Label: Moon Records
Country: Ukraine
Release Date: 2009.05.12

Everyone is already used to defining music by the Kyiv group NimB as trip-hop. I could hardly say that there are no grounds for this – but no more than for definitions like acid beat or electronic fusion, dawn cartoon or smooth optionality. In the end, everything boils down to that it is considerably more interesting to listen to this music than to name it somehow. Atmospheric and inverted guitars, the pulse and melodiousness of the bass, separate patterns of the “drawn” percussion against the background of the not always unambiguous main rhythms – and the interwoven braids of the characteristic, emotional vocal by Olena Sas, crystal-clean and warm at the same time. It might seem that everything is simple – but this is sort of correct, saturated simplicity that makes it transparent and soft inside. Because virtually in every melody there are windows that lead sometimes to other houses, sometimes to other cities or countries, and sometimes even to other time dimensions. Not only because it is possible to hear here, if you wish, various influences.
But also because this music, surprisingly, truly lives on a verge – as though still in a night, but already literally a step before the morning. And that is why it offers freshness and the presentiment of quiet light.