Barcelona-based instrumentalists Coure have set an Oct. 14 arrival date for their debut long-player, Inversum Nema, through Nooirax Producciones. Preorders are up now, if you’re the type to get such things out of the way, and to coincide with that, the sax-included five-piece have a video up now for the song “Ombra Nero Sunna,” which opens the album.

I already noted the sax — bass sax, to be specific, which on the scale of saxophone probably means it’s heavier — and that’s not to leave out the trumpet. Those two effectively fill space that might otherwise be left to vocals, but one way or the other, the focus in “Ombra Nero Sunna” is on ambience. A post-metallic vibe persists, and that blend is the foundation of the impression being made, whatever instruments  and jazzy flourish surround.

Coure released a self-titled EP in 2019, and on the other side of the reality swap, with their lineup fully built out as it would seem they intended, they cast an immediately individual vibe despite whatever familiarities exist, and there’s depth in this lead cut enough to make me believe there’s more depth to Inversum Nema than the simple novelty of its having horn players. To wit, the freakout.

The visual ambience accompanying “Ombra Nero Sunna” further supports that argument, as you can see in the clip below. Not necessarily extreme, but definitely dug-in, and not necessarily universally accessible; they don’t strike as a band looking to hook massive audiences so much as explore and blur the lines between genres. Cool by me, maybe you too if you’re in the right frame of mind. The album info follows, hoisted unceremoniously from the Bandcamp page for the album, where preorders, as noted, are open.

Have at you:

Coure, “Ombra Nero Sunna” official video

First single from Coure’s new album “Inversum Nema” that will be released on october 14th 2022 via Nooirax Producciones

Video created and directed by Roger Creus – https://digitalrowye.com/
All music composed, arranged and performed by Coure

Pre-order the album on Vinyl, CD or digital through https://coure.bandcamp.com/

New LP – Inversum Nema

Coure receives its name from the metal copper- /CU/ -and from the latin term Cuprum. In ancient times, copper was valued for its malleability and heat transmission, and currently it is valuable for its energy conduction capabilities.

Coure’s music is also malleable and ever changing, though without losing its driving essence, just like said metal. The band’s personality entails the entangling of Metal structures with Progressive parts where both trumpet and saxophone replace the vocals and create atmospheres closer to Free jazz and improvisation.

This album is our first studio recording with the full band, we’ve added a bass sax to the original line-up, he is driving us into an exciting lost highway towards a post-apocalyptic dystopian future, full of crowded cities with noise and nonsense, people who live underground in search of metal, in their solitude invoke ancient gods that never come.

It’s the fruit of the curse that began in 2020 and plunged us more into slavery, in this album there is concentrated a part of darkness that we have suffered since then.

It is an inverted prayer to the ancient gods that few pay attention to.

We are not believers. Pray with us and enjoy the journey!

No one will come to save you…

Coure are:
Rowye (drums)
Richie (bass)
Ferran G (guitar)
Pope (trumpet)
Ferran B (bass sax)

Coure, Inversum Nema (2022)

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