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Artist: Nick+Gerald
Website: http://www.nickandgerald.com/ or http://www.myspace.com/nickandgerald
Track Name: Clear Air Turbulence
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: Yes/No

Guitars, keyboards, laptops and 3000 miles as a not insignificant inconvenience to actually playing together. Still Nick+Gerald manage to turn out a really polished and well constructed sound.

Nick+Gerald are Nick Gaiger and Gerald Berliner. They originally hail from West London, first meeting at school in Ealing and have remained life-long friends ever since. In 1993 Gerald left London to take up residence in New York where he now lives. Nick remained in London. Not letting a mere 3000 miles get in the way, they forged a transatlantic collaboration to continue their shared passion for making music, only this time from either side of the Atlantic.

you can read the full bio here

The piece I found myself taken with, is one of their earlier works, “Clear Air Turbulence”, it’s has more of the
Steve Hillage, Genesis, King Crimson, Gong, Mike Oldfield, Vangelis, Pink Floyd, Steve Hackett, Mike Oldfield and Robert Fripp influences. As time goes on they become more classic soundtrack and I find that the change in style takes a bit of getting used too. You can checkout some of their vide pieces on their myspace site. Some are more successful than others.

Nick+Gerald’s music is free to download and is for personal playing and sharing only. The tracks are all high-quality 320 kbps MP3s. They sound so wonderfully crisp in the headphones.

If you are recovering from an election party (we had a change of government here in Australia yesterday) you will find this music will be perfect for the recharge.

Recommended.