Cicada Sessions EP Review

Nachur is not the reversal of the oxymoronic kiwi response to another round “Yeah Nah”.  Nachur (pronounced “Nature” not “Nah, Chur”) is the chosen collective name of Isaac Chambers and Prosad. Cicada Sessions is the name of the fruit of their collaboration. 

Part dub, part electronica, all chill, Cicada Sessions is a journey through a very natural sonic landscape that defies genre. Post-Pink Floyd would be another way to describe it. 

Being instrumental, the songs aren’t lyric and idea based, so don’t have the forced feel that some songs written around ideas do. Free from the rigid Verse Chorus Verse structure, the music flows and progresses in a very natural, human, sense, as if someone has sat down and used their instrument to tell a story. 

Though only three songs, Cicada Sessions still racks up a good twenty minutes. It’s best to take them all in one sitting, as this feels more like it was intended to be a long song as opposed to a collection of three individual tracks. Try it with headphones too. On my cheap laptop it was easy to miss the tiny details like the cicadas and frogs that creep into the foreground from time to time.

Cicada Sessions is available for download and stream from the Nachur Bandcamp Page (http://nachur.bandcamp.com/).