A new voice, a one-man-band. Just listen.


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In every new voice we hear an echo of the past. This is the artistâs way: stealing
what you love and loving what you steal. And then â this is what defines him or
her as a true artist - not repeating it, but dragging it into your own world.
Making it sing differently. Your way. Like it has never been sung before
Listening to Nikolaiâs first album, in the opening song we seem to be in
Americana country, but itâs a smoking gun with a twist. The next song is a surf
trip to nowhere land. Listen to âLovermanâ, background vocals coming in when
you least expect it. Haunting. A whisper that sounds familiar, but far from being
family, in fact itâs a threat.
Nikolai is not just a singer songwriter, in my opinion heâs a composer,
with lyrics on the side. A true musician, looking for the listenerâs sweet spot,
seducing and then sometimes stepping aside as if to say: this may not be what
you expected, but this is it, take it or leave it.
And that is what we gladly do. In the French âIl ne pleut pasâ with itâs sad
undertone. In the spooky âHadesâ, and the strange folksy âVoor Die Liefde Nieâ.
His music is potent, yet vulnerable. Sometimes it sounds as if it could
almost fall apart. Listen to the chorus with its faltering echo, the almost pastoral
âAcquoyâ. Eclectic songs for a broken world, thatâs what springs to mind
listening to this album.
And yes, theyâre all here: Dylan, Reed, Waits, somewhere in the wings,
but it couldnât be anyone else but Nikolai, a new voice, a one-man-band.
Just listen.

Benjamin Burg