"Rush" is steelpan driven and underscored by electric guitar, piano, violin, and horns. The song attempts to capture the "visceral intensity and momentum of my mind in motion". I wanted to capture the urgency of what I was feeling. Writing this on the steelpan helped me process the experience and start a conversation around mental health - especially how we don't talk about it enough.

Rush

Runnin' away

"the scale" is a 6-track journey through jazz-house, space, and self.
From calm introspection to dancefloor movement, each track marks a step forward, from type 0.00 to type 1.00.
Made with emotion, curiosity, and a saxophone in every orbit.
This is a soundscape for evolution.

type 0.46

type 1.00

type 0.00

type 0.88

type 0.17

type 0.73

Reverence is a feeling of deep respect, awe, and love that can be expressed in many ways, including in arts, religion, in nature, and everyday life. Reverence can also be a spiritual practice that involves recognizing the sacred in everything.

Reverence

My violin solo on piece Trance Dance, enjoy! 

Keyboard instruments  - Szymon Frankowicz
Drums - Kacper Majewski 
Bass - Szymon Pacholak 
Percussions - Michał Chwaliński

Trance Dance - violin solo on the Chick Corea's piece.

I'm a music producer from France. I started making music out of curiosity, without any big plan, just a desire to explore. I’ve always been drawn to different genres like house, jazz, ambient, and electronic, or even neo-classical, and I enjoy blending them together to create something that feels honest. A lot of my inspiration comes from space, the stars, and the idea of how civilizations evolve. The Kardashev scale especially speaks to me, the journey from where we are now to what we might become. My music tries to reflect that feeling of motion, discovery, and emotion.

From an early age, music has been an influential force in Nikkiesha’s life. From the time they discovered Michael Jackson and wanted to sing and break dance like the King of Pop, to being so consumed that Nikkiesha and their siblings performed talent shows in their living room while their parents were both audience and judges, they knew the importance of music.
Nikkiesha (Nikkie) grew up with music around them! In addition to countless talent shows, their home was literally seconds away from a panyard - Panosonic Connection Steel band Orchestra’s panyard. On many late nights, when they should have been asleep, Nikkie’s parents would find the seven year old perched at their bedroom’s window listening to the orchestra practice for the largest steelpan competition in the world: Panorama.
Nikkie’s older brother played the tenor pan for the orchestra. It was witnessing their brother practice which ignited their mesmerized obsession with the instrument. Nikkie took any opportunity to try and play the song their brother was practicing. They didn't care how much noise they made, or how many times they got into trouble for beating their brother’s tenor pan. Nikkie couldn't resist the pan’s allure.
Their love and passion for the steel-pan never died after the age of seven, as twelve year old Nikkie, determined to be a part of the steel-pan culture, began running away to the panyard, and giving the rehearsal director hell - picking up the orchestra’s panists’ sticks and beating any of the unattended steel-pans.
At the time, they were unaware of the difference between beating and playing the pan or any other percussive instrument. The rehearsal director started them off on the Gurndig - better known as the Double Guitar. The Gurndig is similar to the rhythm guitar in a rock band. He told Nikkie if they can learn and master how to play the Gurndig well, they could then move onto their desired pan: the shiny chrome tenor, the soprano, the lead pan in the orchestra.
Knowing they weren’t going to stop running away to Panosonic's panyard, Nikkie’s dad decided to become the orchestra's manager.
As Nikkie got older, they began listening to R&B, Blues, Jazz, Rap/Hip-Hop and Rock music. To their great enthusiasm to hear and experience different forms of music, after migrating to the US, Nikkie was exposed to sub-genres and even more diverse sounds.
Inspired they began to play different instruments: acoustic guitar, the congas, and the drum-kit. Eventually spending more time behind the drum-kit, Nikkie began playing with various rock and punk groups. Most notable, the woman fronted rock trio Telenovela Star whose single, "Car Song" was the theme music for The N Channel’s Beyond The Break.
After many years of playing behind the drum-kit, Nikkiesha is bringing all that they have learned to create and produce their first album, which is a tribute to their late mother and brother.

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