nihiti

Described by Resident Advisor as “alternately uneasy, bloodthirsty and painfully beautiful”, NIHITI’s music has long been a critic’s darling on the darker end of the spectrum. War, murder, and romantic catastrophe have been common themes as the music has ridden the fine line between the kind of electronic soundscapes that lead to an ambient music commission for Aurora Halal’s Sustain Release festival and the more songwriter material that made them a favorite of Other Music NYC. In the new pandemic era it just so happened that the neighborhood of New York City the band calls home became one of the worst hit areas in the world, suffering in the vicinity of 1,000 deaths in just a few weeks in March and April of this year. Refrigerated trucks were parked at the hospital a few blocks away, and it will not surprise fans of their previous work to hear that reality reflected in these songs. That global catastrophe was then compounded a few weeks later with a more personal one when the brother of NIHITI’s primary songwriter committed suicide... And this suite of disasters came calling just as the Lo Bit Landscapes label was regaining its footing after being illegally locked out of the home they shared with a number of other New York City musicians for 4 years, losing access to all their inventory and a number of completed recordings scheduled for release.