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Artist
Nick Wheeldon
12+ albums
about
How many times have we had the chance to see an English musician exiled in France blossom? Instead of patiently maturing out of the ground and becoming the songwriter we'd happily invite to tour our shores, he's been on the starting blocks in Paris since 2012, churning out bands and albums at breakneck speed. Along the way, the Sheffield native has made a lot of friends. So you can humbly jump on the bandwagon with his last three solo albums, which have received rave reviews in France. You'll discover the tribe of talented musicians that surrounds him. From 39th and The Nortons, Os Noctambulos and The Necessary Separations to Sex Sux. In 2021, Le garçon got off to a flying start with his first solo LP: ‘Communication Problems’(2021) followed by ‘Gift’(2022) and ‘Waiting For Piano To Fall’(2024) just a few months ago. Today we bring you ‘Make Art’, his 4th solo album. A masterful, imposing work. The project began with Julien Ledru, first heard by Nick at a concert he was organising at La Pointe Lafayette, Paris. A few demos were recorded on cassette, with Julien's guitar and Nick, who, as usual, already had several songs up his sleeve, singing. The whole thing started out in a more radical folk style, strongly guided by Julien's classy fingerpicking. The collaboration began with a track as beautiful as it is leaden, entitled ‘No God No Master’, recorded on an 8-track tape recorder in a bedroom in Montreuil. As the demos piled up, they decided that maybe they could be more am
