Nagle, Paul

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2024
 

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2024
 

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2018 / 2024
My favourite tracks from many Friday afternoon studio sessions. I had thought I was done releasing 'albums' but it turns out that my 'sorta-retirement' has given me a new lease of life, as well as a stable studio and lots of enthusiasm for playing and enjoying myself.

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2025

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2025
This Friday jam has been joined together (without absolute finesse) into a positive vibes kinda thing - an inconsequential but harmless example of the kind of thing I do on most days.
This recording features some P3 sequences and Electribe Sampler tracks as well as main Cirklon-based studio. These days I don't usually sync it all but today I did and the keys happened to work together.

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2024
 

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2019 / 2023
I decided I wasn't quite ready to become compost just yet so I put together a smaller studio with fewer items in it, no computer either. My tiny setup is based around an Elektron Octatrack which serves as the sequencer for an Analog Four and Digitone. For something to play, I bought Korg's Minilogue xd and loaded the MI Plaits oscillators into it.
What fun! Suddenly I was turning out a track each day again - like the old days, like the 1980s! These are a small selection of the results.
 

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2020 / 2025

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 2024
 

Artist: Paul Nagle
P: 1999
On ‘Lore’ Paul Nagle has set out to present the whole body of knowledge and experience he has gained during his EM career.
The result is a sensational album which continues, and if anything increases, the momentum he seems to have found after the ‘Elemental’ series.
4 tracks are presented, all neatly packaged around the 16 minute mark, and as with Paul’s Far From Stars project there are guest musicians aplenty - largely the FFS collective underlined by the opener being ‘Chill Factor’ which featured on ‘Proxima Centauri’. Here the track has been fine tuned to perfection, developing carefully to usher in a seductive rhythm which builds seemingly endless expectation until the awe inspiring piano melody hits home. Delightful synth interplay and reversed effects lead into a sharp vox which mutates from freehand into sequence before violin joins the fray.
‘Anachronist’ opens with mellotron flute and effects before a completely sensational sequence hits home at the 4 minute mark. It tracks some delicate guitar work before the bass registers start to be progressively introduced. Layer upon layer is added to produce a mouth watering wall of sequencer backing which moves around with the main melody in delightful fashion. The track ebbs and flows, suggesting closure then flying back at you with awesome power. Japanese style detail then bridges into a more robust rhythm which overlays the sequence layers which make a dramatic return.
The mid point reached, and already this album has achieved "essential" status. Yet the remaining tracks, if anything, surpass the form of the first two.
‘Lore’ is based on the most sublime and infectious melody which is picked out on synth voices which bring to mind TD’s ‘Poland’ in one breath, Neuronium’s ‘Chromium Echoes’ in the next. Words are superfluous when confronted with such a heartfelt theme. The mid section is a rhythmic delight, and the symphonic ending a peach.
‘Cascade’ replaces melodic splendour with sequencing from the very highest echelons.