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Nicholas Barron

2 NEW CD'S ON ITUNES AND YOUTUBE!

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I have 2 new CD's! They both came out last Thursday Sept. 25. We are going to slowly unravel videos from both on a weekly basis. Look for "Honey Lemon tea" this Weds. Oct.1! The first is called NICHOLAS BARRON:THE SWIMMER YEARS and features my favorite songs from the 2 records I put out with my band SWIMMER in the late 90's and early 2000's. The other record is a brand new one called ,"LIVE IN TRANSIENT SOUND", which was recorded LIVE with my band, THE NICHOLAS BARRON BAND, in April of this year and features the breathtaking playing of one of the best Rythym sections on planet earth, my singing-playing and writing, and the brilliant Transient Sound studio itself, which is owned by my mates, drummer Steve Gillis and keyboardist Vijay Tellis Nayak. There are 10 songs altogether on this record and they are a true representation of what me and my band do on a nightly basis in Chicago. We only recorded 1 to 3 takes for each song, which is a testament to the relationship we have, an almost telepathic unity. It must be noted that Candyrat records, who I am so happily signed to, is owned by one of the most beautiful human beings I have ever met, Rob Poland. He is truly the first person to come along and want nothing more than to support my talent and vision and represent me exactly for who and what I am. That is a rare thing in the dysfunctional world of the Music business. All the Candyrat artist's agree on this point. Candyrat records is all about the LIVE experience. There are videos for every song on LIVE IN TRANSIENT SOUND. Rob and I also did a video for "HONEY LEMON TEA" from NICHOLAS BARRON: THE SWIMMER YEARS that is me lip-synching and painting spontaneously while one of my best friends, Chicago Legandary Muralist, Jeff Zimmerman, paints my floating head and other images from the song(This one comes out On OCtober 1 on youtube.com). I wrote this song about my father, who many of you know, is a painter. I have this vision of him at his easel with his morning cup of honey lemon tea, painting abstract expressionist paintings in his early 20's, when he was Roy Lichtenstein's assistant at Rutger's University before Lichtenstein became one of the largest figures in modern art. This video will come out in the next few weeks as well as a video for "AIN'T NO GUARANTEE", another SWIMMER gem. You can purchase all my CD's on itunes under NICHOLAS BARRON, NICHOLAS BARRON BAND and THE NICHOLAS BARRON BAND. You can also buy the 2 new ones and my first Candyrat release "AS I AM" at CANDYRAT.COM Thanks for your support and here's hoping you love my new music as much as I love the process of writing and playing them!
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Member Since: 10/17/2005
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Influences: My first influence was seeing my father in his studio Painting and welding and expressing what was inside of himself in colour and form. Then, soon after, my mother told me about Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Coney Island of the mind", and that kind of freedom in writing gave me a sense that I could write without editing. My mother also had a small but powerful record collection that included the Blueprint for everything I am today; Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell's "Blue", Todd Rundgren's "Wizard", Sly and the Family Stone's "Family Stand", Bob Dylan's "freewheelin'", Leonard Cohen's "songs from a room", James Cotton "Live in Chicago", The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's", Stevie Wonder's "Fulfillingness' first finale", Cream's "Disraeli gears", and Miles Davis "Kind of Blue". When I discovered AL Green, I found my voice. The pointedness and laser beam quality of his intention. I also Found Sam Cooke and his purity of voice and power and then on a quieter plane, Nick Drake. My influences stretched out beyond my artform to that of Poetry and Painting and even more so into language and self discovery, which is when I found my canvas in which to express my feelings. I also always had a very deep affinity and innate understanding of The Blues. When I was 15, my mother bought me a BB KING record and I got something that I couldn't put into words and I liked it. I now mix the Pointed lyrics with the pointed voice and music.
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2 new Nicholas Barron CD’s!!!

My new CD "LIVE IN TRANSIENT SOUND" dropped today as well as NICHOLAS BARRON: THE SWIMMER YEARS, which is a "best of" CD from my band Swimmer.They are both on Candyrat records (Candyrat.com). The new ...
Posted by Nicholas Barron on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:53:00 PST

LIVE IN TRANSIENT SOUND CD RELEASE PARTY

On Thursday October 16,2008, The Nicholas Barron Band, featuring drummer Steve Gillis, Keyboardist Vijay Tellis Nayak, Bassist Shawn Sommer, and Nicholas on vocals and Acoustic and Electric Guitars, ...
Posted by Nicholas Barron on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:26:00 PST