"piano, piano, piano"
Ex Olympic's vagrantly sonic "Rapture" feels at once like the theme for a gritty 70's Film in the vein of John Schlesinger or Hal Ashby. The kind of movie that changes your world view if only for a moment but long enough that it's impact sticks with you your entire life and makes you live life like you will die before you turn 50 years old.
-Robb Donker Curtius
Ex Olympic is the project of Cape Town based producer and multi instrumentalist, Nic van Reenen.
After making electronic music (as Fever Trails) for several years, Nic became re-interested in the tactile expression of music, foregoing sequencing synths and samples, in favour of revisiting his musical roots in instrument-based music and song writing.
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Ex Olympic is the project of Cape Town based producer and multi instrumentalist, Nic van Reenen.
After making electronic music (as Fever Trails) for several years, Nic became re-interested in the tactile expression of music, foregoing sequencing synths and samples, in favour of revisiting his musical roots in instrument-based music and song writing.
Nic's songwriting is often vulnerable and telling of his internal dialogues, which he presents to the listener (with varying ratios of encryption:transparency), in some vague belief that there may be some 'universality' in- and resonance with his interior world and way making sense of things.
There are broadly scattered stylistic echos in his music, ranging from the psychedelic tapestries of Pink Floyd, to the proggy labyrinthian arrangements of Yes, to the pining melodrama of Richard Hawley, to the break-centric, string drenched euphoria of David Axelrod. Comparison is a bit of a silly exercise though, because it's also really none of these things. Maybe you can decide?
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