Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan made a selection of 14 global music artists, who weren't nominated for Grammy. Some of them are Mulatu Astatke - “the father of Ethio-jazz”, OOIOO - Japanese noise/post-rock quartet, Russian throat-singers Huun-Huur-Tu, Palestinian rap collective Da Arabian MCs featuring distinctive sound, The Good Ones - Rwandan folk...
"Lack of predictability is what's kept them vital" - PopMatters says in a review of 'Nijimusy', new album by the noise-rock-jazz band OOIOO. The Japanese four-some is an "astonishingly talented band that can often be jarring, unsettling, and even occasionally off-putting. But their spirit of innovation and originality is always present. And they are never, ever boring".
Some delightfully bizarre, punk-inflected jams - Fact Magazine says about the new OOIOO. 'Nijimusi' will be Japanese experimental rockers' first album in six years, and it features a conventional rock set up of two guitars, bass, and drums. It's coming out on January 17. First the song from it below.
