Nicholas Wells: Blog

Last Monday was the shoot for my first music video! It’s set in a gigantic empty theater, and features “Meant To Be”, the opening song from my upcoming album. The day of filming turned out even better than I had hoped for, and I’m REALLY excited to post the finished video for everyone. The video won’t be finished until the recording of the song is mastered though, but in the meantime, we also shot a ton of making-of footage! The making-of video will certainly be up soon.
 
We arrived at the location about 9am. I had gotten about 2 hours of sleep the night before, because I had STILL been making preparations for the day at 4 in the morning…haha. The band arrived around 10, as we were still beginning to set up. It actually took quite a lot of time to really get everything set up, and we didn’t actually get to start filming until around noon.
 
Everything went as smooth as possible. We got absolutely every shot we possibly needed, and also [...]

This past December 27th, I was in the studio again with a couple of fantastic musicians: Dave Eggar (cello) and Rachel Golub (violin). I was really nervous about the session for weeks prior, spending countless hours reviewing my arrangements and making them just perfect. All of that stressing fell away from me during the first run through of the first song ("To Get Lost", which you'll soon get to hear!) Dave's and Rachel's playing was phenomenal, and the strings sound beautiful with all of the other instruments in the song. It was just a pleasure, spending the rest of the day laying down string tracks over 4 other songs. I absolutely can't wait to share these songs with everyone.

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