Nigel Braddock

Thanks to everyone who listened in 2024! On Spotify alone, I had 17,000 listeners in 126 countries. Looking forward to sharing some new music with you in 2025...

In 2001, I put on a Philip Glass solo piano show, Pieces of Glass, in Auckland in collaboration with a dancer (Shanti). I wrote this piece during rehearsals, and it was actually one of the first piano pieces I ever wrote. It only took me twenty three years to get round to recording it. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1HvejP6Ow78T8M9KwM7ejT?si=c26de4f9619841a8
or links to other platforms here: https://linktr.ee/nigelbraddock

Waltz for Shanti Nigel Braddock · Waltz for Shanti · Song · 2024

I made a music video for my new piano piece, Heimweh (homesickness), featuring drone footage of some of my favourite spots in Aotearoa. Thanks to the filmmakers from Videvo for the super nice footage.

Nigel Braddock - Heimweh [Official Music Video] Braddock moved from Auckland to Berlin fourteen years ago but he still experiences bouts of homesickness (Heimweh) for his native Aotearoa/New Zealand. This ...

My new piano piece Heimweh (homesickness) out now. The cover is a photo I took from the lookout point at the end of Log Race Rd back when I was living on Piha Rd many moons ago. Listen on Spotty: https://open.spotify.com/track/39y37lEFFHcd78sl3ul84k?si=8dae612b451142d0 or other platforms here: https://linktr.ee/nigelbraddock

My new piano piece, Late Again, out now. Perhaps it's a result of living in Germany for so long but unlike the Nige of yesteryear, these days I do like to be pünktlich. I wrote this one after a particularly stressful experience in Berlin trying to get home in time to teach a new English class. My F2F meeting beforehand went over time and I jumped on a train without getting a ticket because the train was leaving and there was no time to buy one. Before I could purchase a ticket on my phone, I got busted by a ticket inspector and had to get off the train, making me later still (and 60€ poorer). Then I had to change trains but there was a problem with the line so I had to find the replacement bus, which wasn't well-signposted so I ended up running up and down the street looking for it. Eventually it became clear I wasn't going to make my class so I had to phone in and cancel it. When I finally got home, I wrote and recorded this piece. Listen on Spotify (link below) or go here for other platforms: https://linktr.ee/nigelbraddock

Late Again Nigel Braddock · Late Again · Song · 2024

My third EP of solo piano music, Once More with Feeling, is out today. The title refers to something I used to say, half jokingly, to musicians, when I needed another take in the studio. Listen here on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0T7PMFgKGr3AZ6xbO4Xq1a?si=he9clEnlRyG1hD6PjNsIJQ or here for other platforms: https://linktr.ee/nigelbraddock Let me know what you think...

My new piano piece, Westmere Blues, out now. This is one of the first piano pieces I wrote when I was living in Westmere, Auckland in the early 2000s. I've had fun banging this one out in various bars around NZ and Berlin over the years and it's different every time but I quite like this version. Listen on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/2yHLt0I90lEPM03HFjDtsI?si=b9aac9f9cf0f413d or other platforms here: https://tr.ee/kRIhRLmoFm

My second EP of atmospheric solo piano pieces is out today. I think the title track, Lost for Words, is probably my favourite piece I've written yet. Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/2MTh7qEbLrhpCXY9rIE2ua?si=oqyAkXMOQiOxiGQS0QSLmg or your preferred platform here: https://tr.ee/FZUFl_PAmk. Let me know what you think.

My second EP of solo piano pieces, Lost for Words, is coming out this Friday. It would be really great if you could pre-save it on Spotify, Apple Music etc. Here's the link:

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