It's a collision of Neu!, John Barry, John Coltrane and My Bloody Valentine, which Joe Meek has collected up and put into one great melting pot. If there is any justice in the world should be finding themselves in the best LPs of the year lists come the end of the year, and be a constant fixture on BBC6’s saving grace the Freakzone radio show, in the coming months. Another gem
[Monolith Cocktail]
The tracks swerve into curious realms, carrying static, opera and theremin in their wake. As a result, “We're Almost Home” seems intensely cinematic, with a sense of humour
[A Closer Listen]
A new album by Harold Nono came across my desk recently – which I'm always delighted about - it's called “We're Almost Home” - and that's called “Gold Lamé Neckhold”
[Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone – BBC 6 Music]
Brilliant stuff – off of the irrepressible Bearsuit Records. An excellent LP. Wonderful stuff!
[In-Tune - BCfm]
We’re Almost Home est une expérience auditive, un opus capable de grands écarts et de virtuosité, de poésie affolée et de surréalisme foisonnant, de folie grandiloquente et de maniérisme stylé. Luxuriant
[SilenceAndSound]
What Nono delivers is a brain-bending sonic tempest, with ideas lifted from all corners of the planet. There is oddness and drama, and a whole bunch of abstract glitchiness, and it’s all characteristic of both Nono and Bearsuit. If you’re curious to take a walk on the weird side, then this comes recommended
[Aural Aggravation]
A kooky, experimental music mix of electronica, synthwave, pop, jazz & rock with cinematic touches. An album that's genuinely different. Really fresh & unusual...
[I Heart Noise]
Difficult to pigeonhole, this album is a dynamic and experimental mix of imagined soundtracks, industrial noise, electronic and ambient music that challenges as much as it satisfies. Never less than interesting and frequently magnificent through it’s 40 odd minute roller coaster ride
[The Smelly Flowerpot]
There’s enough left-field avant skronk and cinematic Tom-, Dick-, and Harry-foolery on display to whet your appetite for destructing and deconstructing your brainwaves to resequence what you expect (or unexpect) from a 21st century recording that refuses to follow the rules. And that’s always a good thing in our musical playbook!
[It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine]
A great new album from Harold Nono. Excellent, really enjoyed it!
[Aural Delights - Salford City Radio]
Of course it's album of the week. That's [Red Dream Submarine] from the awesome, brand new album, “We're Almost Home”. Brilliant stuff! There's always room in our lives for a little bit of Nono. Thanks Bearsuit...
[Craig Manga, Wonky Planet Radio Show, Sine FM]
[Nono's] music can be introspective, full-on orchestral, silly, outrageous, quiet, and cinematic; it's poppy as well as abstract
[Vital Weekly]
I'm going to enjoy this [Gold Lamé Neckhold] – and you are too!
[PMS - BBC Radio Merseyside]
This being of course, Harold Nono who like most of the Bearsuit family, has over the ensuing years defied safe and neat easy categorization preferring instead to sit on a left field axis somewhere between trippy and kooky. Coming equipped with a sense of dramatic urgency, ‘menton train jump’ with it’s frantically chunnering locomotive motif panic piles gives a curious power house dynamic to proceedings, it’s something more commonly associated with the pre electronic obsessed Raymond Scott
[Mark Barton - The Sunday Experience]
Super cool stuff!
[Clean Nice Quiet]
We're Almost Home apresenta-se como um disco de relevância afincada, onde cada pormenor sonoro é embutido com um sentido muito focado: conduzir o ouvinte a um mundo novo onde a era industrial, clássica e romântica são revisitadas e imersas num cenário contemporâneo
[Threshold Magazine]
It's impressive in its scope...proper original!
[Bigflower]
Electronic-music artist Harold Nono has constructed a new album for Bearsuit Records. It’s entitled We’re Almost Home and depicts reckless trips and lost chords, hopes dashed and relocated, all within thirteen, impressive tracks
[Bizarrechats]
It's a fascinating album!
[Dandelion Radio]
About two-thirds of the way into this album and it suddenly hit me that I had slowly, without realizing, been pulled into some sort of dream state by the music, where all these unconnected elements lulled me into their nonsensical logic. It was blissful, and I didn’t want it to end...
[Albert E. Trapezoid]
This album is wonderful and the CD’s design is beautiful!
[Pure Spark Records]
The work is totally experimental-driven although always close to cinematographic compositions. From controlled chaos to orchestral arrangements. If you like experimental music and improvisation, this album will definitely have something to offer
[Side-Line Music Magazine]
Inventive experimental music that ranges from cinematic neoclassical soundscaping to off-the-wall abstract pieces. Strange [and] creative
[Bliss/Aquamarine]
A jumble of Kosmiche pop that puts everything from motorik rhythms to guitar noise and wonky pop into a cocktail shaker, the end result messing with yer noggin in a fine fashion. An intriguing listen...
[The Progressive Aspect]
E’ un disco surreale, “We’re Almost Home”, ricco di intense strutture strumentali cinematiche. Una colonna sonora per incubi quotidiani (“Ron's Mental Leap Coach”), dove cambi di rotta sono all’ordine del giorno, tra geniali scampoli art-noise con sax e tamburi protagonisti di una big band jazz-industrial alla Ztt (“Annie & Bunny Got Fast-tracked”) e immaginifiche divagazioni minimal e avantgarde (“I Thought I Was Driving”)
[Ondarock]
Bold, experimental, dynamic and difficult... I went into this knowing nothing about Harold Nono, but now I would definitely count myself a fan. This album is like nothing else in my collection and that’s no bad thing. This album is not an easy listen. ‘Menton Train Jump’ is arguably the most accessible track of this 13 track, 46 minute odyssey through sound. A beautifully industrial blend of chiming metal, bass and sawing strings it captivated me almost instantly.
[Set The Tape]
Consigliato a chi ama la musica di Broadcast, Piero Umiliani, Joe Hisaishi
[Europa e cultura elettronica]
There is a pursuit for unconventional beauty in Nono’s production, which is so feral, ardently undomesticated, that even in the toughest, stridulent sounds we feel immensely pepped up. Hugely enticing sounds! Surprising U-turns are constant throughout the album, a warning sign suggesting not to loosen your belt
[Quaquaversal]
credits
released March 20, 2020
Written, recorded and produced by Harold Nono
Featuring :
Anthony Osborne - soprano saxophone (track 6 & 8)
Frank Wilke - trumpet & trombone (track 8)
Morishige Yasumune - cello (track 2)
James Ross - flute (track 8)
Louis Hillary - synthesizer (track 6)
Bearsuit Records: independent label based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Artists include :
Bunny & The
Invalid Singers / Harold Nono / Ippu Mitsui / Eamon The Destroyer / Haq / Annie & The Station Orchestra / AWSTS / Ageing Children / Senji Niban / Jikan Ga Nai / Whizz Kid / Andrei Rikichi / The Moth Poets..
supported by 5 fans who also own “We're Almost Home”
The musical language used in this album, manages to transmit a wealth of pleasant emotions that undoubtedly achieve immediate attention. Propuesta Cultural
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