Lion

sethjnichols@icloud.com

I'm an artist who creatively expresses himself through the medium of music. My acoustically complex guitar playing intertwines with my vocal melodies creating a flow. Lyrically I paint with poetry. Some of my favorite lyrical colors are love, death, beauty & metaphysics. 

In high school I was accepted into a select choir.  Amazing life forming experiences ensued. With the choir I toured Europe for several weeks, singing in cathedrals and other beautiful ancient spaces. We also sang in Carnegie Hall in 2001. That's right I've already toured Europe as a musician and sang in Carnegie Hall. Now onto my next big achievement - SoundCloud!

More background on how I got here: I took piano lessons as a kid; In high school I started playing guitar, playing bass guitar in church groups and writing music. I've been writing music, singing in the car and playing guitar ever since. 

I could go on forever, so here's the rest. For a number of reasons, over the past several years I've been terrified to sing in front of people or play my recorded tracks for others. Then my wife and I parted ways, and the following week my dog died very unexpectedly. Since then I've been going through an intense emotional journey. Part of that journey is letting my fears fade into the background and allowing myself to hear the reality I want to experience, which is already playing softly within myself. And so here we meet.
Keep tuned for more amazing music.
 


Chicago, IL
Some rough demos/sketches.

All images by Kaleigh Moynihan.

These are my half-baked babies. A handful of things I've written and recorded on garage band over the past several years in my apartment with an acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, and midi auxillary instrumentation and drums. I hope for these tracks to be a sort of a springboard, and to get some stuff out there so that perhaps somebody with whom it strikes a chord might want to make some music together.

Lion

Matthew Haschmann