NSM Presents: Nic Evennett ~ Spiritual Folk 

Words and Music © Nic Evennett & Peter Haring, 2022 

Feat. Jules Bangs - Bass
          Matt Steady - Violin 

Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
Released by No Sheet Music
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477


* Huge love and thank you to the following folk: 
Peter, for letting me use some of your beautiful words. It's an honour to have them lighting up this album. Jules, for all your time and forever fabulous basswork. Matt, for the gloriousness of your solo in GIB. Adam, for all your hard work and patience. And the team at NSM, who saw something (gawd knows what...) in what I do. Thank you, all of you. You are love, love, loved.

For more of Matt, you can find him here: https://mattsteady.com/
Adam Ellis does marvellous things here: https://www.deadlinestudios.co.uk/
Jules Bangs is brilliant and hasn't got a page. It's about time he did really. Oi, Jules, get a page...

No Sheet Music

NSM Presents: Nic Evennett

Words & Music © Nic Evennett 2021
Mastered by Adam Ellis. 


There's a tiny part of me, a drawing pin.
A boat sits on the blue against white skin.
A sailor in green is anchoring
And gulls overhead are circling.

I keep it closed, away from harm,
The cherished place upon my arm.
But inside my chest it hides a charm,
But inside my chest it hides a charm.

This heart of mine, oh...
Discovery.
This heart of mine, oh...
Recovery. 
This heart of mine, oh...
Will always be. 

This heart of mine..
Oh...

Discovery

Words & Music © Jim Sanger and Nic Evennett 2021
Thank you, Jim, for your beautiful work. X

Find Jim here: https://soundcloud.com/jimsanger
If you fancy this track without my scribble on it, find it here: 
https://soundcloud.com/jimsanger/casio-lullaby

---

There's little to be said for staying out of sight,
And little gained in wondering if we'll be alright.
The sky will always compromise to charm the night
With hope of light, hope of light, hope of light.

The meaning of it all is blue and bittersweet,
With all these poems destined to stay in...
But words will always kiss when it's their time to meet.
And then oh, the light, all the light, what a light.

Light ~ Jim Sanger & Nic Evennett

Words & Music © Nic Evennett 2021
https://nicevennett.bandcamp.com/track/matisse
All proceeds to Samaritans. 
~

Sun goes up,
Sun goes down,
So I'm told
And I am curled into some place
Of absency,
Weighty,
Sciamachy,
And every face peers  back at me.

You know my whys.
You'd have me believe
That I'm a Matisse, upon my knees.
So I thank the skies
For the bit and bow
In shapes of lullabies that open home.
I will sing you home...

You look so good inside.
Who am I in the colours
That i am twirling through?
Til I lay my horse-drawn eyes on you, my love,
My ears are broken.
You look so good inside.
Liquefied
To the gold that trickles out of you.
So the sun would give her core for you, my love.
Her core for you, my love.
Her core for you, my love.

Matisse

Words and Music © Nic Evennett 2021
Beat by FL Souto (Master of all beats <3 )



~

The joke's on you, 
Careless little thing. 
Bold unyielding, 
Bouncing round a ring. 

So whose side were you on?
Whose side were you on?
Turns out they all decide. 

Merge with the motion... 
The blow, the cornering, 
Just for the simple things, 
Just for arrival. 
You want to take me on?
So won't you show yourself.
I bleed survival. 

Masked marvelling!
Pointed, china chin...
Just keep the peace, girl, 
Keep the weakness in. 
So who'll guide you along?
Who'll guide you along?
Turns out it always turns out. 

Merge with the motion... 
The blow, the cornering, 
Just for the simple things, 
Just for arrival. 
You want to take me on?
So won't you show yourself.
I bleed survival. 

Merge with the motion...

Merge

Cover of 'Strangers in the Night', arranged and performed by Nic Evennett, 2022. Featuring Jules Bangs on bass. 
Mastered by Adam Ellis, Deadline Studios
Artwork: Nic Evennett

Out now.  All proceeds to The Specialized Project. 
https://nicevennett.bandcamp.com/track/strangers-in-the-night

As featured on The Specialized Project, 'Our Way - The Rat Pack Collection' boxset, released November 2022. 
Find more details here on the boxset and the fantastic work the project do. 

https://specializedproject.com/product/our-way-the-rat-pack-collection-cd/

Strangers In The Night - Nic Evennett feat. Jules Bangs - OUT NOW

Words and Music © Nic Evennett & Peter Haring, 2022 
Feat. Jules Bangs - Bass

Low Sky Hunting:

I wake the night,
I wake the night,
Low sky hunting.
They're wandering
They are wondering
Feeling something.
This delicate hand,
This holy land...
New moon rising.
At once, see-through
And bound to you:
Synchronising.

~~~
         

Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

Low Sky Hunting

Words and Music © Nic Evennett, 2022 

Feat. Jules Bangs - Bass

Flow:

And so it was, change of the season,
Curled under a blanket waiting for sound.
Caught a little landscape – must have your reason...
Unheard, unguarded, where you are bound.
Let water flow (let water flow)
Held it in her hand just to let go.
Dripping poetry, dripping poetry...
Tied up with some turmoil for your arrival.
Fought the little battle all on her own.
Plucked her soul's soul for her own survival,
Handing it over, finding its home.
Still water flows (water flows)
Hold on to her hand, never let go.
Be her poetry, be her poetry.
(Someone watch over them, watch over them...)

~~~
          

Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

Flow (Continuation)

Words and Music © Nic Evennett, 2022 

Are We There Yet?  (For Syd)

I looked high, I looked low,
Black cat in a mean coal cellar.
All the things that I don't know...
You can be my storyteller.
Are we there yet? It's been so long.
Are we there yet? We're looking for a lifeline.
Did you see that shooting star?
All the blinks and all the missed its.
Surely it's our avatar,
You and I, the soaring misfits.
Are we there yet? It's been so long.
Are we there yet? We're looking for a lifetime.
In amongst the landscape blue
Under these cornflower skies, love,
You have me and I have you,
Tomorrows in your eyes.
And all the joys we crystallise.
Let's have a long and happy life. 

~~~
Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

Are We There Yet?

Words and Music © Nic Evennett, 2022 

Feat. Matt Steady - Violin solo
          Jules Bangs - Bass

Glorious in Between:

Somewhere else, somewhere good,
Empty space where our bodies stood.
Neither can nor never could...
Glorious in between.
In the mist, we are unfound.
Memories are not weather-bound.
Lay with me in this sound...
Glorious in between.

~~~

Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

For more of Matt's beautiful work, visit: https://mattsteady.com/

Glorious In Between

Words © Peter Haring, 2022 
Music ©  Nic Evennett, 2022

The sun bleeds in the ocean,
Poppies shroud their love,
While black against the blood-red
Soars the shadow of the dove.
The shadow of the dove, my dear,
The echo of the light.
And silent in its rising,
Sings me through the night. 

~~~

Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

Shadow Of The Dove

Words and Music © Nic Evennett, 2022 
Feat. Jules Bangs on Bass
As heard on "The Ultimatum: Marry or Move on", Netflix.

All That We Are: 

All the words are void for fractured eyes.
You don't have to die to find out why you're living.
Readjust your line -
Fortune's autograph looping through the winter.
Here you go again, thinking that it matters.
Here you go again...
All that we are.
All we could be.
All that we are.
Many fell today for nothingness.
Many rose to find the sky a little wider.
I sent it just in time;
Looking upward now, you hear every vesper. 

~~~

Feat. Jules Bangs - Bass
  
Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

All That We Are

Music © Nic Evennett, 2022
Words © Peter Haring, 2022 

Horizon:

Are we the horizon?
Or will our shadows burn,
As we draw near
And set the sun?
~~~

Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

Horizon

Westward – Words & Music © Nic Evennett 2022

Wind blowing, wind blowing, wind blowing, wild!

Purple sky, gold geese cry,
You and I, all bound together
In a moment true, clouds unglue
We drip through, falling and stretching like
Unruly trees, escapees,
Violent ease, tumbling and laughing
With the rain and glare in our hair
We're no where and listing westward.

Power down in this town
We are bound to fall down the middle
If we don't speak out, turnabout,
Have no doubt that I'll be coming with you.

Finger tips, parted lips,
Losing grip on all our tomorrows.
And the storm keeps blowing.
Where you going?
Should be following right behind...

----

Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

Westward

Words & Music © Nic Evennett 2023
Feat. beats by FL Souto (Master of all beats... <3)

~~~

with bitter wings on broader shoulders,
here lies my sense and curiosity.
here lies their lies told, shaped and bolder,
until i don't recognise the me in me in me in me.

be kind, be kind...

some words
to please June
like we pleased December

(takes courage, too much courage, to hear all sides)

your glorious eyes see more than any others'
your gracious mouth curls around every light.
whose life is this, above, beyond all others?
whose is this body, this oversight?

rewind/be kind

some words to please June
like we pleased December

~~~

Please June

Words, Music, and Image  © Nic Evennett 2014



-----

Should have known,
My cornerstone.
You should have known;
Too little, too late...

All I ever wanted was silence, silence,
All I ever saw was the good of the moon,
All I ever felt was raw. 

Cover's blown,
My cornerstone.
Your cover's blown. 
Evaporate...

With all the world's riddles leaning on you,
When every hand you hold is chaos renewed,
And every out-breath shudders cries of war. 

My cornerstone,
All flowers grown,
My cornerstone.
Too little, too late...

My cornerstone.

I should have known. 

----

Cornerstone

Cover of A-ha's Take On Me (1984, Hunting High and Low) 

Arrangement by Nic Evennett, featuring Jules Bangs on bass. 
Mastered by Adam Ellis, Deadline Studios. 

Available later this year on The Specialized Project's 80s reimagined box set. https://thespecializedproject.bandcamp.com/album/skank-up-the-80s

Skank Up The 80s

Take On Me - Cover by Nic Evennett feat. Jules Bangs

Words & Music © Nic Evennett, 2019, 2025. 

For Helen 

Let me be water,
And feel with flowing arms,
Seeking the corners
Then flowing, flowing.
And evermore I'll float.
There, I will linger.
There, I'll find stillness.

I'll only keep moments
And a calm heart.
No one could hold me down -
Slip through tangled hand.
And I will sing their songs -
The voice of the coral,
The melody of the sands.

Be.
Beautifully dawning.

The words of a dreamer,
The messenger of the sea.

~

The Letter ~ For Helen

Words © Nic Evennett 2017
Music ©  Nic Evennett and UNJAY 2017
Mixed and Mastered by Roel Sleurink
Appeared on Tom Robinson's Mixtape, BBC 6 Music, April 2017. 

https://nicevennett.bandcamp.com/track/somehow

Many thanks to https://soundcloud.com/unjay-rady for the beat. You're a star. :) 

And thank you, Roel, so, so much for doing this. Here's to many more! (I apologise ;) ) 

For OB1

_



I'm still here, lost and bound,
Every year spins me around
And round we go 'til every face
Sets into a frown of time and space.

Somehow we wonder,
Somehow we care
Too much, too soon, too little.
Somehow, somehow...

Fire curled around the words,
rose up into paper birds,
And swirled above the place you laid -
Now just clothes on beds unmade.

Chorus

Evermore and evermore
There'll be silence at my door
And all the smoke reminds me now
We will always float somehow.

Somehow ~ feat. UNJAY

Words and Music © Nic Evennett, 2017 

For Kate. I love you heaps. <3 
---

For all the unheard, my mighty, 
I wish for you every hand,
And when the worst dark curls around you, 
I wish for real love, not reprimand. 

Who are these days filled with voices?
Yet choirs of dreams do not make a sound. 
To build, to be built, and tumbled, 
With only our names in the dust on the ground.

So sweet Wendy, come out of the corner and shine,
And sing like you own every note in the choir divine.

For all the unheard, the mighty, 
I wish for you every hand,
And when the worst dark curls around, 
I wish for you real love.

Heard

Words and Music © Nic Evennett 2017
Image: Markus Sebastiano

When will it end?...


(Fancy the Bond version? Nip over here...
https://soundcloud.com/cinematicdancemusic/holdon007)

---

Never meant to be...
The flash of eyes is haunting,
There's groaning in the sea,
And every wave is daunting.
They never will agree,
It's lovers they are taunting.

You lied and lied...

You said, 'Step down from the ledge, my dear,
Too close to the edge, I fear.'

They're cutting all the roses down,
Darling, hold on tight, darling hold on tight,
And Lyssa dances through the town,
Darling, hold on tight, darling, hold on tight.

You don't stand for me,
And I can stand my ground.
The song I fired was sweet,
And all the notes fell down.
Here, take my hand,
We're lifting with the sound.

We sang and sang....

I said, ' Step down from the ledge, my dear,
Too close to the edge I fear.'

They're cutting all the roses down,
Darling, hold on tight, darling hold on tight,
And Lyssa dances through the town,
Darling, hold on tight, darling, hold on tight.

Hold On

Cover of Black Star from  'The Bends', Radiohead, and nothing to do with me.
Arrangement: Nic Evennett


For the girls. Thank you for inspiring me each day.

Black Star - Radiohead - 2017

The EP 'Bone and Thirst', released 3rd February 2018. Available on Bandcamp. 50% of any proceeds will go to the charity 'Mind'. 
https://nicevennett.bandcamp.com/album/bone-and-thirst

Words, Music, and Image © Nic Evennett, 2017

Bone and Thirst

Cover of the track 'Nostalgia' by David Sylvian.
Instrumentation by Robert
Vocals by Nic Evennett

Nostalgia ~ David Sylvian ~ Cinematic Cover featuring Nic Evennett

Now featuring on the EP 'For the Money', which you will find here:
https://nicevennett.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-money
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/nicevennett

Words and Music © Nic Evennett 2018
Beaty-beats by the wonderful FL Souto
Photography by Richard Davis


Lookie! We got us a wee review:

http://www.themostradicalist.com/article/list-pick-nic-evennett-softly/



---

I'm on the edge of the edge of the world, 
Falling, calling, closing and curled. 
Wading through dreams trying to hide from the drums, 
Wake me, shake me, before the rain comes. 

Softly, sing to me. 
Softly, sing to me. 

Everyone knows that still waters run deep,
Drinking, sinking, the secrets you keep. 
Changers and strangers cut paths through the soul...
Why be complete when complete isn't whole?

Softly, sing to me.
Softly, sing to me.

Softly ~ Feat. FL Souto

Words, Music and Image © Nic Evennett 2019

For Fran - in the shape of a hug I never got to give you, but I am now. 
Sleep easy, beauty. xxx

Available on Bandcamp. All proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Support. 
https://nicevennett.bandcamp.com/track/colour-of-weight-song-for-fran
~

I will sit here a while
We'll watch the world guiltlessly
It's wicked and beautiful
It's distance and sympathy

There are feelings they've never held,
The feelings that glued our bones.
They're hungry for everything
And eaten by nothing known.

The colour of weight - 
There's nothing left in between
But skies keep me straight...
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time. 

There's a hole in the cloud
A trail that is left untold
With the curve of our arms
And the shapes we can never hold.

The colour of weight - 
There's nothing left in between
But skies keep me straight...
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time.

Colour of Weight (Song for Fran)

Words and Music © Nic Evennett 2019
Feat. beat by FL Souto

From the EP 'For the Money', available now at:
https://nicevennett.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-money
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/nicevennett


With a thank you to the little girl playing in my road who shouted, 'The monsters are coming - RUN!' at a perfect time in the song. :)

~

Neither the  time or the space,
Neither the good or the good grace.
Caught in this middle and wildly free,
Known at this distance and too close to see.

Sensational
Sensational

Crystal and crime halted our tongue,
Breathing was mine while they held my lung.
Caught in this middle, falling outside.
We were the pure and still purified.

Sensational.
Sensational. 


(we turned to the shore, tears turned to water...)

Crystal and Crime ~ Feat. FL Souto

Words & Music © Nic Evennett 2020
Featuring beat by FL Souto
And song number 100. Yippity. 

Official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u_m4jUyd1M

~

So where's the fire here? 
The heat is strong.
I'll mop your fever, dear,
Cos they've got you wrong.

Your nose is over there.
You're bleeding doubt.
I'll wash it from your hair,
And your insides out. 


wrong side, right side
dark side, light side
push me, pull me
round and round in bitter circles...

We're here to motivate,
So come along!
No time to hesitate:
Whose side are you on?

Oh, your significance!
Vowels loud and bold.
This is no game of chance - 
Welcome to our fold!

lose me, find me,
bruise me, blind me, 
use me, wind me, 
round and round in little circles...

We're here to motivate,
So come along!
No time to hesitate:
Whose side are you on?
It's time to celebrate
Where you belong!
No time to hesitate:
Whose side are you on?

Whose Side Are You On? Feat. FL Souto

Waiting For The Leaves. 
Out now. See link in bio. 


Featuring:
Richard Brewer - Guitar
Jon Read - Flugelhorn
Matt Steady - Violin/Viola

Mixed and Mastered by Adam Ellis. 

Words and Music © Nic Evennett 2020

---

For Jeff. Thank you for being Jeff.

~

Goodness knows where goodness sleeps,
Bending from the hours it keeps,
All the good that weaved through you
Woke up into something new.
All that nothing is everything...
Wear the farewells on my skin.

Feed me like the morning sun
Bleeding light on everyone.
Line my lips with reasons why,
Remedy and beautify.
Place your heart in this naked sound,
Rest your head where its clothes are found.

Plant your feet on this wavering,
Oh, rest your head where the raindrops sing...

Feed me like the morning sun
Bleeding light on everyone.

Lullabies For Stars

Featured a teeny bit in BBC Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, S3E1
23rd August.

Waiting For The Leaves. 
Out now. See link in bio. 


Featuring:
Richard Brewer - Guitar
Jon Read - Flugelhorn
Matt Steady - Violin/Viola

Mixed and Mastered by Adam Ellis. 

Words and Music © Nic Evennett 2019

---

For Richard Read. Rest sweetly.

~

The whistle of wind at my side,
And the rise of waves and the fall of my pride,
I will lay me down on this salty petticoat
And listen to the secrets of this broken boat.
The weathered masks of glory and time,
And the bells and the calls of the harbour shall be mine.
I will sing my stories from soldiers of the sea,
And this fading little boat will comfort me.

The wind blew our hands clean
And our stories through the gaps between.
The water made us thirsty still
For all the things that could be real.
"But words are free",
You said to me,
Then vanished from sight.

(You float with me, you float with me)

Broken Boat

MP3 out 4th December 2020
All proceeds going to Alzheimer's Society and Alzheimer Scotland.

Words and Music © Nic Evennett 2020
For Miriam, Syd, and Peter, with love. 

Official music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baqqUtd9L9o&t=199s
---

It's cold outside and grey as stone.
The blankets are cruel and barely sewn.
So unravel and hold me tight.
There's too much warmth for cold tonight. 
 
We'll travel the distance and make the waves.
They'd never have saved us anyway.
I thought us here and surely there;
The message is clear that we're no where. 

But bitter's gone
And winter's not far behind. 
There's no single path to find.
You'll be singing the snow from the roses.

I've chained tomorrow to a tree.
This year has run away from me.
But darling we will be alright,
There's too much warmth for cold tonight,
There's too much warmth for cold.

Too Much Warmth For Cold Tonight

Words & Music © Nic Evennett 2021
Beat by FL Souto, mangled by Nic

midnight songs...

---

under this hood of mine,
I walk the night
to find you.
the moon says,
"I promise you, I promise you, 
go this way."
the click, click, clicking of my heels
and my tongue
swallowed by fog. 
there's nothing more.
will I find you?
will I find you?

find you

Independent singer-songwriter from Kent, UK. 
Little video introduction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKMPLBJBK6M

'No Sheet Music' Artist. https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/artists/nic-evennett

"Evennett’s voice is a delicate mystery, warm and lustrous, yet fragile and crystalline – a bewitching blend of Kate Bush and Linda Perhacs, surrounded by dolorous, reverb-drenched piano and woven into broken-hearted balladry." Andee Connors, Pandora 

"Moving, delicate and introspective. As always, Nic Evennett's voice washes over the listener creating an incubated space I didn't want to leave."
Rapt.

Interview: 
https://cocamidemea.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/indieterria-meets-nic-evennett/

---

Part of duo Cellar Door. We're over here:
https://soundcloud.com/cdoor

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