Recorded live [direct from a little mixing desk] in a little backstreet studio in Brighton on a cheap Zoom H2 recorder.
Lee Nicklen playing/improvising on Hammond Organ and Rhodes piano.
Simon Hill improvising on bass

11th October 2013

Lee Nicklen (Hammond Organ/Rhodes Piano) & Simon Hill (Bass)- [Lyman Woodard Dirty Tape Tone Mix]

A jam on a whim - recorded on a Zoom H2 recorder - mastered by Lee Nicklen.  That's all: 23rd January 2014

Jazz Club - 23.01.14 - Section 4 Simon Hill - Toby Sendall - Lee Nicklen - Alex Kirkwood

Melancholy and delicious sound for TV and film.  To make others think in a different way. Or not?  :O) 

Intermission

A song for M.I.A.

Every note played.  Every melodic tone thought of.  Every extra pause in M.I.A's breath added.

M.I.A. ~ Lee Nicklen

Lee Nicklen - Marvin Gaye - A Scary Thing Is Every Thang - -MASTERED

Music for the online game Skywire was composed by Lee Nicklen in February 2007.
A game fan decided to reverse this original theme music and send it to me.   I decided to adjust my theme a little, so it would work both played forward and in reverse - just for fun!

Try it out and reverse this music for yourselves!  It works perfectly!


Lee Nicklen - Skywire Theme - Forward + Reverse

Thunder Storm - Friday 18th July 2014 @ 1.40am
Recorded on a Zoom H2 Digital Recorder

Thunder Storm - 1.40am - 18.07.14

Ian Price with 'The Columbia Is Lost' trio band - 07 Rehearsal 18th May 2012 (Sax Bit) @ Ians' Favourite place-to-be @ New England House rehearsal studio.

This is an improvised jam.  We hoped Ian would be here as we turned up.  And he was.  How wonderful!  Ian playing baritone oboe (I think, from what I remember.)  Amazing and beautiful memories kept forever, thanks to the Zoom H2 recorder!  X

Ian Price with "The Columbia Is Lost" - 07 Rehearsal 18 05 12 Sax Bit

Lee Nicklen - Theme - September - 2014

A quick piece of music composed in Cubase and a single keyboard - in 7/8 time - for a computer/smart-phone game called "Switch" by French programmer/coder and puzzle-maker, Laurent Victorino.  The music was not used in the end, due to the fact that no  music wasn't actually necessary for the game, as silence - apart from a few sound effects - suited the puzzle game so much more.  

So here it is, for public interest.

Lee John Nicklen

Switch - Lee Nicklen - Long Edit

Lagos W  Bongos # 2


A track I composed for a company not so long ago: 14th April 2011

Cubase sequencer used.  Everything played realtime and recorded - as ever!

Lee Nicklen - Worm Food - Main Song

Lee Nicklen + Leon O' Driscoll

A quick, first-jam, for fun and for prosperity!

Lee+Leon Jam - 06.06.05

Leon+Lee Section One

Improvisation - Quick Jam - With Leon O'Driscoll and Lee Nicklen.   

Nothing planned.  Just playing live!

Leon+Lee Section Two: HAMMOND FUNK Fun!

Pliotrema was the name given briefly to a small group of musicians from a lively and peaceful city called Brighton in the south coast of England.  They have all played together in various bands before and decided to all meet up one weekend to quickly record a few songs in a small cheap (but cool) little home-built budget studio in Hove called Homesick Studios.

The group of musicians was brought together by sax and flute player Helleanor Webb along with Simon Hill (aka Beta Hector).

This was recorded on the 4th July 2010 in an afternoon along with 5 others tracks.  It has recently been remixed and mastered on the 31st May 2012 by Lee Nicklen

Pliotrema consisted of the following musicians:

Simon Hill (aka Beta Hector) - Double Bass and 4 String Electric Bass
Helleanor Webb - Flute and Saxophone
Graham Sowerby - Drums
Will Rumfitt - Trombone
Neil Bogart - Conga and Percussion
Lee Nicklen - Piano


Pliotrema - Afro Blue

Composed for Nitrome games

2010

by Lee Nicklen

web: www.kayotix.com

Lee Nicklen - Super Feed Me Trailer Soundtrack

My first South American [Brazilian] client needing music for their game project.

Lee Nicklen - Space Balls Beta 1

Melody - Lee Nicklen

NITROME FEEDME TRAILER SONG 2
COMPOSED 25th February 2010
COMPOSED BY LEE NICKLEN


NITROME SUPER FEED ME TRAILER SONG 2

Lee Nicklen - Keyboards

Live playing.  Live Remixing.  Post mastering.

Avishai-Cohen - Emotions REMIX Lee Nicklen-17.03.13

COMPOSER/ARRANGER: Lee Nicklen

Music for the people.

HQ-Music 24th March 2013

Thanks to Carol Kaye for your bass lines.  

Here's one of mine - just for a fun computer game puzzle:


HQ MusicSoundtracks - 28.03.13-mastered

Just mucking around.  Everything played note-by-note -- pretty much!
RECORDED WITH: Cubase VST

www.kayotix.com

Lee Nicklen - Jumble - RadioEdit

Live recording from my garden pond - 14th April 2013
Recorded with a Zoom H2 recorder.  Waves L3 ; filters to correct noise.



Pond Life - A Live Audio Recording by Lee Nicklen -14th April 2013 @ 2am

Aeolian-Temp


Lee John Nicklen is a self-taught / 'naturally ear-trained' musician. Nicklen's love for music was prominent from an early age of 6 with his fascination with a myriad of music styles and musicians. He was forever raiding his parents old vinyl records from the 60's and 70's that included greats such as Earl Grant, Andy Williams, Russ Conway, ELO, Toto and then his addiction for collecting 2nd hand great movie classics - legends including composers Geoff Love, John Williams, Bernard Herrmann etc. He then later showed interest in great Russian composers such as Sergei Prokofiev, Eduard Nikolaevich Artemyev and contemporary/pop artists Nik Kershaw, Vince Clarke etc.


Technology has always played an important part in Lee's life. His first setup included a Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer in conjunction with a Micon MIDI interface - this was his first sequencer. As music technology progressed, Nicklen promptly began using the Atari computer running Cubase - which allowed him greater creativity. As samplers and synthesizers became ever more affordable and now 1990, Lee finally made his first major investment in purchasing a Roland W-30 sampling workstation.


Nicklen's music and sound design career started in 1995 when he was fortunate to land a job working for Brighton based multimedia company - EMG (Epic Multimedia Group PLC) producing sound and music for early formats such as Philips CD-i and CD-ROM.


A year and a half later (1997), he was approached by management duo - Modern Wood and was asked to audition for act Imogen Heap as session keyboard player - at the same time as being offered a job at Virgin Interactive Entertainment (VIE). His decision was set in the games industry and so therefore moved into the world of computer game sound design and music composition.


Starting afresh, and now working with the internal development team, Lee took privilege in the setup of VIE's audio department - thus furthering his 7 year career as lead musician and sound engineer/designer. Over this 7 year span, Lee had managed to produce sound work and music for a myriad of game titles such as Screamer Rally, Super Bikes, Dino Crisis, Heist, Viva Football, European Soccer League, Falcone : Into the Maelstrom.


After leaving VIE in Autumn, 2002 - he decided to start his own venture: Kayotix - offering a plethora of affordable multimedia services, including license free music, sound design, web design for computer games, film/TV and the internet.


To date, Lee still continues to run his small business Kayotix, whilst in his spare time peruses live performance. Lee can often be seen debuting with various bands as a session keyboard player. Nicklen's love for all music talent worldwide can be observed by his exhaustive record collection, those musicians of which play a major influence in his own work.


Airto Moreira, Marcos Valle, Deepak Ram, Prokofiev, Bernard Herrmann, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Romano Mussolini, Avishai Cohen, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Del Shannon, Lyle Mays, Toto, Sarah Mclachlan, Moloko, Røyksopp, Manu Chau, Enya, Steps Ahead, Bruce Hornsby, Pat Metheney, Chicane, Amon Tobin, A-ha, Erasure, Nik Kershaw, Aimee Mann, Crowded House, Edie Brickell, The Sundays, Fila Brazilia, Mandalay, Mauro Picotto, Norah Jones, Vis-A-Vis, The Uhuru Dance Band, The Sweet Talks, City Boys Band, Christy Azuma, Oscar Sulley, Billy Taylor, Fela Kuti, Ebo Taylor... pretty much all music.



Lee Nicklen

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