Name: Lonely Boy by ellisoniK
Duration: 3 min 7 s
Description: Rockin original by The Black Keys, covered here by The Sumtones - recorded on an iPhone 4s in one live take

Marilyn Manson "The Nobodies" 
(Acoustic Cover)

The Nobodies

Meandering Bitstreams is a sound work developed during a residency at the Banff Centre in the Rocky Mountains in 2009. The terrain of the surrounding landscape is considered in relation to that of the laptop that the work emerges from. 

Published as part of Exploit.zzxjoanw.Gen by Punctum Records.
Curated by Dane Sutherland, 2014, for Collective Gallery Edinburgh: https://www.collective-edinburgh.art/programme/2014-exploitzzxjoanwgen

Meandering Bitstreams: overture for a post-digital opera

electo acoustic composition with taped piano

Midnight On Mir

Dutched based Polish producer Ray Grant took our song 'The Isle Of Misfit Toys' and twisted it into something altogether different, beautiful and gorgeous. 



The Isle Of Misfit Toys - Ray Grant's 'This Is Real' Mix

Give Up The Ghost

Part of ‘One Beat at a Time :  An Arts & Disability Ireland commission for Curated Space on www.adiarts.ie by curator Dylan Tighe.

Written by Kevin Nolan
 Lead Guitar, Bass Guitar by Mark Ellison 
Vocal, Rhythm Guitar, Tambourine, Drum, Hammond Organ by Kevin Nolan 
Produced by Kevin Nolan, Dylan Tighe, Sean Coleman
Recorded at Orphan Recording. 
 Engineered, mixed and mastered by Sean Coleman.

The Coming Of Compete Night recounts a fragmented true story of some of the most poignant moments of the last fifteen years of my life, beginning with my first psychotic breakdown around 2001.
When I wrote this song I was in extreme distress. It was a moment when the last fifteen years of my life tumbled down on me. From my experiences with anorexia to my many many experiences in Psychiatric hospitals, with psychosis, depression, anxiety and suicide. There is a lyrical motif which sings "I need special care".
Special care" is the name given to the highest security ward in the hospital I was in many many times. This song kind of captures a minor break down I was having at the time. Making this song was my only defence against the pain, the confusion, the illness. I think this spontaneous poem I wrote describes the feeling quite well.

Here there is no ending, 
no answers, no resolution. 
Just the work itself 
as I create it and it creates me.  I might die by my own hand tomorrow
 but while I’m still writing,  
I’m still alive. 
As I create I keep myself alive,
 with every pause, word, gesture  and beat.

It occurs to me that
 I am already dead 
all that is present is my work
 I sacrificed my existence
 for the only thing that can
 give me existence.
Ginsberg has said, that to cry is a celebration, that tears are a celebration; a celebration of the deepness of life. For me art is a triumph over pain. Darkness lived, awesomely affects us, but darkness expressed becomes the beauty of the deepness of life and when it takes the form of an expression of art it becomes deeply beautiful to me.

Kevin Nolan started writing and recording his debut album ‘Fredrick & The Golden Dawn’ in 2006, some of it even earlier. After eight years working on it, playing all instruments himself, he finally finished it and released it to across the board critical acclaim in 2014. Hotpress Magazine simply saying - ‘Spell-binding’. He wrote the album while battling with Schizo-affective disorder. "For me this whole exercise is medicinal: sometimes it feels like the more intricate my songs get, the further I get away from my illness." In the midst of making this album he wrote his first volume of poetry entitled ‘Vibrations Of The Soul’ which was published in 2012. Nolan’s last project was a collaborative volume of poetry entitled ‘Schizo-Poetry - Fragments Of Mind’. He wrote this book with Artist/Poet Susanne Wawra and it was published by Shine Arts in 2015. Nolan is now working on his second album and new book.
http://www.kevinnolan.info/




Kevin Nolan - The Coming Of Complete Night - from 'One Beat at a Time' (Arts and Disability Ireland)

'The Round Soul of the World' is the forthcoming album from Clang Sayne. 

The Round Soul Of The World

The Emptying Of The Ashes

Deep Tropical mix

Ivan the casual Terrible

The spider and the fly

Rockin original by The Black Keys, covered here by The Sumtones - recorded on an iPhone 4s in one live take

2015

Lonely Boy

For most of my life, I have been "in" music. This is a scrapbook of work that spans time and context. Some of it is solo, some collaborative, representing everything from straight ahead popular music to experimental and downright weird stuff. Some are mere sketches, others more developed pieces. All are attempts to capture the kind of magic only music allows. Please enjoy

Lonely Boy

ellisoniK

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