Format: Cassette, Album Label: A Colourful Storm – acolour057 Country: Australia Year: 2026 Genre: Alternative, Indie Condition: NM Sleeve: NM Tracklist: 1 The Burbs 2 Measuring Time With Time 3 The Unshadow 4 False Sonflower 5 The Aside 6 The Confided Matter 7 Waiting for Water 8 Stock 9 The Lawns
Planted and watered by Horn of Plenty's Deutsche operative Nein Rodere (aka David Roeder) and Providence-based PPM-affiliated Nowhere Flower (aka Lila Jarzombek), Nein Flower roots itself in wyrd folk and outsider musick history, sucking up nutrients from Christina Carter, Sun City Girls, The Shadow Ring and Jandek in the process.
We can't be sure whether Roeder and Jarzombek were in the same room together when these ramshackle tracks were made, but 'Nein Flower' sounds spontaneous in a way that feels unconnected to modern wireless technology. They're both visual artists as well as musicians, and found a deep connection, despite growing up on different continents. And although both locations clearly feed into the music - Berlin's restless, punkish isolation and Providence's basement-dwelling, lo-fidelity introspection - the session sounds like it was recorded from beginning to end in a third space, directly to tape.
It's as if Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris (circa 'City Lights') were tasked with recording an early Charalambides side - blown out, dissonant and poetic - but strangely tuned in with folk history, too. Both Roeder and Jarzombek seem to share all duties, with Jarzombek's smudgy coos wisping and whirling around Roeder's surreal Lou Reed-inspired narrations and instrumentation, appearing and falling away unceremoniously.
Nein Flower is about capturing the moment; an impromptu back-and-forth that’s fully mesmerising. In the accompanying press release, the duo talk about naïve art and no-frills performance; composition, they explain, is landscape painting and their details are fully revealed when you look a little closer, finding elements that are less obviously premeditated. And honestly, it's a technique that works for them - not only does the album feel completely honest in a way that's genuinely charming, but it places them in an unusual artistic plane that's teetering between nostalgia and innovation. It's tangible, messy and alluring stuff, intimate, often grotesque, always compelling.