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Beau Pearl - Roses

stem mastering

Stem Mastered by Nic Nell. Spotify link is the stereo, video audio presently encoded in mono..

Wild Horse Records | 2023

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PAN + TILT

composer

Music & sound design by Nic Nell (Casually Here)

VR Screen recording extracts from immersive project PAN + TILT, an ongoing collaboration with virtual realist artists Gibson/Martelli and costumes by fashion designer Zi Wonderound. The project combines motion capture dance performances, AI generated characters, virtual world and character design and modelling, music, sound design combined with costume design and hybrid physical and virtual performances.

Premiered and ‘Best Immersive Art and XR Award’ nominee at the 66th BFI London Film Festival Expanded 2022.

‘In PAN + TILT Choreographer Ruth Gibson and VR artist Bruno Martelli have joined forces with composer Nic Nell (Casually Here) to invent a holographic universe inspired by the extraordinary legacy of Joan Skinner, an American choreographer, teacher and former dancer with the Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham companies. In this exciting world premiere, Gibson/Martelli creates an experience for two visitors at a time, placing them into a visual landscape that triggers exploration by means of motion-capture techniques and machine-learning processes. Release your inner dancer and re-connect with the physical world by exploring a virtual one.’

2022 - ongoing

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ELY - Are You Invested In The Economy Of Love? Remixed & Reworked

mastering

Album mastered by Nic Nell

‘Karpouzie Boogie (Liam Hutton Remix)’ stem mastered & additional synths by Nic Nell

Algebra Records | 2022

Available on Bandcamp

‘Are You Invested In The Economy Of Love?’ is the debut album from ELY released in 2021 on Algebra Records digitally and as sold out run of limited edition transparent lathe cut 12”s. Digital available on Bandcamp

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ELY - Are You Invested In The Economy Of Love? Remixed & Reworked

mastering

Album mastered by Nic Nell

‘Karpouzie Boogie (Liam Hutton Remix)’ stem mastered & additional synths by Nic Nell

Available on Bandcamp

Algebra Records | 2022

‘Are You Invested In The Economy Of Love?’ is the debut album from ELY released in 2021 on Algebra Records digitally and as sold out run of limited edition transparent lathe cut 12”s. Digital available on Bandcamp

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Rainer - Water

writing, production, mixing

Album written, performed & produced by Nic Nell & Rebekah Raa

Mixed by Nic Nell

Mastered by John Davis

Transparent vinyl & digital on Kissability / Algebra Records | 2015

Vinyl & digital available on Bandcamp

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ELY - Are You Invested In The Economy Of Love?

Algebra Records

‘Are You Invested In The Economy Of Love?’ is the debut album from ELY released in 2021 on Algebra Records digitally and as sold out run of limited edition transparent lathe cut 12”s. Digital available on Bandcamp

Algebra Records | 2021

The debut album Are You Invested In The Economy Of Love? from Lefkosia based musician Henry Walton’s project ELY. A collection of improvised instrumentals recorded over a period of 3 years in London and Lefkosia.


Whilst the recordings feature some of the UK’s top Jazz musicians, including AIM album of the year winner Sarathy Korwar, Collocuter’s Tamar Osborn and Chris Williams from Mercury nominated Led Bib, Are You Invested is most definitely not a jazz record.

Take an indie musician, with a love of spiritual jazz and fusion, and a collection of top musicians, and it's little surprise that this is the kind of album you might get. Full of original ideas which twist and turn, whether they be fully formed fuzz gated riffs or half dreamt melodies and structures, the album grooves, dances and weaves through a collection of instrumental soundscapes that represent various personal moments caught in flux.

As ELY’s Henry Walton says:

Because I’m not formally trained I basically can’t play the kind of music I want to. I was caught in this musical space between two places. What I could write and what I wanted to write.

At the same time I was figuratively and literally caught between two worlds. The world of London which I had left behind and a new beginning in Lefkosia. I was constantly battling with two versions of myself and trying to find peace and security in the middle. The process of creating this album and collaborating with much better musicians was a means of achieving that.

Album announcement track Levante is an ever building seven and a half minute ode to a Mediterranean wind & features local Cypriot artist & Honest Electronics collective member Panayotis. As he reminisces about a simple breakfast, beautifully deft interplay between the sax of Chris Williams and flute of Tamar Osborn begin to take over, swirling into a final flourish of brass and woodwind over a bed of loose percussion and bubbling electronics.

Lead track Dust is a 6 minute groove workout led by the two drummers Sarathy Korwar & Tom Rapanakis. Kowars forays into the few pockets of space sound like repeated attempts to escape the hypnotic back beat. Williams’ frenetic sax lines mimic the claustrophobia often felt when the Cypriot sky is heavy with the Dust from the Saharan desert and was on occasion poetically and dramatically linked to the heaving shelling of Homms during the Syrian Civil war.

Single Karpouzie Boogie, is all snaking eastern sax, dirty bass, synths wiggles and filtered arpeggios again playing out over the dueling drums of Korwar and Rapankis. You think you know when the track is heading until the two minute mark when everything falls away and a harmonised free-jazz solo from Williams takes centre stage over a stuttering half time beat.

The cover art, by artist Max Eru, plays with the idea of a fallen society with no structure or order except for the all conquering power of love. Like the musicians on the record he was given complete freedom to interpret the music and key themes in his style.

Henry is now based in Lefkosia and he collaborates with artists connected to the local labels Louvana Records and Honest Electronics as well as old musical friends in London.

Are You Invested In The Economy Of Love? is the 1st album from his group ELY. 

Engineered by Daniel Trachtenberg
Written, Arranged & Produced by ELY
Mixed by Kristian Craig Robinson
Mastered by Amir Goat
Artwork by Max Eru
Layout by Tushar Menon

All music written and arranged by Henry Walton except
Drums & percussion by Sarathy Korwar & Tom Rapanakis
Tenor sax by Chris Williams
Flute by Tamar Osborn
Synth & Rhodes on Are You Invested In The Economy of Love? by Marios Takoushis

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The Well Of Deep Time

score, sound design

Score & sound design by Nic Nell composed to soundtrack a deep time meditation taking the listener back through the 4.8 billion year history of Earth for the ARIA award winning podcast 'The Long Time Academy', produced by Scenery Studios in collaboration with Headspace and The Long Time Project, which accopanied an episode featuring Brian Eno discussing the origins of ambient music and the idea of the Long Now. The meditation additionally appears within the Headspace app.

The music was released as a stand alone ambient piece on Algebra Records available here

The music was subsequently part of 'PAN + TILT', a VR collaboration with virtual realist artists duo Gibson / Martelli, premiered at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival Expanded Exhibition.

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Liam Hutton - Trials

mixing, production, writing

EP | Mixed by Nic Nell

‘Walker’, ‘Trials’ and ‘Shade’ written & produced by Liam Hutton

‘Dumb’ written & produced by Liam Hutton & Nic Nell

Additional production on ‘Walker’ & ‘Trials’ by Nic Nell

Mastered by Kristofer Harris

Algebra Records | 2021

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Emma-Kate Matthews - Flung Further

mastering, remix

Album | Mastered by Nic Nell

All About The Light (Casually Here Remix) by Nic Nell

Algebra Records | 2021

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Heavenly Stems - Florals

Algebra Records

The debut EP from London based musician and producer Heavenly Stems released digitally and as one side of a limited edition lathe cut transparent green 12” with Florals’ sister EP Shell on side B.

Available on Bandcamp

Algebra Records | 2021

Heavenly Stems is the first solo project of electronic producer Ben Rimmer, founding member and producer of Oxford band Trophy Wife. Following a remix of Lake Turner (Algebra/Kompakt)’s ‘1990’, Florals and Shell mark the first solo releases from Heavenly Stems, working both independently and as the first two steps of a larger body of work, each unfurling a shimmering tapestry of off-kilter rhythms, haunting soundscapes and yearning strings. The music falls to its own rhythm, like a drifting signal from pirate radio beacons bobbing on the bay. Turbulent sub threatens beneath layers of bristling electronics, lifting piano, then violins, as the listener is drawn deeper into ever-shifting imagined landscapes.

Heavenly Stems is born of Ben’s love of sample culture and electronica, and a desire to produce in a way that brings all the feel of live performance into the recording process. Each track is constructed from live takes, sampled, manipulated, re-sampled and re-performed, resulting in a familiar-yet-estranged arrangement. The tactile nature of the composition maintains an arm’s length from the safety of the grid, each beat falling elsewhere but somehow just where it needs to be.

Florals and Shell owe much to pioneering inspirations such as J Dilla, Jon Hopkins and Burial; however, these tracks were also penned as expressions of admiration for trees. Taking a moment to break from the path, the record pulls to another quiet corner of existence, outside, away from the street although still in earshot; heading onward into the dense undergrowth and marvelling at the interconnectedness of it all.

Florals begins with a fleeting memory in Take (featuring Swedish composer Ljudvägg) before the boisterous title track Florals kicks in with misshapen beats and sun-warped synth. A feather-light piano refrain drifts in and out of focus, leading to a crescendo of skittish rhythm and countermelody. Summit conjures the clear air of the mountain top, swirling around in ebbs and eddies, faltering and falling back to give way to Link, akin to Florals in its energy and five-leggedness while introducing a more sample-driven note. Fall closes the EP in a heady mix of piano loops, strings and glitches, and features Italian composer Paulo Cattaneo.

Shell opens with Scintilla, an urgent, kinetic piece. A distant signal is picked up as Overstory gathers pace building ominously, suddenly igniting into a tension that evokes catching a train that is already in motion. Roiling, fizzing synths and drops bring the piece to a simmer before rolling away again on the wind. The Only Thing Happening, midway point of the record, arrives as if emanating from the stereo of a passing car, all driven sub and hazy vocals. The title track Shell rises out of the birdsong that follows, tracing itself into existence in a knot of winding tape and vocals. All at once it breaks like a cresting wave, shingle crashing together as the beat hits, pushed forward onto the beach and pulled back into the surf. Shell ends on Last Year, a bright composition of loops and cello which swells to a fever pitch of cacophony and dies away, hanging on a final note and farewell of songbirds.

The artwork for the EPs is based on interpretations of the landscapes imagined in the music and mirrors the simultaneously constructive and destructive methods used in the record’s composition.

The EPs were mastered by LA based producer Leo Shulman aka Somni.

Typography by João Pedro Fonseca.

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Heavenly Stems - Shell

Algebra Records

The debut EPs from London based musician and producer Heavenly Stems released digitally and two sides of a sold out limited edition lathe cut transparent green 12” with Shell;s sister EP Florals on side A.

Available on Bandcamp

Algebra Records | 2021

Heavenly Stems is the first solo project of electronic producer Ben Rimmer, founding member and producer of Oxford band Trophy Wife. Following a remix of Lake Turner (Algebra/Kompakt)’s ‘1990’, Florals and Shell mark the first solo releases from Heavenly Stems, working both independently and as the first two steps of a larger body of work, each unfurling a shimmering tapestry of off-kilter rhythms, haunting soundscapes and yearning strings. The music falls to its own rhythm, like a drifting signal from pirate radio beacons bobbing on the bay. Turbulent sub threatens beneath layers of bristling electronics, lifting piano, then violins, as the listener is drawn deeper into ever-shifting imagined landscapes.

Heavenly Stems is born of Ben’s love of sample culture and electronica, and a desire to produce in a way that brings all the feel of live performance into the recording process. Each track is constructed from live takes, sampled, manipulated, re-sampled and re-performed, resulting in a familiar-yet-estranged arrangement. The tactile nature of the composition maintains an arm’s length from the safety of the grid, each beat falling elsewhere but somehow just where it needs to be.

Florals and Shell owe much to pioneering inspirations such as J Dilla, Jon Hopkins and Burial; however, these tracks were also penned as expressions of admiration for trees. Taking a moment to break from the path, the record pulls to another quiet corner of existence, outside, away from the street although still in earshot; heading onward into the dense undergrowth and marvelling at the interconnectedness of it all.

Florals begins with a fleeting memory in Take (featuring Swedish composer Ljudvägg) before the boisterous title track Florals kicks in with misshapen beats and sun-warped synth. A feather-light piano refrain drifts in and out of focus, leading to a crescendo of skittish rhythm and countermelody. Summit conjures the clear air of the mountain top, swirling around in ebbs and eddies, faltering and falling back to give way to Link, akin to Florals in its energy and five-leggedness while introducing a more sample-driven note. Fall closes the EP in a heady mix of piano loops, strings and glitches, and features Italian composer Paulo Cattaneo.

Shell opens with Scintilla, an urgent, kinetic piece. A distant signal is picked up as Overstory gathers pace building ominously, suddenly igniting into a tension that evokes catching a train that is already in motion. Roiling, fizzing synths and drops bring the piece to a simmer before rolling away again on the wind. The Only Thing Happening, midway point of the record, arrives as if emanating from the stereo of a passing car, all driven sub and hazy vocals. The title track Shell rises out of the birdsong that follows, tracing itself into existence in a knot of winding tape and vocals. All at once it breaks like a cresting wave, shingle crashing together as the beat hits, pushed forward onto the beach and pulled back into the surf. Shell ends on Last Year, a bright composition of loops and cello which swells to a fever pitch of cacophony and dies away, hanging on a final note and farewell of songbirds.

The artwork for the EPs is based on interpretations of the landscapes imagined in the music and mirrors the simultaneously constructive and destructive methods used in the record’s composition.

The EPs were mastered by LA based producer Leo Shulman aka Somni.

Typography by João Pedro Fonseca.

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