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| Nick Coyle New Song "Witness" |
with Contributing Writing/Photographer: Song River
Multi-faceted Nick Coyle takes all of his special talents in music, film, and TV to create unique works of art. His latest project is his song "Witness" for an animation short Caldera.
Song
River: Nick how would you describe what you create and does it touch
experimental or a vivid imagination?
Nick
Coyle: I just like to create all kinds of music. I also do production
type music for TV so I think my cinematic and rock worlds are
colliding (laughed). I like experimenting with new sound
combinations. There are really no rules. Especially on
this newest song "Witness." When writing it I just
kind of let it take me where it wanted to.
Song
River: Was the song "Witness" written for the animation
short Caldera and how did the project come about?
Nick
Coyle: No there's actually no connection to it other than I saw the
short film late one night and just thought it was the perfect vibe
and feeling for the song. The imagery just fit. I wanted those images tell the story of the song.
Song
River: The "Witness" video is very dark in nature and the
song really connects this. The spiritual vocals to the hard beat
you've joined the whole package to disturb the viewer/listener. Tell
the story behind this project.
Nick
Coyle: Well (paused) it's not really a project per se.
It's just a weird tune (laughed). I didn't create it to brainwash
our youth or anything...(laughed)! I created the music first and
just got into that whole dark world. Just vibing on that and
getting in that headspace. Then for the melody and lyrics I
just let the music kind of steer me toward the theme and all of that.
Song
River: Nick like so many true artists your list of
accomplishments is long and broad: former band member in
Lifer, The Drama Club, and Stardog Champion, when this
article was found at the beginning of January 2017 you were also the
current frontman of Death Valley Dreams and you had your
own solo project, Electracoustica.
Add to this list: you compose
music for television and film production company Telepictures for
shows like “Crimewatch Daily” and “Extra,” along with a new
company, Move Music. First can you clear up where you are on in this
list of accomplishments since the beginning of this year?
Nick
Coyle: (Laughed)...yeah I've been in a few bands. I'm also the new
guitarist of Cold. That's actually my main thing as of Like
November of 2016. So add that to the list! I'm
no longer doing the Death Valley Dreams thing. Jonny Nova the
guitarist/songwriter is going to sing and front the band now. I heard some of the new stuff and it's great!
I've
been doing a lot of music for the TV stuff during any down time while
we're finishing the new Cold record.
Electracoustica
is what I call it when I play solo acoustic shows. I play to
electronic tracks with an acoustic. Hence the name. So that one's not really a band. But yes I do a kinds of
stuff. I did a hair loss commercial a few months back but
that's a story for another day (laughed).
Oh
and I play a lot of Madden.
Song
River: How and when did you become involved in creating music
for film and television Nick?
Nick
Coyle: An old friend of mine from high school actually works at
Telepictures. I've been working for him for a few years on different
projects and one thing kind of led to another. I've been
working with them for like a year and half now. I love it.
Song
River: Do you have an overall preference in what you are creating
for? As some prefer animation and other television film and stories?
Nick
Coyle: I don't necessarily have a preference. It's just always
seems to be dark stuff. The Crimewatch stuff in particular
is really creepy pulsating soundscape type stuff. It's all
fun. I just like making music.
Song
River: How did the opportunity come about to be a part of Cold?
Nick
Coyle: I've known Scooter for like 17 years now. We toured with Cold
in Lifer and again in The Drama Club. He hit me up last fall
and asked if I would be apart of the new record and join the band.
We talked about writing something together in the past and this
was really perfect timing. There's such a great vibe within the band. It's really been great!
Song River: Nick what do you see on your horizons for
the near and not so distant future in the realm of music for
tele/film and with your music projects along with the band Cold?
Nick Coyle: Well I see the new Cold record coming out and a lot of touring in the future. We plan on going overseas too. So we're all pretty pumped about that. We have all kinds of really great things we want to do so I look forward to making all of that happen.
As far as the TV/Film stuff, I write stuff like that all of time and would even like to expand on that and get it more film. I would love to do a horror movie. So if there's anyone out there doing a horror movie and needs some crazy creepy ass music hit me up (laughed). And then I'll keep releasing songs of my own. Like I said I just love writing music and I write a lot of it. So instead of it sitting on my hard drive, I put it out for anyone who wants to listen to it.
LISTEN:
Apple Music - http://bit.ly/2vziCPt
Spotify - http://spoti.fi/2hu3yNa
Google Play - http://bit.ly/2wdhWwh
DOWNLOAD:
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iTunes - (Coming Soon)
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