We're very happy to anounce Napoli is not Neapl and his new CD BOREDOM IS ALWAYS COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY

Hailing from Cologne, Napoli Is Not Nepal is a one-man project featuring Hendryk Martin. His first musical influences came straight out of the Hardcore scene: With the Hardcore outfits Chastment and Blew, he got his first two bands together, with whom he reached a small but enthusiastic audience and released some 7” records. After both had broken up, he decided to start his own project: he wanted to try out different kinds of music and play around a little; thus he began to mix electronica with a traditional style of music. Napoli Is Not Nepal was born. Finally Martin found his own style and created his very own variation of pasta sauce.

His music’s main feature is the combination of technical sounds with traditional music, creating a fresh and innovative style. By always searching for new styles and techniques, he repeatedly reinvents the typical NINN sound. For NINN, the sky is not the limit, and thus he  never sounds the same. There’s no textbook for NINN’s style, he just creates the sound he likes.

On his Shitkatapult debut „revolv_er“, NINN combined fragments of jazz music with clicker sounds. It was a try-out period for strange but interesting song titles. Martin wanted to irritate – but still they spoke in clear pictures: „A Night In The Bunker“, „Living in Soundwaves““They´ve Never Had The Popsense“ .... They implicated what it was all about: Electronic monotony combined with aesthetic organics and quite a good portion of nihilism was, and still is, the stylistic focus as you could hear on „Boredom Is Always Counterrevolutionary“.

The main target of the musical production was to create new sounds  indispensably intertwined with a wide range of harmonies and even more  nihilism… Ecotronics: back to melody and rough but smart and significant sound-design, far away from typical dancefloors but unique and good for afterhour-lounge-beach-settings in the morning hours. Or just to explore music as music. Play instruments (guitars, rhodes,bass, strings) and use them as what they are made to use. To make music.
This new initial process of writing songs once again gave NINN a platform to reinvent himself and create his very own innovative and unique style.

„Straight Edge“ (Minor Threat)
 „Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.“ (Brian Eno)
 „I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.“ (David Byrne)
 „Kick Out the Jam“ (MC 5)