#nene h

[grrl-beetle]

J. Kim

[radiophd]

Fukken Lie, by Nene H

from the album Trifecta

nene h -- fukken lie

[chaoselph]

Ali علي from Nene H

[bedouinrecords]

[areoprodigia]

The cover says everything before a single track loads. Nene H stands with her back to the camera, turned away from whatever came before — a posture of departure, of having already moved on. Second Skin is a breakup album that refuses the usual grief spiral. It arrives as something harder and more interesting: a document of becoming. The album pulses with industrial weight, most viscerally on “Cradle,” the lead single that opens like a Nitzer Ebb transmission — drums hammering, vocals fragmenting into syllables before expanding into full phrases. It is the kind of track that owns a club floor at 2am, and Nene H knows it. “Promises, promises” follows with an angular swerve, restless and inebriated in its momentum. The arc across the full album moves from the advancing drone of “Where was I” — voice looped into curtains of sound, dissolving into near-silence — through the techno-industrial assault of “Back to Beste” and the tribal percussion of “Deliverance.” By the time “The Castle” closes things out, the artist has grown into something self-contained. The machine does not wind down. It stays on its feet. Nene H keeps her voice at the edges throughout, a reminder of the human embedded inside the industrial architecture. In the rubble of a relationship, the cold becomes a resource. Second Skin is the natural skin — the real one, finally exposed. Second Skin by Nene H

[thehollowchord]

Nene H – Second Skin: The Body Reclaimed

The cover says everything before a single track loads. Nene H stands with her back to the camera, turned away from whatever came before — a posture of departure, of having already moved on. Second Skin is a breakup album that refuses the usual grief spiral. It arrives as something harder and more interesting: a document of becoming.

The album pulses with industrial weight, most viscerally on "Cradle," the lead single that opens like a Nitzer Ebb transmission — drums hammering, vocals fragmenting into syllables before expanding into full phrases. It is the kind of track that owns a club floor at 2am, and Nene H knows it. "Promises, promises" follows with an angular swerve, restless and inebriated in its momentum.

The arc across the full album moves from the advancing drone of "Where was I" — voice looped into curtains of sound, dissolving into near-silence — through the techno-industrial assault of "Back to Beste" and the tribal percussion of "Deliverance." By the time "The Castle" closes things out, the artist has grown into something self-contained. The machine does not wind down. It stays on its feet.

Nene H keeps her voice at the edges throughout, a reminder of the human embedded inside the industrial architecture. In the rubble of a relationship, the cold becomes a resource. Second Skin is the natural skin — the real one, finally exposed.

Second Skin by Nene H

[thenewobjective]

Nene H ~ Second Skin

Breakup albums are extremely difficult to pull off.  In order to succeed, one must navigate a wide gauntlet of emotions without coming across as either crushed or petty.  A great breakup album doesn’t just stick it to the other person; it celebrates the health and the freedom of the one who is making the music. We are happy to report that Second Skin succeeds, starting with the cover image, where…

Nene H ~ Second Skin

[todays-soundtrack]

Stone Techno X Zollverein w/ Oscar Mulero, Rødhåd, Nene H, Colin Benders, Jamaica Suk and Vril

This one resides somewhere in the back of my head for about a month now, and pops up on various occassions every now and then. Things, settings, sounds, music around remind me of it. Today’s trigger was Rødhåd & Vril’s album as Out of Place Artefacts.

Line up goes like this: Colin Benders, Jamaica Suk, Rødhåd & Vril as out of Place Artefacts, Nene H and Oscar Mulero.

Not exactly what one would expect from these names. But “stone techno” is accurate enough. Really impressed by the effort The Third Room has put into it. This is how the creators briefly describe this project:

The Ruhr Museum and The Third Room combine science and music in “STONE TECHNO”. To this end, they are inviting top international artists such as Colin Benders, Nene H, Oscar Mulero, Rødhåd, Jamaica Suk and Vril to set a spectacular exhibition tour to music with sampled sounds from the cultural history of mining in the Ruhr region and other treasures from their record collections. The coal washing plant of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex and the recently opened exhibition depot of the Ruhr Museum are thus transformed into a synaesthetic time tunnel…