NIC: NECESSARY INTERGALACTIC COOPERATION
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ex-pil guitarist keith levene joins the NIC crew on this ravishing album of laid-back, funky dubadelic tunes... vibrant, intensely textured guitars and keyboards layered over complex rolling rhythms sprinkled with some sweet soul vocals...
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NIC IN DUB IS AVAILABLE NOW THROUGH HAMMERBASS RECORDS http://www.hammerbass.fr/ AND THROUGH ARZA RECORDS IN THE US.WITH 2 BONUS TRACKS FROM TWILIGHT CIRCUS AND SPECTRE THE ILL SAINT. FORMATS: CD, DIGITAL, AND VINYL! http://www.azrarecords.com/ About the NIC in DUB project: The dub project originated from the Scotty Hard/Keith Levene recording sessions. .The NIC in DUB was an experiment not as a remix album but a "mix album"; the invited musicians created their own track out of 3 jams sent to them. Every mix sounds different than the next and all compliment each other. It's a great listen! We want a World DUB Shake Down!!! Thanks so much for your time, your mixes and your blessings. Love, Light, and DUB!!!PLEASE SEND SCOTTY HARD SOME HEALING LOVE AND LIGHT!http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.htm
l?id=f27413dd-2549-48a9-ab88- Vancouver musician paralysed in crashHarding produced Chris Rock CDJohn Mackie, Vancouver SunPublished: Friday, February 22, 2008Vancouver alternative music scene stalwart Scott Harding has been partly paralysed in a car crash in New York.Harding, 44, left a recording studio at about 3:30 a.m. Feb. 9 in a cab."They were driving about a block away from the studio and they were totally t-boned by a car that ran a stop sign," said Harding's friend Heesok Chang."It must have been going really fast because both cars were totalled. They had to use the jaws of life to get Scott out of there."Harding was taken by ambulance to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. He had suffered a broken collarbone, shoulder blade and rib, and crushed the T5 vertebrae in his back, crushing his spinal chord."His back is broken essentially in the middle," said Chang."So, he's got no function below that, no movement."Harding will have surgery to repair the vertebrae Feb. 28."The disc was fragmented and some of the fragments are in the spinal column," explained his mother, Shirley Harding."They're going to operate and stabilize that area. The prognosis in the beginning was the grimmest it could be, but they really won't know [how severe the injury is] until they get in there. And they won't know til Scott's been in rehab for awhile [if he will recover]. Look at Mike Harcourt -- look at all the people who've had spinal cord injuries that have been told they'll never walk again [and did]."Harding was born in Calgary and moved to West Vancouver as a child. He played guitar with local alternative acts such as Rhythm Mission and the Jazzmanian Devils before moving to New York in 1989 to work as a recording engineer.There he's had a flourishing career as a producer and engineer, usually working with hip-hop or jazz acts. He engineered and mixed Chris Rock's Never Scared CD, which won a Grammy Award for best comedy album. He also worked with acts like the Wu Tang Clan, Medeski Martin and Wood, Prince Paul, Michael Blake, Vernon Reid (of Living Colour fame), Leif Arntzen and the Crash Test Dummies.He has a green card to work in the United States but, according to Chang, has no health insurance."What happens is that [American] hospitals will treat you; they have to give out medical treatment," Chang said."But he can't be accepted into a rehab facility unless he's got health insurance. As you can imagine, the costs are catastrophic -- $3,000 a day to be in the hospital, $2,000 a day for the rehab. I don't even know if that's counting all the drugs. I don't know how much the surgical procedure is either."Three men were seen fleeing the car that caused the accident. The car they were driving was reported stolen several hours after the accident.Harding's friends have hired a lawyer who is looking into the possibility of suing the cab company or the people who caused the accident, if they are found. They have also set up a bank account to help pay for his medical expenses, and are talking about doing a benefit show in New York.Harding is fine mentally, and has been receiving a steady stream of visitors since the accident."He's totally making jokes," Chang said."The first night I was visiting him, his second night there, out of the blue he said 'Alright! I'm ready for this to be over now! Can we go to a bar?'"He's so social, he's had such a flood of visitors; we've had to really control it. [He's in this] gigantic hospital, Bellevue, one of the largest in the nation, and everyone knows him there, because he has so many visitors.""His spirits are incredible," says his mother."And he's got this circle of friends . . . I have never seen or heard of anything like it in my life. They have a roster so that 24 hours a day there's somebody with him; he's never been alone. They're doing everything: lawyers, investigators, bank accounts. All this wonderful love that's coming his way is just overwhelming. From all over the world."Friends of Harding who want to drop him a line or get updates on his condition can
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tml?id=f27413dd-2549-48a9-ab88-fd84dd254638Welcome to the wonderful electro-jazzy-funky-chunky magical world of Norway's Necessary Intergalactic Cooperation, or NIC for short [pronounced nick].Based in Oslo, NIC is a fearless band of experienced sonic explorers bound together by a common thirst for musical challenge and diversity. This is a multi-faceted sound, without boundaries, that takes it's influences from punk, jazz, reggae, soul, dub and electronica.A few years back, drummer Ted Parsons [Swans, Prong, Jesu, Killing Joke] spent some time hanging out in London with ex-PIL guitarist Keith Levene, jamming, chewing the fat, having a few beers and making plans to record together. Eventually, a few years later, Keith found himself in Oslo's Mok Studios alongside Ted and the rest of the NIC crew - keyboard wizard Markus O Klyve,
Texan guitarist and vocalist Chuck Frasier, bassist Matti Hansen, audio/dub scientist Fredrik (Kjeks) Kjelman, producer Scotty Hard and an elastic bag full of flexible ideas.This is the result - a ravishing album of laid back funky tunes. Vibrant, intensely textured guitars layered over complex rolling rhythms sprinkled with some sweet soul vocals.And to cap it all they managed to persuade legendary Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær to contribute some beautifully haunting trumpet on track 4, Tume.TRACKLISTING:
5th Bean, Rat, Beast of Eden, Tume, Driftin', 11,
Green Room, 06411, Connectivity, E-plussNecessary Intergalactic Cooperation is released on 10.12.07
on Malicious Damage Records and distributed by Cargo.
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http://www.myspace.com/maliciousdamage79Necessary intergalactic cooperation (n.i.c.) is based in oslo, norway and is no ordinary rock band, rather a musical supergroup drawn together for the purpose of a total global shakedown. drawing from diverse backgrounds in dub, rock, punk, jazz, and electronica, the four members create a potent melting pot of sounds and styles, fusing the past and the future with music that is both timeless and universal... n.i.c seeks to create common ground between established musical genres taking them in exciting new directions... the musicians Drummer ted parsons, a longtime veteran of new york citys downtown music scene, now living in oslo, norway... ted has collaborated with the likes of foetus, bill laswell ,buckethead, word sound projects and a long list of singers and players . his success with bands like prong and swans is a well-documented chapter in music history... he has also played with godflesh and is also a full time member of jesu and teledubgnosis, In 2003 he toured the world with killing joke as a session player, teds distinctive drum sounds can be heard on over 100 recordings... a well-known name from the oslo rock and electronica scene, markus o klyve handles keyboards and vocals for n.i.c., he has played with bands such as far out fishing, please, and podams, in addition to numerous solo projects... as the bands educated musician, markus puts everything in its right place... n.i.c. guitarist chuck frazier originally hails from houston tx and has been involved in several musical success stories from the oslo underground scene - two niggers and a honky, holy toy, and bulldog - to name a few his virtuoso licks and solos are the exotic spice in the bands sound... with a background in punk and rock, n.i.c. bassist matti h has played in such bands as kundalini and horsemen... his uncanny ability to compose odd sequences with his favorite tool (the midi) contributes much to the bands original sound... gabriel montagudo, better known as kanario, adds synths/programming and vocals with a bit of chaotic order to the n.i.c. sound... originally from spain via another galaxy, kanario has since left n.i.c. to pursue other things - and visit his home planet perhaps?... along for the ride is architect fredrik kjelman (kjeks), whose magical sound effects and dub-wise science are an increasing important factor in n.i.c.'s music.
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