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Number None

improvised ecstatic drones

About Me

The Chicago duo NUMBER NONE formed in 2001. Using a broad variety of sound sources (guitar, harmonium, thrift-store keyboards, analog electronics, flutes & whistles, Tibetan singing bowls, field recordings, mangled vinyl, digital fuckery, effects pedals, and feedback loops) they create terrifyingly beautiful noiseworks and spaciously drifting droneworks.
They have released one CD and three CD-Rs through Rebis, and a 3" CD-R through Mike Tamburo's New American Folk Hero label. Additional 2005 releases are expected on Apostasy Recordings and Sloow Tapes.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/18/2005
Band Website: imaginaryyear.com/rebis/number_none.html
Sounds Like:
"akin to the noise generated by the rusty engines of a Lancaster bomber reunion formation, looking low and foolhardily overhead. Filthy, flaking away, recrudescing, scalding and intensifying" (David Stubbs, The Wire)
"like the vapourised essence of [Bowie's] Low." (Chris Sharp, The Wire)
"moves from Terry Riley-like electronic keyboard drone to William Basinski styled disintegrating tape loops and Keith Rowe generated radio dial tweakings" (Edwin Pouncey, The Wire)
"as alien and frightening as Omit or even Sunroof!" (Mats Gustafson, Broken Face)
"a less magickal version of the music made by Coil but equally unsettling." (The Unbroken Circle)
Record Label: Rebis
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Fugue State festival

Months in planning, we are happy to finally announce the impending arrival of Fugue State!  Fugue State is a 2 night festival celebrating extended, experimental song-forms and drone-states as per...
Posted by Number None on Wed, 02 May 2007 07:16:00 PST

# None w/Mike Tamburo, Ben Vida 4/25

There will be some good music happening in the middle of the week this week: at the Lakeshore Theatre, 3175 N. Broadway.  Mike Tamburo will be dropping in, in the midst of one of his epic cross-c...
Posted by Number None on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:35:00 PST

Big End-of-Year REBIS sale! Number None and more!

Still don't have a copy of Urmerica? What about Jazzfinger's Autumn Engines?  The self-titled White/Light debut cd?  Well, here's an incentive if you ever needed one to catch up on all of th...
Posted by Number None on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:56:00 PST

Th' Exceptional Child plays 8/1 @ Mr. City, Chicago

Th' Exceptional Child, a new solo project from one-half of Number None, will be debuting a delicious set of distorted devotional drones tomorrow evening, 8/1, at the Mr. City space here in Chicag...
Posted by Number None on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:15:00 PST

Number None interview/ new Rebis releases!

Newcastle-based music journo (and very nice man) Scott McKeating conducted an email interview with us over the past few months, the fruits of which have been published here: http://www.stylusmagazine....
Posted by Number None on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:41:00 PST

Lichfields cs on Gold Soundz

New Number None release entitled Lichfields is now available on Sindre Bjerga's always reliable Gold Soundz label out of Norway. Gayle Melody Bar said of it: "One side of tunnels of shi...
Posted by Number None on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:56:00 PST

east coast tour Mar 24-27

Next week, Number None and minimalist electronic droners Son of Earth join UK noise lads Birds of Delay on their first US tour.Dates are as follows:Saturday, March 25 - Northampton, MA (afternoon show...
Posted by Number None on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:20:00 PST

helpers and hurters / nervous climates

We're currently lucky enough to be able to put up for sale two discs that aren't officially part of the Rebis catalog. First up is the Jazzfinger / Number None tour-only split CD-R, Helpers and Hurte...
Posted by Number None on Fri, 19 Aug 2005 05:32:00 PST