Year Of The Sun Records Signs European Metal Outfit NAMI
April 25, 2011, 13 years ago
European metal outfit NAMI has signed with Year Of The Sun Records for the release of their new album, Fragile Alignments, in North America this spring. The album will also be released by Kaiowas Records in Spain and Season Of Mist/Klonosphere in France.
Nami’s complex sound is often compared to OPETH, MESHUGGAH and GOJIRA. Year Of The Sun Records has made some of the band’s new songs available for streaming and download at this location.
“Ever since Year Of The Sun contacted us, we haven’t been able to stop thinking about our music crossing the ocean, a fact that is reinforced by the optimism and the wonderful attitude of this label. We are more than happy to sign on with Year Of The Sun Records!!! We just feel at home,” commented Drummer Sergi Verdeguer.
With Fragile Alignments, Nami has constructed a journey that is rich with emotion and forged by a legitimate heaviness. After completing the initial recording of Fragile Alignments the band traveled to Örebro, Sweden where legendary producer Jens Bogren (Opeth, AMON AMARTH, KATATONIA) put the finishing touches on the project by mixing and mastering the new record.
“When I first heard Nami, I was blown away by the strength and maturity from this young act,” states Bogren. “Watch out, great metal is climbing down from Andorra.”
In fact, Bogren’s impression of the band is also strongly echoed by Year Of The Sun president C. Benner. “When I first listened to Fragile Alignments I realized that there was something special happening within the first ninety seconds,” says Benner. “It was immediate. Then I spoke to the band about the concepts behind the music, it then it really blew me away.”
The new record is a conceptual album where every song is a part of the same story with the distinction of there being various orders that you can listen to the songs in.
"They're not in chronological order which gives the listener a few different ways to listen to the album,” adds Sergi Verdeguer. “The starting point of the album is freedom, represented by the capacity of choice by a single human being. He proceeds on a journey, surrounded by reflections of good or right and evil or wrong. Fragile Alignments is a project that we've worked really hard on and I think it shows in the content of this record. We've really put our heart into it."
