Nick Trepka - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a composer, songwriter, performer and sound engineer living in London as of August 2007, having parted ways with lovely Edinburgh. I was born in Linlithgow, raised in Bradford, and I have blood from Poland and Yorkshire. I'm quite tall.At present I'm doing some engineering work at home and at Fortress Studios , and promoting my current personal project entitled Govinder The Holy Ukulele , which is an album of songs I wrote and recorded over two months in India last year with a ukulele and a good companion. I also play guitar with the multitudinous and frankly amazing force that is Los Grecos .Past projects include doing multichannel sound design and installation for Katharine Fry's series of domestic performance art shows Home Suite (featured in Time Out), fronting NT and the People Who Use Them , which I hope to resurrect soon under a more sensible name, playing lead guitar with harmonica veteran and songsmith The Bluesfather and collaborating with a band of merry artists known as Vague, mainly doing performance / intervention / site-specific stuff. Very good fun.I have made recordings for the following, among others. Of course not all of their current recordings are my work, but I'd like to plug them anyway because there's some folk down there who I really believe in.Los Grecos - Demo, 2008 Slowly Slowly Fast - Govinder The Holy Ukulele, 2008 Arse 2 Mouth - Your Sweet Scent EP, 2007 The Babylon Arabic Band - Samra, 2005 The Bluesfather (E/T/C band) - This Is The Modern Blues, 2007 The Censors - Demo, 2006 Anna Jarosz - Under My Sky, 2007 The Moulettes - Demo, 2008 Miyagi - Dragonfly EP, 2005 NT and the People Who Use Them - Banana Argument EP, 2007 Nick Trepka - Bear, 2008 Opalsky - Tiny Tales, 2008 Lindsay West - Cramond Island, 2006Don't be a stranger.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/29/2006
Band Website: Coming soon
Band Members: An electric guitar, a steel string acoustic guitar, a classical guitar, a bass guitar, a balalaika, a few synthesisers, an array of sound modifying devices, my overflowing toybox, rooms, public spaces, a Tascam reel to reel tape machine, microphones and transducers of various designs, a Commodore Amiga 1200, two Apple Macs and my entire body
Influences: Air, Aphex Twin, A2M, Devendra Banhart, The Beatles, Beck, Bonny Prince Billy, David Bowie, Jeff Buckley, John Cage, Bob Dylan, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Cardiacs, Johnny Cash, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Nick Drake, William Douglas, Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix, Kraftwerk, Thelonious Monk, Nine Inch Nails, The Platters, Portishead, Queen, QOTSA, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Brian Wilson, The White Stripes, The Who, Frank Zappa... That kind of thing.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

India 9: Kashmir to Delhi

Hello all,This last installment of the India journal is regrettably very late. My excuses for this are excellent and you can read them nearer the bottom of this page. For the sake of completeness, her...
Posted by Nick Trepka on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:19:00 PST

India 8: Srinagar continued

Hello all, Our stay in ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Srinagar continued to be nothing but idyllic and the town was quiet the whole time we were t...
Posted by Nick Trepka on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:46:00 PST

India 7: Going out on a high

Hello friends, ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> The journey to Leh, and the journey to where we are now (wait for it, wait for it) are worth a full sessi...
Posted by Nick Trepka on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:10:00 PST

India 6: Pearl of the Himalayas

Hello,We've been exploring the Kullu valley for a week and a bit now. It's been a relief to settle in one area and relax for a short while after the gruelling schedule we set ourselves earlier in our ...
Posted by Nick Trepka on Tue, 29 May 2007 12:29:00 PST

India 5: Rishikesh to Vashist

Hello you lot, Shortly after I wrote the last mass email from Delhi, I emerged from the internet cafe to witness the first hailstorm to hit Delhi in living memory. Balls of ice the size of grapes, gol...
Posted by Nick Trepka on Sun, 20 May 2007 08:06:00 PST

India 4: Trekking in Sikkim

Yowzer, It was only when I called my parents to tell them about the trek we were about to do that i realised that I was still unclear as to how we were going to complete a nine day trek in just six da...
Posted by Nick Trepka on Fri, 11 May 2007 07:16:00 PST

India 3: Gangtok

(Sent 2/5/07) Alright,I'm writing from Gangtok (alt 1600m, pop 35,000), the capital of Sikkim; a tiny little state in North West India which hovers in a little gooseneck of land between Assam and the ...
Posted by Nick Trepka on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:16:00 PST

India 2: Varanasi and Darjeeling

(Sent 29/4/07) Hello all,A great deal has happened since Delhi, it's hard to know where to start. Yes, we took a 12 hour sleeper train to Varanasi, Hinduism's holiest, draped along the ...
Posted by Nick Trepka on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:10:00 PST

India 1: Greetings from Delhi

(Sent 22/4/07) Hello all, Welcome to the first edition of my travel journals to home. So here I am in Delhi, safe and sound. This is me and Joe's third day here, traversing the bustling bazaars of thi...
Posted by Nick Trepka on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:03:00 PST

Farewell Auld Reekie

Friends,Yesterday, the time came for me to pull my roots from Edinburgh's rich and tangy earth. They had been happily furrowing there for almost six years, mingling among an amazing forest of friends ...
Posted by Nick Trepka on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:08:00 PST