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Nicholas Breeze Wood

About Me


Nicholas Breeze Wood is a musician, artist, writer, shamanic practitioner and Tibetan Buddhist (Nyingmapa).
As a musician, Nicholas is inspired by music that seems to come somehow - in someway - from 'another world', often with a slight feel of trance.
He has a great interest in early medieval music, especially the music made between the 11th and 13th centuries, such as the troubadours from the South of France and the Cantigas de Santa Maria from medieval Spain. He tries to combine some of the feel for this sound world into his music, using medieval instruments and sometimes medieval, as well as Arabic, Balkan and North African melodies and musical forms.
He is a self confessed 'stringophile' - collecting plucked stringed instruments of the world and has an extensive collection of them. He also has modern copies of many medieval musical instruments.
He records in his own studio in a small valley in Pembrokeshire in West Wales, where he lives, and rarely performs, although in the past he has been an occasional member of the medieval group Misericordia, was a member of the Freedonia State Orchestra, and has played informally with members of the medieval group Sinfonye on several occasions.
He is the publisher and editor of Sacred Hoop Magazine, a leading international magazine about shamanism published since 1993, and a well known maker of ceremonial craftwork such as shamanic frame drums, beaded feather fans and other ritual shamanic objects.
He runs an on-line gallery of original antique shamanic and Tibetan Buddhist ritual objects called 3Worlds, which is also home to the world's leading podcast on the subject of shamanism. He is the author of 'Voices from the Earth' and 'The Book of the Shaman'.
In his spare time he tries to remember to eat and sometimes even sleep - but mostly he creates (art, a mess, a nuisance, a noise, an eyesore and many other things....)

ALB UMS

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 22/07/2007
Band Website: www.wotie.co.uk
Band Members:
Nicholas Breeze Wood :
: Acoustic, Electric and Bass Guitars • : : Guitarra Latina (Medieval 4 String Guitar) : : : : • : Oud : • Saz : • Setar : : : : • Mandola : • Mandolin : • Bouzouki : • Gimbri : • Charango : • Sinfonye (Medieval Hurdy Gurdy) : • Medieval Harps : • Medieval Psaltery : • : : Medieval Great Pipes : • Medieval Small Pipes : • Rebecs (3 Stringed Medieval Fiddle) and Kemanchie (Turkish Fiddle) : : : : • Frame Drums and Long Drums : • Keyboards : : • : Accordion : : • : Piano : • Vox : :
Influences: : Musical Styles
: Medieval Troubadour Music & the Cantigas de Santa Maria : • North African Music : • Various World Music : • Traditional British Folk : • Rock Music :


Bands and Artists
Sinfonye : • The Dufay Collective : • Eduardo Paniagua : • Malandanca : • Troubadours Art Ensemble - Gérard Zuchetto : • Tinariwen : • Martin Best Medieval Ensemble : • Paulina Ceremuzynska : • Ensemble Lucidarium : • Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) : • Ali Farka Touré : • Alla Francesca : • Ani Difranco : • Dave Matthews Band : • Ekova : • John Mellencamp : • Kristi Stassinopoulou : • Neil Young : • Nic Jones : • Patti Smith : • Patty Griffin : • Planxty : • Porcupine Tree : • Robert Plant : • Steve Earle : • The Stone Coyotes : • Tartit : • Tom Petty : • Vigilantes Of Love : • Yes.
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Record Label: Wotie Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Recording - the problems of just being you

Since I was a kid, I have been drawn to all sorts of music - including traditional folk music from the UK and the medieval music of Europe, so it has long been a dream to do an album of really early f...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:57:00 GMT