Back in 2010 I found Nick Castell's music on bandcamp and was stunned by his variety of styles and his playing skills, because he seemed so very young. But after an interview I made with him, it was clear how he approached music. As an ethnomusic …
A new album by the young, prolific composer and musican Nick Castell under his moniker Hiss Hog Porkestra. Skull seems to be a concept album about death and dying. The music is, as on his previous recordings, sometimes plain and quiet piano compositi …
Genre: Acoustic Guitar, Folk
Label: Soylibre
Nick Castell released a brand new album these days. Again a bouquet of beautiful guitar miniatures. Technically perfect fingerstyle guitar and as far as I can say, this combine many different styles, l …
Genre: Folk, Piano Muzack,
Label: self
Nick Castell shared a new ep with us and it follows the path of the predecessor Peter Schlemihl. Means impressionistic piano music and like on his debut, ancient sounding folk from another world.
I suppose …
Genre: Folk, Acoustic
Label: self
So here is the next x-mas related music post. Nick Castell perform two traditional festive tunes, Gaudete! and Conventry Carol. Hope you enjoy these two gifts
Download Gaudete! for free at Bandcamp
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After discovering Nick Castell's music last week I wanted to know more about him and his music. So I did this short interview with Nick. And he was so generous to give you, the readers of this blog, his Hiss Hog Porkestra albums for free or bette …
Genre: Folk, Traditional, Psych
If you like Least Carpet, Steven R. Smith and similar
This is incredible. It's again Nick Castell from London, this time with a more basic, down to earth music. I would describe it as a kind of traditional droning …
Genre: Acoustic, Instrumental
Label: Self
If you like Robbie Basho, Steffen Junghans, John Fahey and similar
This is clearly influenced by guitar musicans like mentioned above. On this 5 track EP he presents beautiful played guitar miniatures a …
