Saxophonist Elliot Bergman plays one kick-ass brain-wave monitor. He bought it at a Chicago thrift store and hotwired it through some effects pedals to make it sound funky and ill—as does the entire album, no matter what the leader of this instrumental octet plays. Before making their third CD, NOMO clearly were listening to the feedback-sodden Congolese street band Konono No. 1, and it’s made them sound less hippie and more noisy and amped than ever. They have a deep horn section that plays soulful unison lines evoking chill-zone Blue Note jazz, though they could use a few more climax-inducing solos. Ghost Rock fires the brain—and everything below—because, for all his expansive, woozy loops, Bergman builds the songs around terse dance riffs. Defibrillator, doctor?Download “Brainwave,” “Ghost Rock”