A bit of a mix of stuff new and old, that I've been listening to and playing out over the last year. You can listen to it here, or it's available to download as an mp3. Hope you like it! If you do, and feel inclined to express it, I'd be both honoured and extremely grateful if you popped over to my Facebook page and hit 'Like'. Any questions about any of it, feel free to ask. I have a few more mixes planned for the year, based on a few styles of music that I have amassed, that need stringing together, so watch this space, and my own album will be appearing before too long.  Many thanks :-)

Cyclicity - Naked Nick, January 2014.

This is a track that some people will have heard elsewhere, others not, but it seemed silly not to have it up here. This is one of the first things that Ott and I did together, beginning what has evolved to become a really exciting and productive creative relationship. This is an old song, with a bit of history to it. The lyrics are a poem by Fernando Pessoa, that I read one day on a 'Poems on the Underground' poster, on the tube! Then the guitar riff fused with the lyric during an intense psychedelic experience I had one day in Nottingham. Then, bringing it to Ott's studio, we both added synths, and arrangement, and he did various bits of clever Ott-style trickery, and mixed it, and voila! This will be on my album, though it is somewhat of an anomaly, as it is a lot more vocal-centred than most of what I am working on. A song is nice, from time-to-time, though :-)

Naked Nick & Ott - Harvestwoman

First single from Ott's Mir album. I'm doing the guitars and vocals on this one. We do this one live with the band (Ott & The All-Seeing I), and it totally rocks! :-D

Ott & Naked Nick - Adrift In Hilbert Space

This is Ott's best known and most played track, and the most successful of our collaborative tracks. The main melody which runs through the track, which a lot of people think is a synth, is in fact me singing, put through various processing methods by Ott, who wrote the rest of the track, and produced and mixed it. We also do this one live, in the band, and this represented the biggest challenge we had to face in the Ott & The All-Seeing I project - how to translate this into a live performance. It took some doing, but we managed it, and it really works well, I think. You can check it out live, on our live DVD/Blu-ray, 'Ott & The All-Seeing I - Live at Terminal West':
http://ottsonic.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-terminal-west

Ott & Naked Nick - The Queen Of All Everything

Outerloperz - Inner Cry

Naked Nick and Ott - A Nice Little Place

A mix I've just made for the new year, entitled 'Spiralism'. It features a selection of music by various artists, that I hope can contribute something to a positive vibe as we move forwards into 2012. I've had a really uplifting, and also reflective first week of the year, so planning and making this mix has been a perfect thing to do, and the mood is very much an expression of how this time has been feeling to me. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I have enjoyed making it. For any information about any of the music featured, please don't hesitate to contact me. Cheers, and Happy New Year! X Nick.


Naked Nick Jan 2012 Spiralism

10 - On Holiday By Mistake

09 - Kali

08 - In The Future

07 - Ove

06 - Sublimina

05 - Lucidity

04 - Bhakti Ninja

03 - Butterfly

02 - Samhain

01 - Lunar Sunrise

Accidentally arrived here from a parallel universe.. decided to stay. Well, ok, I couldn't figure out how to get back, so I was stuck here. Same difference, different mentality... on holiday by mistake.

Nick Holden

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