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NICK SAYA
is a Producer, Drummer, Programmer, Multi Instrumentalist and Songwriter. Nick's work covers a wide variety of styles including Rock, R+B, Hip Hop, Dance, Pop, Film Score and Sound Design. He is much sought after for both his musical and technical expertise in recording and production . As a drummer he has played with and or recorded with Blood Sweat and Tears, Tom Bones Malone,Lew Soloff, Alan Rubin, Blue Lou Marini, Lenny Pickett, Gloria Gaynor, Gordon Gaines, David Fiuczynski and The Screaming Headless Torsos,John Medeski (Medeski Martin And Wood) and Chris Baron (The Spin Doctors). He has been a member of the Annie Minogue Band from the start of the project and has shared the stage opening for David Lee Roth, Dave Navaro, The Black Eyed Peas, Chris Whitley and others. Nick plays drums, co-writes the material as well as produces Annie's project. Nick has just finishing the latest Annie Minogue Album, "Tripping The Velvet". Nick has worked as a programmer for DJ Jonathan Peters lending his talents to JP's productions (Jon secada, Ayumi Hamazaki and others). He has had many songs he has written placed in movies, TV and commercial jingle spots. He is a member of the scoring team Motion Music Works that specializes in multi media and film scoring. The sample company PowerFx has signed Nick on as a featured producer in their company. PowerFx distributes original drum loops created by Nick.
- What are your favourite pieces of studio hardware?
- my juno 60. My Triton rack.
- Which Digital Audio Workstation application do you use?
- Protools, Digital Performer, Ableton Live, Peak, csound, reason.
pretty much everything
- Who are your musical/production influences or heroes?
- Miles Davis
Led Zeppelin
John Coltrane
Jimi Hendrix
Steve Jordan
Joe Zawinul
Tony Williams
Prince
Wayne Shorter
BT
Omar Hakim
Charlie Drayton
Chris Whitley
Jeff Porcaro
Al Jackson
John Bonham
Elvin Jones
Aerosmith
John JR Robinson
Jeff Buckley
AC/DC
Bjork
Kenny Aronoff
Herbie Hancock
Al Foster
David Bowie
Jeff Beck
Nick Saya's Blog
Professional acoustic rock/pop drum loops
I also have multi tracked 24bit Wav. versions of most of the Grooves.
Go to
http://www.powerfx.com
click on my name on left side of page under producers page
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