Nickie’s Niches #38: February 2025

Start Artist Song Time Album Year 0:02:26 Tenk Van Dool and Paul Sears King Köln 3:20 Single 2025 0:06:16 Grackle I Can Make This Right 4:47 All That Matters 2024 0:11:30 Sona Jobarteh Saya 3:48 Fasiya 2023 0:16:01 Dorie Jackson The Daylight Gate 5:04 Stupid Says Run 2025 0:21:43 Dirk Mont Campbell Gallow’s Bank 4:34 Long Time Gone 2024 0:26:45 Bleakheart Where I’m Disease 4:37 Silver Pulse 2024 0:31:51 Nicola Lori URBAN VISION 6:26 URBAN VISION 2024 0:38:46 Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions She Moved Through The Fayre 5:59 Cold Blows the Rain 2025 0:45:12 Versa Lake of Luxury 5:28 A Voyage / A Destination, Part 2 2024 0:48:33 Wardruna Jord til Ljos 0:29 Birna 2025 King Köln by Tenk Van Dool / Paul Sears Tenk Van Dool and Paul Sears worked up a different version of my favourite piece of theirs from their “Aperiodic Grok,” release, making it more upbeat, and giving it a royal title. It still falls firmly into my “niche-y” camp, and here it is, for your enjoyment, because why keep it all to myself? I announce the arrival of King Köln. All That Matters – High Resolution (24 bit) by Grackle favorite track I Can Make This Right Steve Katsikis and friends return with another lovely collection of reflective and catchy tunes. The seven-piece band is adept, and the music is lush and dense with orchestration. Instruments are keyboards, bass, drums, violin, cello, saxophone, flute, and guitars. The lyrics really shine, going from the depths of existential crisis, to the lilting joys of love and love of life, and even a cover tune from Jesus Christ, Superstar. Fasiya by Sona Jobarteh favorite track Saya World musician Sona Jobarteh specializes in the 21-stringed West African kora, which in itself is quite an accomplishment, as learning the instrument is normally passed from father to son. She is the first professional female kora player. She has a mellifluous voice, and is accompanied by acoustic guitar, flute, and drums on this outing. It is simply beautiful. Stupid Says Run by Dorie Jackson favorite track The Daylight Gate Dorie Jackson is no stranger to progressive music, having worked as lead and backing vocalist for artists such as Francis Dunnery and Kaprekar’s Constant.