Two new Nimmie Amee releases

27 Feb, 2026

Hi there,
I released two new tapes under my project Nimmie Amee this week. The first I self-released, Three-Fall Dam. The second was released by Hong Kong noise & experimental label Mouhoi & is called Notation Knives.
Notation Knives I started writing a little over a year ago, but some of the sounds on the release are much older. The title track includes a recording I took of the sound of a pair of shoes I love while walking home to my old apartment. A few more astute friends who actually listen to the music I make have told me that my songs are in vignette style, present like a diary, or are cinematic or sound-design-y, which I take as praise. I'm influenced more by sound design than I am by other artists in related genres, truthfully. In my twenties I watched The Conversation starring Gene Hackman for the first time and was completely enamoured by the sound design of that movie. Before that, the sound design of television shows like the animated Tales of Beatrix Potter captured me. I have this pair of thrifted loafers that I love that make a very satisfying sound walking on tile or pavement that reminds me of older movies or cartoons or maybe times when people wore better shoes. A few years ago, I was living a very solitary life and recorded my shoes walking home, and the set of doors I had to pass to access my old apartment, which was in the basement of a small walk-up. The apartment wasn't part of the original design and part of the boiler or work room was broken off into my unit. I access my apartment through a gate and then some heavy steel doors. Listening now to the familiar sounds of my old set of keys, the doors slamming behind me, and kicking my shoes off in the kitchen of my old home is comforting in a way. With that release, the source audio relates very much to the concept behind the song (they often do, in my writing). I often wrote around the field recordings, to try to communicate the feeling that moment in time gave me, to show you the emotion I felt when my shoes made that sound on the pavement or how I felt singing happy birthday to my boyfriend, or in a noisy elevator at a dental surgeon's office.
Three-Fall Dam, conversely, was a sort of exercise. I had played around with an app called Patterning programming drums and based a few songs around that and decided to do a full release that way. Those songs are more about creating a specific atmosphere I had in mind, but aren't as deeply personal as Notation Knives. This release felt a lot different to me than my other material, but by no means marks a change in the course of the project.
I started shipping out copies of Three-Fall Dam this week. Reach out if you'd like one. My artist copies of Notation Knives are in the mail.
You can listen to Three-Fall Dam on the Nimmie Amee bandcamp here
and to Notation Knives on the Mouhoi bandcamp here.
The tapes look like this: