Nick Pynn
Location
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Societies
PRS
PRS
Biog
Nick is a maverick electro-acoustic musician living in Brighton, UK. He regularly performs his original compositions playing solo violin, mandocello, steel-string guitar, lap dulcimer, theremin, banjo and wine glasses, whilst live-looping and bass-pedalling with his feet.
Awards
Nick is a maverick electro-acoustic musician living in Brighton, UK. He regularly performs his original compositions playing solo violin, mandocello, steel-string guitar, lap dulcimer, theremin, banjo and wine glasses, whilst live-looping and bass-pedalling with his feet.
Awards
- 'Best Music Act' - The Brighton Festival Awards 2013
- 'Herald Angel Award' (with Kate Daisy Grant) - The Edinburgh Fringe 201
- Arthur Brown
- Boothby Graffoe
- B*Witched
- Steve Harley
- Mike Heron (incredible String Band)
- Beverley Martin
- Otis Lee Crenshaw (Rich Hall)
- The Hanging Tree
- Stomp's 'Lost & Found Orchestra
- Kate Daisy Grant
- In Mirrored Sky (1995)
- Music From Windows (199)
- Afterplanesman (2004)
- The Colours Of The Night (2009)
- Talktapes (2011)
- "...one of England's best instrumentalists and composers" - fRoots
- "..an hour in which Pynn acted the charming, entertaining host as well as presenting music of immense imagination and skill" - Glasgow Herald
- "A magical find in the night" - The Scotsman
Tracks
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A Slower Pace
Slow, mellow finger-picked folk guitar. Simple, warm and relaxed. -
Amore Perduto
Lovelorn vintage cinematic lament for lost love with cheesy electric guitar and strings. So uncool it's cool. -
Beautiful Place
Shiningly positive female vocal over rolling acoustic backing led by intricate sparkling chimes and mandolin. Impossibly upbeat. -
By The Riverbank
Solo picked acoustic-Folk guitar with a hint of double bass. Neutral, positive pastoral soundbed. -
Cinema Paradiso
Amiably emotive, nostalgic accordion tune over steady guitar backing. Vintage celluloid-sounding version of 'Promenade En France'. -
Clerkenwell Casbah
Rambunctious N. African Gypsyreel with violin, cimbalom and raucous reedsover wild, tempo-shifting percussion. The chaos of Victorian street life, with much villainy lurking in the shadows. -
Comedy Vacation
Comedically upbeat skiffle with strumming guitar and exceptionally plinky piano joined by plodding double bass and vibraphone. Sunny, relaxed and fun. -
Country Kitchen
Mellow folk guitar builds with upright bass, mandocello and bouzouki. -
Fantasy Sky
Barbarella gets high on space-drugs in a rolling guitar/ethereal vocal-led, retro-psychedelic cheese-fest. Sexy, if you're French and it's 1968. -
Gin House Brawl
Watch the glasses and chairs go flying for this action packed gypsy folk romp with rollicking fiddle lead and frenetic N. African percussion. -
Green Fingers
Flowing, finger-picked solo acoustic guitar with a warm, laid-back, rustic feel. -
Gypsy Dance Off
Gypsy dance band with accordion backing fieryfiddle lead, steadily winds up the tempo and intensity from plodding to furious. -
Hippy Sunrise
Dreamy retro hippy theatrical pop-rock/choral fantasy dripping with 60s/70s nostalgia. -
Intense Developments
Rolling acoustic guitar and atmospheric folky dronesover urgent N. African percussion in trick (7/8) time signature. Much ado about something. -
Let The Ruckus Commence
Wild,reelinggypsy violin and winds kick up a storm over adrenaline-charged North African percussion. Exotic, sensual and crazy. -
Make Believe
Cute, sunny girl vocal over light acoustic folk-pop backing. -
Making Merrye
Sprightly Mandocello joined by early percussion & instruments in a raucous, merry celebration. -
Meet Me In Helsinki
Impossibly, uncannily accurate tribute to the 60s, Iron Curtain spy movie. Michael Caine gets double crossed again over vodkas with someone called Olga. -
Nicole's Feast
Light retro French-flavoured acoustic jazz with a clattering percussion track played on kitchen implements. -
Nicole's Feast (Promo)
Light retro French-flavoured acoustic jazz with a clattering percussion track played on kitchen implements. (30sec of PMOL136 tk1) -
Off The Beaten Track
Happy, upbeat acoustic Folk guitars over light percussion with violas and Columbian tiple (small guitar). Warm and lively. -
On The Farm
Flowing acoustic guitar-picking joined at 37 secs by light drums, upright bass and electric piano. Warm and upbeat. -
Paris Is For Lovers
Retro-romantic toy piano with French female voice, joined by chamber strings for a dreamy waltz. -
Prepare For Battle
Wired fiddle and guitar over N. African percussion are joined by distinctive overblown flute in a hypnotic gypsy dance to mark something quite intense about to happen. -
Promenade En France
Jolly, amiable, very slightly wistful vintage French easy-listening featuring melodica over steady guitar and double bass backing. Pernod on the terrace in Biarritz, 1958. -
Provence
Gently jazzy/folky acoustic guitar rambles agreeably over easy-listening backing with strings and accordion. Laid back and continental. -
Quit The Rat Race
Upbeat acoustic Folk with picked acoustic guitar, upright bass, light percussion and mandolin. -
Sole Italiano
Sunny Mediterranean kitsch from a bygone age with acoustic guitar and piano over bubbling bass and percussion. Joyful retro fun. -
Sole Italiano (Promo)
Sunny Mediterranean kitsch from a bygone age with acoustic guitar and piano over bubbling bass and percussion. Joyful retro fun. (30sec of PMOL138 tk5) -
Tinseltown Memories
Dreamily urgent fluttering piano figures with emotional solo cello melody underneath. Ultimate nostalgic silent movie passion. -
Wake Up Drowsy Maggie
Rousing, modern version of popular Irish reel 'Drowsy Maggie' with fiery fiddle, dance beats and party atmosphere. Versions available with and without drunken revellers! -
When The Day Is Done
Light-hearted, finger-picked folk acoustic guitar. Bright and cheerful. -
Working With Wood
Leisurely, neutral finger-picked folk guitar with upright bass.
Biog
Nick is a maverick electro-acoustic musician living in Brighton, UK. He regularly performs his original compositions playing solo violin, mandocello, steel-string guitar, lap dulcimer, theremin, banjo and wine glasses, whilst live-looping and bass-pedalling with his feet.
Awards
Nick is a maverick electro-acoustic musician living in Brighton, UK. He regularly performs his original compositions playing solo violin, mandocello, steel-string guitar, lap dulcimer, theremin, banjo and wine glasses, whilst live-looping and bass-pedalling with his feet.
Awards
- 'Best Music Act' - The Brighton Festival Awards 2013
- 'Herald Angel Award' (with Kate Daisy Grant) - The Edinburgh Fringe 201
- Arthur Brown
- Boothby Graffoe
- B*Witched
- Steve Harley
- Mike Heron (incredible String Band)
- Beverley Martin
- Otis Lee Crenshaw (Rich Hall)
- The Hanging Tree
- Stomp's 'Lost & Found Orchestra
- Kate Daisy Grant
- In Mirrored Sky (1995)
- Music From Windows (199)
- Afterplanesman (2004)
- The Colours Of The Night (2009)
- Talktapes (2011)
- "...one of England's best instrumentalists and composers" - fRoots
- "..an hour in which Pynn acted the charming, entertaining host as well as presenting music of immense imagination and skill" - Glasgow Herald
- "A magical find in the night" - The Scotsman