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Colours Of The Night

NICK PYNN : NEWS & LIVE DATES :

AUGUST 2010 :

 

 

NEWS :

Latest news :

Nick's new CD 'The Colours of the Night' has met with some great reviews, including 4*s in the Sunday Times, and has been played on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction and Stuart Maconie’s Freakzone on BBC6. See: Latest CD.

Nick has just finished 37 surprise guest appearances with comedian and playwright Stewart Lee at the Leicester Square Theatre. Further forays into the world of comedy include a show at the National Theatre on 6th April with Stewart, and a night with Boothby Graffoe at the Leicester Square Theatre on the 1st April.

A few spring dates are confirmed for Nick's solo show. Scheduled gigs are listed below. See Live Dates.

For shows in the Brighton Fringe this May (and there'll be a few), details will appear here around the 17th March: www.bom-banes.co.uk.

The Colours Of The Night :

Nick’s new album ‘The Colours of the Night’ was released on 5th October 2009. It is on the Roundhill label, cat no. RHLCD09 and will be distributed by Cadiz Music. It features a large chamber orchestra recorded one at a time in his own small studio above Bom-Bane’s Café in Brighton.

Colours Of The Night

Another great year on the Edinburgh Fringe – Here are some reviews

Colours of the Night, Inlingua Edinburgh
Star rating: ****
Rob Adams The Glasgow Herald

Nick Pynn seems doomed to be forever performing up several flights of stairs in a room that holds barely thirty people who will all go away wondering why Pynn isn't playing in a much bigger venue.

It's happening again as Pynn, a man for whom multi-tasking comes as second nature, conjures up multi-tracked-in-situ marvels where massed dulcimers hum palindromic folk dances, plays fiddle tunes to foot piano accompaniment that make their inspiration - toothache - feel almost desirable, and unleashes his home-made cocolele (a hybrid of coconut shell and ukulele fingerboard) on a work of infinite charm.

Every piece has a story behind it, be it sleeplessness in Detroit, the customer at Pynn and partner Jane's Brighton café who bequeathed Pynn an overcoat with treasure in its pockets, or the Eastern European gypsy band who, allegedly, diddled Pynn out of his pen at an autograph-signing session.

Whether this is true or not, the resulting concoction of typewriter keys, carriage return, instantly recorded mandocello rhythm and real time fiddle is as eloquent a letter of complaint, albeit too pretty to convey real indignation, as you'll hear this Fringe.

Colours of the Night:
tw rating 4/5 Rhys Pierce Three Weeks

Nick Pynn performs solo, but displays the bizarre and wonderful talent of becoming an entire orchestra. Through a combination of technological trickery and sheer musical expertise the multi-instrumentalist serves up thundering contemporary folk: by building up dense layers of looped samples, bolstered by the rumble of a foot-pedal base, Pynn can change from one string instrument to the next mid-song. The effect is almost mathematically logical but still manages to evoke a sense of raw spontaneity, especially tangible with the use of a typewriter for rhythm and a self-made ukulele crafted from a coconut. According to Pynn, once on a visit to Italy the summer heat caused his violin to explode, and somehow in his performances the same thing seems all too possible.

Nick Pynn: Colours of the Night
Inlingua****
David Chadderton British Theatre Guide

In a tiny converted classroom in a language school at the top of a steep staircase on Hanover Street, multi-instrumentalist Nick Pynn fills a large part of the room with his amazing collection of stringed instruments, some of which he has made himself.

Pynn plays a wide range of instruments including violin, viola, ukulele, glockenspiel, typewriter and one of his own instruments made from a coconut he has called a cocolele, which he has even electrified. He builds up most of his pieces, each introduced by a funny story, by playing sections into a sampler and looping them then playing other instruments over the top. The result is an amazing sound from this accomplished and imaginative musician who sits in the corner of the room alone creating the sound of a whole band by himself.

Myspace : Live audio and video samples of Nick can be found on www.myspace.com/nickpynn


In other news :
This year will see the release of an album Nick recorded with keyboardist, composer and ex-original Cockney Rebel member Milton Reame-James: www.zoodiac.co.uk

Future Projects :

More collaborations with producer Chubby J aka Justin Langlands (Pressure Drop).

Lee Saunders : Recording Sessions for 'The Puzzle Project'. Nick has played acoustic guitar and violin for 'The Eagles Fly' album. The Puzzle Project is a music/multi-media project written and composed by Lee Saunders based on events of the 20th century. For more information click here : Lee Saunders : The Puzzle Project


Latest Album : 'The Colours Of The Night'
Colours Of The Night
Read more about the CD

'The Colours of the Night', released at the end of last year on the Roundhill label and distributed by Cadiz Music, features an orchestra recorded one at a time in Nick's very small studio.

To read more about the album, and details in how to purchase the CD, click here.

 

 

LIVE DATES :

 

[ : AUGUST : SEPTEMBER : OCTOBER : ]

 

AUGUST :

Edinburgh Fringe 2010 : Nightly except for Mondays : 10pm at Inlingua, Venue 258, Hanover Street, Edinburgh EH2 2DL.

Previews (1hr) : Weds 4th & Thurs 5th : £7.00 (£6.00).

Then : Fri 6th - Sun 8th, Tues 10th - Sun 15th, Tues 17th - Sun 22nd, Tues 24th - Sun 29th 10 pm (1hr) : £9.00 (£8.00).

Tickets available from Fringe website (www.edfringe.com) and Inlingua Edinburgh. Tel : 0131-220-5119.

Nick will also be doing occasional guest spots with Stewart Lee at The Stand Comedy Club.


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SEPTEMBER :

To be announced.


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OCTOBER :

To be announced.


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