas to Asher in Vancouver, where he added sounds and murky narration, and basically completed the puzzle. What we have here with album number three is basically a baffling free-form collection of pieces that somehow fits under a number of genres: Outside jazz, noise, soundtrack, ambient...pushing this recording into any of these corners is taking the easy way out...The reality is this is a damn strange album that will challenge most if not all who dare, and reward grandly those who come back a few times for more.
Original 1997 Scratch Records press release, slightly edited for brevity:
Sooner or later, most of us give up on the rock and roll. All that aggression wasted on bashing and screeching and seeming to be angry about....about..well who knows....it all seems so silly after a while. The gentlemen of Nimrod played the thud/noise rock sweepstakes, but fact is, they were just simply too disorienting a rock ensemble to really appeal to the black rock T-shirt market, beyond their core audience of a few thousand faithful who drank their ginseng because they somehow knew.
Since 1994's The Mighty Hunter/Lab 36b, wholesale changes have swept over the mothership Nimrod. Drummer and resident loose wheel Sam Lohman is no longer in the band. Surviving members Tim Olive and Zev Asher replaced his powerhouse drumming...well,... with no drumming at all. Alongside the rhythmic departure goes as well any faint resemblance to typical song structure the boys may have employed. Bass player/composer Tim Olive has been busy playing/recording/releasing music with Beauty Pear and Twerdocleb. Vocalist/sounds champ Zev Asher has recorded and released much material as Roughage, as well as exhausting himself making a feature length documentary exploring underground culture in war-torn Croatia. I believe I will go out on a limb and venture forth the brave statement that the period between albums has seen Nimrod undergo profound artistic growth. To think it took twenty two releases for Scratch to get to utter that phrase!
As on Nimrod's previous albums, this one features many collaborations with Japanese musicians. This time, rather than cameo appearances, the guests play a much more significant (one-third) role. Nimrod (the album) is a series of improvised duets recorded live to DAT in Japan between Olive and Masahiko Ohno (Solmania), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba), Kosei Yamamoto, and Kazuhisa Uchihashi (guitarist and collaborator with Altered States, Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero, as well as Hans Reichel and Fred Frith). The raw duos were shipped overseas to Asher in Vancouver, where he added sounds and murky narration, and basically completed the puzzle. What we have here with album number three is basically a baffling free-form collection of pieces that somehow fits under a number of genres: Outside jazz, noise, soundtrack, ambient...pushing this recording into any of these corners is taking the easy way out...The reality is this is a damn strange album that will challenge most if not all who dare, and reward grandly those who come back a few times for more.
