Martin Pyne (percussion, vibraphone, composer) and Victor Nicholls (bass guitar, synthesizer), have created a unique collaboration, fusing art-rock, jazz, and dream-like improvisation into a spellbinding soundscape. From intricate rhythms to ethereal textures, their music invites you on an immersive journey of creativity and emotion.
Martin Pyne is a versatile percussionist, vibraphonist, and composer with a wealth of experience as an improviser. Leading an array of bands, his work spans diverse musical genres and includes silent film accompaniment and a significant focus on contemporary dance collaborations. Victor Nicholls brings a rich musical history playing fretless bass guitar and synthesizer. His background is rooted in free improvisation, jazz, wind bands, European folk music, and post-punk groups. Together, they create music that transcends boundaries and invites exploration.
The music was recorded as a series of exchanged improvisations, with each track building in complexity over time.
Martin Pyne: drums, percussion, vibraphone
Victor Nicholls: fretless bass, electric guitar, synthesizer
Mixed and produced by Victor Nicholls
Released 6 December 2024.
Available on Bandcamp, Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, YouTube and all major streaming platforms.
Martin Pyne is a versatile percussionist, vibraphonist, and composer with a wealth of experience as an improviser. Leading an array of bands, his work spans diverse musical genres and includes silent film accompaniment and a significant focus on contemporary dance collaborations. Victor Nicholls brings a rich musical history playing fretless bass guitar and synthesizer. His background is rooted in free improvisation, jazz, wind bands, European folk music, and post-punk groups. Together, they create music that transcends boundaries and invites exploration.
The music was recorded as a series of exchanged improvisations, with each track building in complexity over time.
Martin Pyne: drums, percussion, vibraphone
Victor Nicholls: fretless bass, electric guitar, synthesizer
Mixed and produced by Victor Nicholls
Released 6 December 2024.
Available on Bandcamp, Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, YouTube and all major streaming platforms.
Victor features on a track on Paul James' new album featuring a range of diverse European traditional musicians,
Big Hair - Harry Dawes and Victor Nicholls
Autumn Left
Available here
Freely improvised, theremin, trombone, fretless bass and plenty of electronics.
Life-affirming sounds to lift the spirits.
Autumn Left
Available here
Freely improvised, theremin, trombone, fretless bass and plenty of electronics.
Life-affirming sounds to lift the spirits.
Paul James
Drowned Lover and Other Tales
available here
A stellar cast of musicians. My contributions include fretless bass, electric guitar, lap steel, tuba, electronics and iPad treatments.
Drowned Lover and Other Tales
available here
A stellar cast of musicians. My contributions include fretless bass, electric guitar, lap steel, tuba, electronics and iPad treatments.
Big Hair - Harry Dawes and Victor Nicholls
Love Songs
available here
Dark improvisation with the extraordinary, lyrical Harry Dawes on trombone and theremin. Harry is a member of Wire cover stars, Pram. And plays in Tim Hill's s Tongues of Fire. Not very bass-like fretless on this album, available here.
Love Songs
available here
Dark improvisation with the extraordinary, lyrical Harry Dawes on trombone and theremin. Harry is a member of Wire cover stars, Pram. And plays in Tim Hill's s Tongues of Fire. Not very bass-like fretless on this album, available here.
Evening Star
One
available here
Bass guitar, electric guitar, tuba and loops on this album with Gigi Biolcati (Ricardo Tesi, Banditalia), Carlos Beceiro (La Muscagna), Patrick Bouffard (La Chavanee, Giles Chabanat), Luke Daniels, and Paul James (Blowzabella)
One
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Bass guitar, electric guitar, tuba and loops on this album with Gigi Biolcati (Ricardo Tesi, Banditalia), Carlos Beceiro (La Muscagna), Patrick Bouffard (La Chavanee, Giles Chabanat), Luke Daniels, and Paul James (Blowzabella)
Paul James Mark Hawkins
Horse
available here
Fretless bass guitar on this album with composer Mark Hawkins using sampling to blend the Bhudda bar with the traditional.
Horse
available here
Fretless bass guitar on this album with composer Mark Hawkins using sampling to blend the Bhudda bar with the traditional.
Jo Freya Victor Nicholls
The Difference Engine
available here
The wonderful Jo Freya (Blowzabella) sings traditional songs arranged for electronics/fretless bass guitar
The Difference Engine
available here
The wonderful Jo Freya (Blowzabella) sings traditional songs arranged for electronics/fretless bass guitar
Scarp
available here
Scarp's fiery folk funk/contemporary music ran from 1991 to 1999. After extensive touring in Europe, the band earned the Croix de Charles Cros, Best World Music Album of the Year in France. The track, "Goatkiller" from the album was voted one of the top 20 tunes of the 1990s by the audience of BBC Radio Three's "Mixing It" programme.
Recorded in 1994.
Patrick Bouffard - hurdy gurdy, Luke Daniels - accordion, Harry Dawes - trombone, Jo Freya - saxophones and clarinet, Martin Hughes - drums, Paul James - saxophones, Kathryn Locke - cello, Victor Nicholls - bass guitar
available here
Scarp's fiery folk funk/contemporary music ran from 1991 to 1999. After extensive touring in Europe, the band earned the Croix de Charles Cros, Best World Music Album of the Year in France. The track, "Goatkiller" from the album was voted one of the top 20 tunes of the 1990s by the audience of BBC Radio Three's "Mixing It" programme.
Recorded in 1994.
Patrick Bouffard - hurdy gurdy, Luke Daniels - accordion, Harry Dawes - trombone, Jo Freya - saxophones and clarinet, Martin Hughes - drums, Paul James - saxophones, Kathryn Locke - cello, Victor Nicholls - bass guitar