Nagle, Paul

Artist: Paul Nagle + Matt Howard
P: 2021
LTD 300
A unique cooperation from Matt Howard with Paul Nagle. An Enhanced CD with the music from Paul and a great comic from Matt!!
Music inspired by Matt's the Spiecies Gap. Recorded in blissfull isolation in the Soft Room, Preston UK
Masterd by Dean Honer at the Bowling Green.

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2023
 

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2023
Some musical reflections on my formative years.

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2012 / 2023
This album began with a single track, Contamination, that I made for a Conrad Schnitzler tribute album that never happened. I enjoyed making it so much that I thought I might do more and gradually this happened. I'd dearly like to think that Conrad might have enjoyed it - he was a true pioneer of sonic exploration and a major influence for me.
Darkness is very 'out of the box' and uses a lot of old analogue gear and celebrates the noise, hiss and hum that comes with it. It's dirty and it's lo-fi - the cast including the Elektron Octatrack and analogues such as the Vermona Perfourmer mk2. And of course the star of the album is my EMS Synthi AKS.

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2022
The inspiration came from a committment to work on shorter pieces yet to retain some of the looseness (chaos?) inherent in the non-linear approach I've been exploring for some time. I got a real boost from the ultra-cool artwork by (Headshock other half) Tim Rafferty, although I've taken certain liberties with it here, twisting, cutting and generally brutalising to fit my nebulous concepts.
There's an image for every track. Actually, I had a lot more tracks and images than I've used, but I tried to keep the best for flow and narrative. It could have been much longer but weaker. The album's title was originally Ambrosia Imagined, then Tim came up with 'Incarnate' as an improvement. It stayed the main theme for a while, then I realised Ambrosia didn't really capture the mood so well compared to Approximation. It could almost have been called 'Appropriation Index' given the current state of AI.

Most of the tracks are performed on just two synths - Tim's Jupiter 6 and my Udo Super 6. Each have different strengths but they play beautifully together, I think. One track is entirely done on my lovely green Korg MS20, layered and looped - see if you can spot which. In places there is a Moog DFAM tapping away and even a tiny bit of my Casio piano is slipped in. Everything was captured into a 1010music BlackBox then arranged live. In terms of FX, the Strymon BigSky and NightSky are given rigorous workouts and Roland's RC-505 (old and new) were invaluable companions too. Sequencing courtesy of the Octatrack (and P3 for the MS20 track). I think that's pretty much the whole story.

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2011 / 2023
Paul Nagle live at Awakenings
Saturday 19th March 2011

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2016 / 2023
The majority of this was recorded live at the Awakenings gig on March 12th 2016. I'm hugely grateful to Phil Booth for recording it and also for the photos. Without him this wouldn't exist. Existing is the topic of my recent novel, incidentally. The novel is called Liminal Entity, not incidentally, and is approximately as clear as this opening paragraph.
Interestingly (at least to me), the addition of the final element to my live sound - ambient mush - is down to another Awakenings stalwart, Jez Creek. The mush is created by a delay Jez likes (the DD20), plus my RC-505 looper. Here it's fed with the Blofeld and also some prepared Minimoog noises, all given the 'broken timestretch' treatment.
 

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2024
 

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2017 / 2023
 

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2025