HATCH 21 A

Hapi

Forest Light

Huminal--featuring Eleanor Roosevelt

Hatch Time

Sonic Shadows

Paramitas

Ascension

Emerald Forrest 3.5

Sima

World Service

Junes

Sentient

Wamada

Dust

Chakra

Oudy

Birdolesque

Phil Nicholas composes, mixes and produces music for events, TV/Film productions, publicity campaigns, and, for the dance floor.  On stage Phil performs live as keyboard-player, programmer and DJ, incorporating his own keyboard compositions and dance beats with original world music acts. 
Phil can be contacted at philinicholas@gmail.com

Phil's Background:  Phil Nicholas has gained substantial recognition as a musician over the past 25 years.  Offering a range of musical skills and expertise he .   His success has been built on ground breaking and innovative application of music technology coupled with an inspired musical dexterity and creativity.   
Phil composed and played music from a very early age with a keyboard instrument he made from an electronics kit.  He started performing in bands in his teen years, touring Europe as keyboard player with “Metropolis” when he was 19.   From there Phil developed his expertise in cutting edge synthetic music technology and Fairlight programming, experimenting with dance and world music.

Consequently Phil was taken on by mega-producer Mutt Lange.  Over the next ten years (1984-94) he worked as programmer, and keyboard player in the production of music for bands including Def Leppard, Bryan Adams and Billy Ocean.   Alongside this Phil was independently commissioned for original TV and film production music.  Over the past twenty years he composed 11 library albums for Bruton Music, specialising in ambient/electronic tracks which continue to be popular for  TV and film productions around the world. 

After 14 years with record label Zomba, Phil formed his own dance band, Mombasa, which was signed to MCA.  Their number 1 song “Cry Freedom” has become a club dance classic.  As independent producer Phil also produced tracks for a number of other artists including Toyah Wilcox and Sly & Lovechild

More recently Phil has been involved in various projects with producers of world music including Ivan Duran of Stone tree Records.  Over the past few years he and Ivan have been collaborating to introduce keyboards and contemporary dance beats to Belizian Garifuna music.  Phil is currently working with kora player and vocalist, Ravi, mixing his new album which is due for release later this year 

As a DJ, Phil has developed his own distinctive sound incorporating House music beats and world music samples with his own live drums and keyboards. By producing a rich and funky dance groove for clubs and private parties he aims to bring world music to a wider audience and on to the dance floor.

Phil Nicholas

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