The year, 1974. The scene, Dirty Harry chasing a pack of criminals across rooftops in his native San Francisco. The Soundtrack, Nomo's Invisible Cities. In theory anyway. Ok, so Invisible Citieswouldn't be made for another 35 years, but if there ever is another Dirty Harry movie this record sets the scene, paints the picture and allows the actors to interact with in each song in what would undoubtedly make for an awesome movie.
Invisible Citiesis a soulful, brass filled record loaded with excitement, drama, melody, harmony, amazing musicianship and even better tunes. Listening to Nomo play the tracks that make up this record is like listening to a never-ending jazzy jam session in the past where the flutes flow and the basslines boogie. Invisible Cities is truly stunning stuff that's sexy in all the right places and melodramatic in all the others. It's an imaginative listen that allows your brain to run free and create your own world to do with what you please. Pimps, hookers, cops, chases, explosions, thugs, fights, it's all in there and more.
While obviously based in Afrobeat and jazz, Invisible Cities reaches way beyond those genres to create it's invisible city. The album is a diverse effort that crams so many sounds and ideas into each of the songs here that it's hard to keep it pinned down. It's this diversity that allows this record to breathe and stretch out into an all encompassing imagination fueled ride of epic proportions. Nomo clearly fear nothing musically or stylistically and attempt to cover as much ground as they can in the course of nine songs. They do a fantastic job of it as Invisible Cities is a creatively charged album that's picturesque and ingenius and just waiting for Dirty Harry to hit the streets once again.
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