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The Cloud Hymn

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About Me

These are some songs I wrote, many of them very late at night.

They will be out on an album which has been recorded and will be available sometime in the near future.

Thank you for visiting.

-John

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/20/2007
Band Website: virb.com/thecloudhymn
Band Members: On these recordings:

John Nielsen - songs, guitar, vocals
Tani Alyssa Eckdahl - vocals
Paul Brandt - piano
Influences: Jesus, music that I like
Sounds Like: Iron & Wine, Bon Iver, Jose Gonzalez, Sufjan Stevens, Damien Rice, Nick Drake, Pedro the Lion, things of that nature
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New name

I decided (at the suggestion of a few folks) that it would be best to give this musical project a name. The name is (as you can a probably see) The Cloud Hymn. After going through too many bad ideas t...
Posted by The Cloud Hymn on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:04:00 PST

Test mix tracks posted

Eric has done a preliminary mixed of the record and I have posted four tracks. There will be a few adjustments made and then the album will be mastered. I hope you like how the songs are sounding.-Joh...
Posted by The Cloud Hymn on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:13:00 PST

The album has been tracked

The weekend is over and the album has been tracked. Tani and I drove up to Eau Claire this weekend to record the record. We recorded at Eric Rykal's home studio known as The Distillery. It was grand. ...
Posted by The Cloud Hymn on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:16:00 PST

good things

latelybon iver - for emma, forever agosigur ros - takk..., ( )weatherbox - american artdeyarmond edison - self-titled, silent signsradiohead - in rainbows, hail to the thiefsufjan stevens - seven swan...
Posted by The Cloud Hymn on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:54:00 PST

Album plans, other recent happenings

Thanks everyone who visits this page and I apologize for being a bit out of touch lately. There is not much to report on the recording front. We are going to record the record sometime ...
Posted by The Cloud Hymn on Wed, 14 May 2008 09:18:00 PST

Recording an album sometime soon

I will be recording a full-length album sometime soon. Eric Rykal has kindly offered to record the album. Eric has made lots of great records with lots of great people (Cranes & Crows, Meridene, F...
Posted by The Cloud Hymn on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:39:00 PST

Peer Validated review and new song (To Myself)

Ian Jacoby (of Laarks fame) and his amigos at Peer Validated have been kind enough to review some of my tunes. These guys run a great music blog with enough indie street cred to destroy all your mains...
Posted by The Cloud Hymn on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:28:00 PST

Shows and such

There are some musical things coming up which should prove to be grand.Tuesday March 4 - John Nielsen - Starbucks on Clairemont - 7pm - FreeI am playing at Starbucks. It will be fun. Tani is joining m...
Posted by The Cloud Hymn on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:05:00 PST

Uploadage of songage

There are three songs that have been added in the past week or two, "Wide," "To the Postmodern Man," and most recently, "Blood and Wood." I hope you check them out and like them and perhaps download t...
Posted by The Cloud Hymn on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:18:00 PST

New song and rerecorded song (To the Postmodern Man)

There is a new song up again. It is one I finished writing about about 30 minutes ago and it is is called "To the Postmodern Man." It is about everything not being relative, postmodernism, morality, G...
Posted by The Cloud Hymn on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:22:00 PST