Wake Up Now Nick Mulvey

• 1 Unconditional 03:45
• 2 Transform Your Game (We Remain) 06:17
• 3 Imogen 04:15
• 4 Myela 05:36
• 5 We Are Never Apart 04:34
• 6 Remembering 04:17
• 7 Mountain To Move 03:56
• 8 When The Body Is Gone 06:11
• 9 Lullaby 01:16
• 10 In Your Hands 07:10
• 11 Infinite Trees 04:03
• Total Runtime 51:20

Info for Wake Up Now

Nick Mulveys 2015 veröffentlichtes Album First Mind ist das Debüt eines Künstlers, der sich dem Konventionellen entzieht und dem Erwarteten ausweicht. Eine Platte mit konträren Nuancen, ungewöhnlichen Rhythmen, auf der ein exquisiter und talentierter Gitarrist sein Instrument außergewöhnliche Dinge tun lässt und einzigartige Klangfarben zum Strahlen bringt. Ein schwer zu vergleichendes Album.

Das erste neue Material von Mulvey nach über zwei Jahren, die Single Unconditional, hat einen vielschichtigen groovebasierten Sound, der sich nicht zu weit von First Mind wegbewegt – aber doch weit genug, um neu und aufregend zu sein. Zudem ist die Platte so etwas wie der Zufluchtsort einer Gemeinschaft, die sich aus einer Vielzahl von neuen und talentierten Musikern zusammensetzt – woran auch Brian Eno nicht ganz unschuldig ist, mit dem es einige Vorab-Aufnahmen gab, und der Nick dazu ermunterte, sich kreativ zu öffnen und auszutauschen. Dieses Sich-Öffnen hat sich auch klar in den Lyrics niedergeschlagen, die – einst Metapher an Metapher reihend – jetzt das Grundthema des Albums definieren: Klarheit. Menschlichkeit.

Nick Mulvey, Gesang, Gitarre

Nick Mulvey
is an English musician, singer and songwriter who studied music in Havana, Cuba. He played the Hang as a founder member of 2008 Mercury Prize nominated band Portico Quartet, until 2011 when he left to pursue his career as a singer-songwriter. As a solo artist, Mulvey released his first EP The Trellis in November 2012, and his second Fever to the Form in July 2013. He has toured with Laura Marling, Laura Mvula, and Lianne La Havas and cites, among others, Nick Drake as a key musical influence.

As a founding member of sprawling, Mercury Prize nominated jazz collective, Portico Quartet, Nick played an otherworldly new instrument called The Hang, and their music still resonates today in broader circles outside of any insular jazz clique (Alt-J quoted one of Nick's Portico lyrics on their debut album). Nick though wanted a change, and one where the creative process was perhaps a more singular vision, albeit no less liberal-minded.

Putting himself through a guitar school in Cuba, the only Brit in the room, his technique is exquisite, a blur of picked notes and offbeat, irregular timings. Nick is one of life\'s great thinkers, and coupling his beautifully delivered verse with the intricacies of his playing, you have something wildly at odds with his peers.

Three single releases into this solo career and Nick's music is making impressive, encouraging footprints across the globe. Concluding 2013 on the BBC Sound of 2014 shortlist, those introductory singles, Fever to The Form, Nitrous, and the irresistible Cucurucu are picking up fans in all the right places. Playlisted at Radio 1, Radio 2, 6Music, Absolute Radio, and XFM, and armed with a slew of impressive press quotes, its crucially not just the airwaves and printed press that are taking to Nick but their listeners and readers alike.

The confines of the studio, where an artist can pour over every dropped note or wayward vocal, are rarely the litmus test for a musician's true worth, so it's equally as encouraging that the past twelve months have taken Nick across the UK and Europe and back again, performing to bigger crowds and selling out venues well in advance. Laura Marling invited him out on a full UK tour last Autumn, Ben Howard has become a big vocal supporter following a support slot in Ireland, and Nick's upcoming UK and European tour already includes sold-out shows in cities far beyond his London home. Last Summer he was a regular on the festival stages to busy crowds, and this year already looks likely to repeat and surpass that feat. He dips speculative toes in America this March with his first performances out at SXSW in Texas.

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