Nicholas Breeze Wood
Voice. Guitars. Mandola. Mandolin. Bouzouki. Accordion. Keyboards. Piano. Six-hole Pipe. Harmonica. Acoustic and Electronic Drums and Percussion.

The second album of rock songs by Nicholas. Released in 2004

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REVIEWS

Emma Restall Orr - The Druids' Voice

This latest album by Nick Wood, editor of the shamanic magazine Sacred Hoop, is a delight. Shine to me is a wonderful raw mixture of Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and David Byrne. It has beautifully rich sentiments, a lilting rhythm and a skilled simplicity that retains space within the full sound of the music. Nick's voice is more powerful in terms of meaning than tunefulness, like Dylan, and the lyrics are often deeply poignant: I found myself often stopping to listen more clearly, to allow the images and emotions to touch me, and at the same time feeling the music move around me, like the spirit of the wind on a hillside.
Check out his website and pick up a copy of Shine; if you like any or all of those three artists above, especially with a heavy Pagan influence added, this is well worthwhile.

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Nikki Brown - Pentangle Magazine

Shine is Nicholas Wood's most recent album release and is the result of three years work. Until I reviewed this CD, I was unaware of his musical work, but did know of his editorship with Sacred Hoop Magazine
The CD has excellent production quality. The liner notes contain lyrics for every song on the album. I was impressed by this album; the lyrics are very thought provoking and every one feels loving put together, with themes drawn from the universal spectrum of human emotions; spirituality, love, death, inspiration, feeling an outsider. The original lyrics and music are cleverly put together and effectively reach a deeper level of pagan consciousness by avoiding the stereotypical and bland "new age witchy-poo" kind of music.
All songs were written and performed entirely by Nicholas with a range of instruments from around the globe. A work of genius!

5 Pentacles.