Name: Driftless by Nelsonic
Duration: 4 min 48 s
Description: Credits: Geoff Lowe (vocal samples), Drew Krag (electric guitar), Wisconsin Cows (mooing), Matt Nelson (keyboards, acoustic drums, bass, vocal samples, programming)

Inspired by good times with my daughter in Chicago, combined with 80s Sesame Street Joe Raposo vibes.

Credits: Matt Nelson (keyboards, programming)

Little Park

To you I can’t confide
I’ve lost my way into the world that you decide
It’s you that tried to hide 
And now I’m carrying the weight of all your lies

I tried to be your man
But your legs for me can’t stand
And my arms just can’t reach your hand
I tried to be your man
But your legs for me can’t stand
And my arms just can’t reach your hand

To you I can’t confide
I’ve lost my way into the world that you decide
It’s you that tried to hide 
And now I’m carrying the weight of all your lies

legs

4am restlessness after the social scene fades away

Credits: Matt Nelson (keys, programming)

After Hours

This is a reworking of my tune, "Infatuation," sampled from a jazz trio recording. Credits: Graham Czach (upright bass), Makaya McCraven (acoustic drums), Matthew Santos (handclaps), Matt Nischan (vocal samples), Mrs. Williams (vocal samples), Matt Nelson (acoustic piano, rhodes, clav, electric bass, electronic drums)

Limerence

This track started in the legendary Columbia College music student apartment in Chicago's Wicker Park 20 years ago. This is one of several recordings that now represent for me the disorientation of unrecognized neurodivergence and a glimpse of what it's like inside my brain underneath the mask.

Credits: Graham Czach (pots, pans, ripping paper), Annie Clapper (flute), Matt Nischan (vocal samples), St. Peter Catholic School - Class of 1997 (unenthusiastic pledge of allegiance), Matt Nelson (acoustic piano, plucked piano strings, Wurlitzer, windchimes, shot glasses, demo vocals, acoustic guitar, pipe organ, synths, programming)

Bottle on the Roof

This began with an odd ukulele line. Love, marriage, divorce. 

Credits: Matt Nischan (acoustic guitar), Matt Nelson (ukulele, synths, field samples, programming)

Lahaina Lament

It's a vibe.

Credits: Matt Nelson (piano, bass, programming)

Neighborhood

Late night drives and rumination.

Credits: Matt Nelson (keyboards, bass, programming)

Lonely in the Dark

Credits: Geoff Lowe (vocal samples), Drew Krag (electric guitar), Wisconsin Cows (mooing), Matt Nelson (keyboards, acoustic drums, bass, vocal samples, programming)

Driftless

Inspired by a particularly dark dream about the death of a loved-one many years ago.

Credits: Julie Hamlet (vocal samples), Matt Nelson (keyboards, bass, samples, vocals, programming)

Piano by Her Grave

Chicago transplant in Bentonville, Arkansas. Lifelong keyboardist, composer, and arranger. Spent lots of years on and off the road making music. 

Nelsonic is my musical alter ego. This is all the wacky (mostly) instrumental electronic music I've been working on for the past nearly 20 years. Thanks for listening!

Driftless

Nelsonic

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