Nomon
This is special moment for us. Today (May 14th 2021) is the release day of NOMON’s debut EP ‘Card II’
Available on Apple Music @spotify and everywhere else, but if you’d like to support us, please go to Bandcamp
Recorded by Eli Crews
Mastered by Ale Roubini S
Special thanks to Jose Angel Olivares Gomez and Michael Carter (aka #menya) for lending their brilliant ears.
Distributed by Symphonic Distribution thanks to Nick Gordon
Thank you to my family Jay Dunkelman Celia Dunkelman Asher Dunkelman
Shoutout to Pioneer Works for giving me a space to obsess over every details.
Last but not lease, #roomies4eva Kim Suchy for the photos and Sree Raman for just simply everything you do.
Album artwork by Nava Dunkelman
Produced by Shayna Dunkelman.
Links:
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/1uB3qZgyqkXEciVWmE9u4x...
Apple
Shayna (left) and Nava Dunkleman. Photography by Caroline Tompkins and Damien Maloney for The Wire Magazine
Took us a while, but it’s finally here
My sister Nava Dunkelman and I have a percussion duo, and it’s called NOMON.
We did an interview with The Wire Magazine recently featuring a medley of our soon to be released tracks.
Here is the interview -
“Playing percussion is as visual as it is aural”, says New York based drummer Shayna Dunkelman over email. “The trajectory of the hands and sticks, shift of body weight, the eyes aiming to strike – the physicality of the performance has a choreographic quality as it is. The body follows a sequence of movements when immersed in playing the array of percussive instruments surrounding it.”
With her California based sister Nava, Shayna is one half of the duo Nomon. She goes on to explain that it was these discussions around the performative aspects of drumming that inspired their collaboration.
“We use a Rorschach-like percussion set-up to capture the naturally occurring mirror image synchronisation. Now, who can ask for a better duo partner than your drummer sister? The music is powerful and intense, but sometimes peaceful and serene. This medley features excerpts from an EP we plan to release in the near future. It was recorded at Figure 8 studio in Brooklyn, New York by Eli Crews, and produced by Shayna Dunkelman with the help of José Olivarez and Michael Carter.”
Shayna and Nava Dunkelman further discuss Nomon and their various other projects in an interview in The Wire 432. Read in print or online now.