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Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz leenicklen 145 views Documentary celebrating the founding of Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in 1959. Scott, a rising young saxophone player, opened a club where he and his friends could play the musi...
Poor America - P a n o r a m a [B B C] - Broadcast Date: 13th February 2012 leenicklen 146,389 views POOR AMERICA With one and a half million (1.5 million) American children now homeless, reporter Hilary Andersson meets the school pupils who go hungry in the richest cou...
Nancy Elizabeth - Echo In Telephone (Live on BBC Radio 5 - 08.02.12) leenicklen 49 views Nancy Elizabeth - Echo In Telephone Performs one of her new songs for the first time live on radio. Inspired by her amazing work, I just had to bootleg/recorded this perf...
The Greg Foat Group Live @ The Boiler Room leenicklen 66 views A welcome change to the regular Boiler Room affair, The Greg Foat Group came and totally blew us away. Real instruments, real talented musicians and front to back swaying v...
Avishai Cohen - LIVE @ Cully Jazz (Suisse/Switzerland) - (Full Length Concert) - 2011 leenicklen 569 views 26th March 2011 Avishai Cohen - Double bass, vocals Shai Maestro - Keyboards Amir Bresler - Percussion Cully Jazz Festival - Suisse
Susan Cain: The Power Of Introverts (via 'Keen On...' on TechCrunch TV) leenicklen 673 views Susan Cain's book has already, ironically due to the nature of the book, gone viral. It's already hit 17 foreign markets in the world - even after only its first week's re...
Avishai Cohen - Quintet and Friends, Salle Pleyel, Paris [2010.06.29] - ARTE Live WebRip leenicklen 559 views The bassist and composer Avishai Cohen presents visionary jazz beyond genre boundaries. Having been with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock on tour, he is now leader of a quint...
Rise of the introverts - CBS News Video leenicklen 692 views Rise of the introverts January 26, 2012 7:26 AM Most of the time, the louder and more outgoing you are, the more attention you are going to get. Writer Susan Cain talks a...
Avishai Cohen - Live at TSFJazz Studio [French Jazz Radio] 2010 - ARTE Live leenicklen 1,010 views Avishai Cohen - Live at TSFJazz Studio [French Jazz Radio] 2010 - ARTE Live www[dot]tsfjazz[dot]com This is a Celebration to the new TSF radio Station and the first conce...
Third World Love - Song for Sankoum leenicklen 272 views AVISHAI COHEN (trumpet) YONATAN AVISHAI (piano) OMER AVITAL (bass) DANIEL FREEDMAN (drums) Filmed and directed by Reiner Original source: http://e.walla.co.il/?w=%2F202%2...

About Lee Nicklen's Work and Showreels

Here you will find a sample of Lee's work from past to present, including projects for many global clients including Virgin, BBC, MoD, Nitrome etc

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1974 to Present

Lee Nicklen is a self-taught / 'naturally ear-trained' musician. Nicklen's love for music was prominent from an early age of 6 with his fascination with a myriad of music styles and musicians. He was forever raiding his parents old vinyl records from the 60's and 70's that included greats such as Earl Grant, Andy Williams, Russ Conway, ELO, Toto and then his addiction for collecting 2nd hand great movie classics - legends including composers Geoff Love, John Williams, Bernard Herrmann etc. He then later showed interest in great Russian composers such as Sergei Prokofiev and contemporary/pop artists Nik Kershaw, Vince Clarke etc.

Technology has always played an important part in Lee's life. His first setup included a Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer in conjunction with a Micon MIDI interface - this was his first sequencer. As music technology progressed, Nicklen promptly began using the Atari computer running Cubase - which allowed him greater creativity. As samplers and synthesizers became ever more affordable and now 1990, Lee finally made his first major investment in purchasing a Roland W-30 sampling workstation.

Nicklen's music and sound design career started in 1995 when he was fortunate to land a job working for Brighton based multimedia company - EMG (Epic Multimedia Group PLC) producing sound and music for early formats such as Philips CD-i and CD-ROM.

A year and a half later (1997), he was approached by management duo - Modern Wood and was asked to audition for act Imogen Heap as session keyboard player - at the same time as being offered a job at Virgin Interactive Entertainment (VIE). His decision was set in the games industry and so therefore moved into the world of computer game sound design and music composition.

Starting afresh, and now working with the internal development team, Lee took privilege in the setup of VIE's audio department - thus furthering his 7 year career as lead musician and sound engineer/designer. Over this 7 year span, Lee had managed to produce sound work and music for a myriad of game titles such as Screamer Rally, Super Bikes, Dino Crisis, Heist, Viva Football, European Soccer League, Falcone : Into the Maelstrom.

After leaving VIE in Autumn, 2002 - he decided to start his own company Kayotix offering a plethora of affordable multimedia services, including license free music, sound design, web design for computer games, film/TV and the internet.
Lee's latest music can be heard (see bottom of page for music downloads) in Toby Gards' (creator of Tomb Raider) eagerly awaited game Galleon - which is scheduled for release sometime in 2004.

To date, Lee still continues to run his small business Kayotix, whilst in his spare time peruses live performance. Lee can often be seen debuting with various bands as a session keyboard player. Nicklen's love for all music talent worldwide can be observed by his exhaustive record collection, those musicians of which play a major influence in his own work.

Airto Moreira, Marcos Valle, Deepak Ram, Prokofiev, Bernard Herrmann, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Romano Mussolini, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Del Shannon, Lyle Mays, Toto, Sarah Mclachlan, Moloko, Røyksopp, Manu Chau, Enya, Steps Ahead, Bruce Hornsby, Pat Metheney, Chicane, Amon Tobin, A-ha, Erasure, Nik Kershaw, Aimee Mann, Crowded House, Edie Brickell, The Sundays, Fila Brazilia, Mandalay, Mauro Picotto, Norah Jones - to name a mere few.

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Hometown

Shoreham-by-Sea

Country

United Kingdom

Occupation

Professional musician and sound designer

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Many

Schools

Self educated.

Interests

Music and sound. Philosophy and psychology.

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