Nathan plays the guitar, piano, autoharp, vocal cord, harmonium, keyboard, bass, piano horn, makeshift beat and other annoying things.
He has lovely guests sometimes when he's lucky.
Influences
nico, the turning of summer into fall, björk, lonely lakes, pj harvey, cat power, first snowfalls, marianne faithfull, old organs, cracking rowboats in late august, kate bush...
Nathan was a child that grew up in the prairies of Canada near the basin of a belt of mountains and parklands. He was not musical, only when performing impromptu to Spice Girls cassettes did he show any interest in performance at all. Being forced to join an organized sport or take up a musical instrument at thirteen, he chose the obvious better choice and started taking guitar lessons from his mother's longtime ex-boyfriend. This lasted a year and started him onto songwriting (which was garbage as you can believe).
On his sixteenth Christmas his mother made the monumental move and bought him a cheap Casio keyboard and it was on this keyboard (and later a Cecilian apartment piano) that he taught himself to play the piano. It was also a tool in shaping his then bare songs into fuller, more realized versions of themselves.
Yet he was still without a name!
And like the parting of clouds it came to him on a summer day at a rummage sale, coming upon a working 1920's typewriter costing him about one dollar. Upon further inspection he saw that the typewriter had belonged to a gal named VIVIAN DAVIES which was scribbled in white chalk on the reverse side of the machine.
Hello Vivian, Thanks for listening to our stuff. We enjoyed your dark melodies and breathy vocals. Peter Rhubarb, Beekeeper Ramirez and The Dirty Android. X
ah worry not :) it'll come out in a podcast in a couple of days... either you can download the podcast, or i'll be downloading it anyway, so i can send it to you if you want? i'm ok thank you.. how are you midear? x
and im honored that you compared shoes to sing for the lonely, kelly can do no wrong, she is the wisest person i've ever come across!
and ive realised that one of my aims in life is to meet jonathan ross, i think he's so sexy and funny, and i wanna be on alan carr's chat show!, its amazing!, and i wanna meet jools holland too haha
Hey Nathan! Hope all is well! I'm finishing up an album...should be soon! I will let you know!! Hope your having a wonderful holiday season as well! Sara
hey love, yea karen is amazing, i honestly think she doesn't come from this planet, she is just pure amazement, tonight she was on top form!, there were laser beams and everything! i wanted to cryy hah
i will upload SFL as we speak and message it you :)
i'd LOOVEE to collaborate with you, i actually had an idea of you singing on the song me and henry wrote together, your deep tone would fit immensely and intensely in it, i'll send a rough demo i did to you as well!, jus so you get the feel/structure
im currently working on the beats/drums for it, then when im done with that me and henry are gonna work on the rest
yay your coming back!! for how long for this time??
and DEFINATLY to recording together, and i dont mind doing a shoot of you either.... and hopefully i will be gigging a bit more by then, so you can come along.. hope you are well...how is work going?? x H
well ive already listened to my studio song, really pleased with it, i am allowed only to listen to it though which is stoopid coz its been two months already since it was mastered, but i should get it soon though
see you in a few months????, are you coming back to london then??? :D, that will be so awesome, we can get drunk around westminster abbey and the big ben! lol xxxx
ah thankyou so much! ... i agree about i being one of her best songs, it really is so beautiful, and means alot to me. i quite like how it isnt on the inth wave though, staying secret under ivy. then again, morning fog doesnt seem to fit the end,.... i dont know. . i am good ta, and i fel things are on the up. i have seen alot of vic recently, writig a song together and doing a shoot tomorrow with her. recorded with my dalring rachel and not much else...yourself? please please do come back to london..!!! how long till then?? x
Greetings. I just wanted to thank you for your continued support and invite you to have a first listen on myspace to the tracks off the new EP "Monster & Minstrel" due out later this month. Bright stars to you! Ahmond
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The award winning album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon.co.uk and many more.
