about
Nick Hudson has been making music under his own name for a number of years. After a nomadic upbringing, he has settled in the south of England and formed his ensemble The Academy of Sun, to realize his explorative, dynamic compositions. His work has enjoyed accolades from Julian Cope Current 93’s David Tibet, Meredith Monk, and performance artist Franko B, amongst others. Classical piano tuition commenced when Nick was aged six, and he has since added guitar, vocals, percussion and production/arrangement duties to his arsenal of tools.
His new record 'My Antique Son' addresses Nick’s uncommon fetishes for Victorian opiates, visionary dead poets, and ghosts-as-memories via progressive song-writing that at once invokes Jacques Brel, Pink Floyd, Kayo Dot and the compositional drone-doom of Asva and Sunn O))). in a record that defies categorisation as much as it compels repeated listens. A visionary, psychedelic British pop record in the lineage of Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds of Love’ and Talk Talk’s ‘Spirit of Eden’, Nick’s record has been already highly acclaimed by Current 93’s David Tibet, who has contributed a foreword to the liner notes.
His band, The Academy of Sun, have taken ‘My Antique Son’ and Nick’s recent composition ‘Dead Souls’ and become one of the tightest and most dynamic live outfits currently performing in the UK, displaying virtuosoic flair across a large range of instruments and genres, and twisting between extreme states of emotional terrain with compelling ease.
Nick also composes for film; his most recent score, for the recently completed ‘Godland’ by director Michael Joseph Salerno which will be released on Kiddepunk Records in the not-too-distant future..
Flattering Testimonials
'Ambitious, curious and beautiful' - Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu)
"Very haunting, lateral, evocative, sidereal. I love it." David Tibet/Current 93
'A beautiful voice' - Meredith Monk
Julian Cope review of ‘TERRitORies of disSENT’
lyrics
one day I’ll build us an empire/to my lap the enlightened will flood/the bathhouse will foster the senate/dissent will dismember our blood/embroider a cunt to my apex/I implore thee oh scalpel of Rome/take a pleat to my samphire medusa/oh charioteer oh seducer/when my eyes are covered/when my hands are tied/deus sol invictus/husband will never mean housebound/settled will never be staid/empire will never be deathtrap/rosebloom will breathe as a blade/what’s that Hierocles/want me on my front/what’s that Hierocles/bring the empire to his knees/gott des unbesiegten sohnne/deus sol invictus
credits
from
My Antique Son,
track released March 28, 2011
Nick Hudson - piano, electric guitar, harmonium, vocals, the organ of St. Mary's Church, Brighton, percussion, foley, field recording
Duncan Harrison – guitar, bass, vocals
Elena Baltzis - vocals
Alex Taylor - violin
John Chescoe – flute on ‘Scale’
Daniel Mackenzie - piano, production, treatments
Michael Christiansen – alto sax
Wolf Deraze – vocals
Barnaby Atkins – drums on ‘London’
Erika Blaxland-de-Lange – vocals on ‘Hierocles’
Composed, arranged and produced by Nick Hudson, with invaluable contributions on 7,12 13, 14 from Daniel Mackenzie. 2 written by William Blake, Nick Hudson, Marc Hulson and Wolf Deraze.
Mastered by Nick Hudson and Daniel Mackenzie.
To the Gnostic Saints at whose Bosom I Claw in Dire Days.
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