Diamonds & Demons is the debut album by the British-Portuguese musician Nessi Gomes, a composer and lyricist of rare invention and beauty. Ensuing tales of darkness and light allow a deeper exploration of the human condition, psyche, collective fears and torments.
Produced by Duncan Bridgeman, (1 Giant Leap)
UK Release: 14 October 2016.

“Hauntingly atmospheric and lushly textured nods to Bjork & Kate Bush”
Paul Lester – The Guardian

“A record that is at once lustrous and shadowy, mysterious and magical, intimate and idiosyncratic. An exercise in shaping beauty out of despair”
Music Week

“Stunning debut from a composer and lyricist of rare invention and beauty”
Folk Radio UK

“The followers of Beth Gibbons, Joanna Newsom and especially the excellent Daughter will find themselves becoming fans of Gomes after hearing her debut album”
Songwriters Magazine

“A slick contemporary singer-songwriter record with a subtle Fado aesthetic and Sam Lee on the title track”
fRoots

“completely engulfing and enthralling. The minutes seems to melt away while listening. Candidly moving debut album”
R2 magazine

• The single These Walls received spins on BBC1, BBC2, 6 music and more.

• Winner of Best of British Unsigned Female for 2016.

• Performed in 18 countries during the last 2 years including Glastonbury
festival, Shambala,Cambridge Folkfest and more.

• Raised over $50k in a crowdfunding campaign.

Diamonds & Demons

My debut album 'Diamonds & Demons' is finally available via iTunes right in here: apple.co/2aDMi25
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These Walls:
Lyrics, Music, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocal : Nessi Gomes
Piano & Keyboards, Drums : Nigel Butler
Bass : Duncan Bridgeman
Produced, Engineered, Arranged: Duncan Bridgeman 
Post production and sound processing: Nigel Butler 
Mixed: Joe Dworniak, Nigel Butler, Duncan Bridgeman 
Mastered: Joe Dworniak

These Walls

Falling Birds

All Related

Into the Earth

Long Way Home

Diamonds & Demons (feat. Sam Lee)

For concerts:
https://www.nessigomesmusic.com/shows
For Voice Workshops:
https://www.nessigomesvoice.com/
Born on the tiny Island of Guernsey to a Portuguese family, British singer- songwriter Nessi Gomes channels influences from both sides of her ethnicity, blending the essence of the traditional, emotional and ‘larger than life’ Fado folk music with British progressive modern inspiration.
Though spending most of her life in the Channel Islands, the turning point in Nessi’s musical expression took place six years ago when she lived in Central America. The years she spent away from her home shook her world and reshaped her writing. She shifted from the more obvious themes of love, loss and broken hearts to ruthlessly exploring her inner geography and the delicate fears, insecurities, beauty and light that she found there.
Her quirky and emotive voice began to reflect a brutally honest portrait of an inner world where shadows and light, sanity and insanity dance magically together; where mysteries are unveiled.
In October 2013, Nessi returned to the west with her deeply personal raw material and with a vision to record her songs onto an album. The task to slow cook the project was given to the Grammy nominee producer and film maker Duncan Bridgeman (1 Giant Leap, Hecho En Mexico).
Since then, over the last one and a half years, inside a rusty little blue boat on London’s Regents Canal, Nessi and Duncan recorded her debut album.
Both of them locked themselves in the boat while giving the songs the time to ripen. Duncan worked with great patience; Slowly opening a creative tunnel into Nessi;s inner world and peeling back layers of doubts and resistance. He took her sweat, tears and raw talent and transformed them into a complete album.
Some acclaimed musicians joined them on the boat during these 18 months and one at the time they coloured the music with immense talent. Amongst them are classical violinist Viktoria Mullova, modern classical cellist Matthew Barley, indie whiz kid Cosmo Sheldrake, folk singer Sam Lee, rising jazz talent Misha Mullov - Abbado, German Guitar maestro Rainer Scheurenbrand, electric guitarist Dave Randel (Faithless) and tech wizard Nigel Butler.
Together, this supergroup forged a tender mosaic, whispering witchy tales of dark and light resulting in a nostalgic, progressive and detailed production - a unique musical project that recalls the vocal witches of the West such as Kate Bush and Bjork, while following Gomes’s Portuguese roots.
Following a successful fundraising campaign (April 2015) in which more than $49,000 was raised, Gomes toured 12 European countries (Mid July - Mid September 2015), sowing the seeds towards the release of her album and growing a devoted fan base.
The album revealing an authentic and heartfelt search for light, depth, hope and truth. It is a quest of art, love and trust. It fulfils Nessi’s wish to deeply touch and shake the audience, to stir and shift something within them, to speak of the uncomfortable so that it may pass, and to expose and sing the human experience to its fullest expression.
Links:
Website: http://www.nessigomesmusic.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nessigomesmusic SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/nessigomes 
CrowdFunding Campaign: http://bit.ly/1NfJhOc
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/nessigomesmusic