I love to frame things and I’m crazy about cropping. Here are some of my recently harvested crops.
Who? The second lyric video from Woodland Echoes we uploaded to YouTube today. I wrote the lyrics when I didn't know the answer to the question and the music when I did - it all happened through a process of doing and becoming. Ask and you shall receive... maybe not right away and sometimes it takes years. My fiancée and I used to live in a little cottage in the country near a pub called The Crooked Billet. Every Friday and Saturday night during the summer we’d hear gypsy jazz drifting over the fields. This is tipping my hat to that sound. I worked on it with my old friend and jazz fanatic, Phil Taylor, and he really pushed me as a musician and helped produce some of the best work on Woodland Echoes. I love his BVs here. We would usually spend most of the day with tea and cakes and talking about anything but music before we start work. This is how I create. Most of the recording time is setting up the atmosphere for the gushing to happen. #NickHeyward #WoodlandEchoes #NaturePop #LyricVideo #Who
Today's Woodland Echoes' 3rd anniversary and to celebrate we've re-opened the webshop at NickHeyward.com and uploaded two new lyric videos to YouTube. Here's a snippet of the first - Beautiful Morning. For me, this song is the gentle unfolding of the day and waking up in nature. #NickHeyward #WoodlandEchoes #NaturePop #LyricVideo #BeautifulMorning
Made it over the driveway. Negotiated the sprinkler system and fought off a wren, a lizard and a strimmer to get here. This is Elysian, also known as The Ten Wild Flowers. I’m going to stay here tonight. Anyway, thought I’d share this with you as I guess most of you enjoy observing adventure, I know I do 🐜💨
Do you like my mask? Actually, lovely turmeric latte! God, it feels good to be out the house. Cheers! ☕️
Mow your shed light. Tag a bunch of opening obstacles. Tape what happens. A rumble of earthiness. Years of being involved. Yes is a good idea. No is a big difference. Togetherness. Olaf Himalayas and the morning marinade. Tides of open hearted people. Power update. Atoned tree for you and me. Oily leaves and the fragrant caribou. Making up a new river of circumstances beyond our control. Whatever the pump said was right. A bright and happy feeling beneath the ridiculous size of your hope. In other words, three cushions on a chair in the lounge 🪑
In my home studio recording drums for my new album with two mics - a Shure Beta 52A in the bass drum and a Neumann TLM 107 overhead 🐋
Bless her. Grandma is ready for yoga. Ear infections, kidney troubles and arthritis won’t stop this gal!
Satisfying week in the studio. No idea what I’m doing but it feels good 🍏 #homerecordingstudio #newalbum
Satisfying day in the garden. No idea what I’m doing but it feels good 🍊
Have a wonderful week. Keep that halter neck and loincloth taut and those shoulders nice and loose. Cheers ☕️
A solitary bee hotel through the bougainvillea. It would be sillier not to stay. Breakfast right on your doorstep 🐝 #pollination
“Embrace the new beginnings” #gulffritillary #animalspeak
I once saw a coyote turn around and acknowledge my presence before calmly entering this clump of trees. I always check to see if he’s/she’s there when I cycle by, just in case. “Do what is best - even if it is difficult” #coyote #tedandrewsanimalspeak #pocketguide
Thank you! The impersonation account has gone 👍🏽 Grandma is still alive and licking, though. She’s flat out on the patio thinking of midnight, falling in love and watching the rain fall. Clever thing.
Underneath view of grandma sliding into place at yoga this morning 🥌💨
Happy Father’s Day! 🙌🏽
This account is impersonating me and sending out private messages. Please report, so it will be taken down. Many thanks, Nick 👍🏽
Back in the garden for the weekend 🌺
As the album fills in so does the garden. Filling good! #homerecordingstudio
Got a lovely egg shaker with Carlos Santana’s wise words on it today. My choruses are going to get moving and grooving. Hatch baby, hatch! 🖤
We replaced the fill valve on our toilet yesterday. The information’s all out there now isn’t it. From drum tuning to plumbing tips. Handy. $8.00 for the part 👍🏽 #allhandstothepump #teamwork
Grandma’s corner. Have a great weekend. Peace ✌🏽 #rescuecat #lifeofriley
Up the funky junction “I never thought it would happen” ☺️ #skippy #homestudio #squeezedinthecorner #selfsufficiency #ratherniffty #squeezelyrics #deepjoy
Got my kit into the car! “I told a girl I can start right away. And she said, "listen, babe, I got something to say. I got no car and it's breaking my heart. But I've found a driver and that's a start.” #recording #songwriting #drums #newrhythms #beatleslyrics #rocknroll
A dragonfly watched us put the third raised flower bed in yesterday. They’ve been around for 300 million years. Well successful!
Great gig. Going Back To My Roots, obviously 👢
Found a local band. Looking forward to the show 🤩
Today Matthew, I’m going to be a yellow hibiscus 🤩
Use the winds of change to power your view of life. Utilise and vitalise. Surprise yourself again and again. Well, that’s what a local spider told me this morning. I thought they’d died but they were just lying LOW like Bowie in Berlin towards the end of the 70’s. I love that about some creatures. They know just how to survive 🙌🏽 #amarsadayhelpsyouworkrestandplay #spidersfrommars #beckenhamplacepark
Raw confidence, charisma and zero arrogance. Excellent beings!
Hello there! I'm sharing works in progress and posting daily on Patreon (a platform for directly supporting artists - link in bio). Right now your patronage will help me finish my new album and in return, I'll be answering your questions and comments, sharing exclusive new songs, performances, chat, and merchandise. Here's a snippet of a preview of Songbirds, a work in progress about COVID-19 shared on Patreon. #patreon #songbirds #workinprogress #newalbum
Thank you very much! 🪁 x
Who? The second lyric video from Woodland Echoes we uploaded to YouTube today. I wrote the lyrics when I didn't know the answer to the question and the music when I did - it all happened through a process of doing and becoming. Ask and you shall receive... maybe not right away and sometimes it takes years. My fiancée and I used to live in a little cottage in the country near a pub called The Crooked Billet. Every Friday and Saturday night during the summer we’d hear gypsy jazz drifting over the fields. This is tipping my hat to that sound. I worked on it with my old friend and jazz fanatic, Phil Taylor, and he really pushed me as a musician and helped produce some of the best work on Woodland Echoes. I love his BVs here. We would usually spend most of the day with tea and cakes and talking about anything but music before we start work. This is how I create. Most of the recording time is setting up the atmosphere for the gushing to happen. #NickHeyward #WoodlandEchoes #NaturePop #LyricVideo #Who
Today's Woodland Echoes' 3rd anniversary and to celebrate we've re-opened the webshop at NickHeyward.com and uploaded two new lyric videos to YouTube. Here's a snippet of the first - Beautiful Morning. For me, this song is the gentle unfolding of the day and waking up in nature. #NickHeyward #WoodlandEchoes #NaturePop #LyricVideo #BeautifulMorning
Made it over the driveway. Negotiated the sprinkler system and fought off a wren, a lizard and a strimmer to get here. This is Elysian, also known as The Ten Wild Flowers. I’m going to stay here tonight. Anyway, thought I’d share this with you as I guess most of you enjoy observing adventure, I know I do 🐜💨
Do you like my mask? Actually, lovely turmeric latte! God, it feels good to be out the house. Cheers! ☕️
Mow your shed light. Tag a bunch of opening obstacles. Tape what happens. A rumble of earthiness. Years of being involved. Yes is a good idea. No is a big difference. Togetherness. Olaf Himalayas and the morning marinade. Tides of open hearted people. Power update. Atoned tree for you and me. Oily leaves and the fragrant caribou. Making up a new river of circumstances beyond our control. Whatever the pump said was right. A bright and happy feeling beneath the ridiculous size of your hope. In other words, three cushions on a chair in the lounge 🪑
In my home studio recording drums for my new album with two mics - a Shure Beta 52A in the bass drum and a Neumann TLM 107 overhead 🐋
Bless her. Grandma is ready for yoga. Ear infections, kidney troubles and arthritis won’t stop this gal!
Satisfying week in the studio. No idea what I’m doing but it feels good 🍏 #homerecordingstudio #newalbum
Satisfying day in the garden. No idea what I’m doing but it feels good 🍊
Have a wonderful week. Keep that halter neck and loincloth taut and those shoulders nice and loose. Cheers ☕️
A solitary bee hotel through the bougainvillea. It would be sillier not to stay. Breakfast right on your doorstep 🐝 #pollination
“Embrace the new beginnings” #gulffritillary #animalspeak
I once saw a coyote turn around and acknowledge my presence before calmly entering this clump of trees. I always check to see if he’s/she’s there when I cycle by, just in case. “Do what is best - even if it is difficult” #coyote #tedandrewsanimalspeak #pocketguide
Thank you! The impersonation account has gone 👍🏽 Grandma is still alive and licking, though. She’s flat out on the patio thinking of midnight, falling in love and watching the rain fall. Clever thing.
Underneath view of grandma sliding into place at yoga this morning 🥌💨
Happy Father’s Day! 🙌🏽
This account is impersonating me and sending out private messages. Please report, so it will be taken down. Many thanks, Nick 👍🏽
Back in the garden for the weekend 🌺
As the album fills in so does the garden. Filling good! #homerecordingstudio
Got a lovely egg shaker with Carlos Santana’s wise words on it today. My choruses are going to get moving and grooving. Hatch baby, hatch! 🖤
We replaced the fill valve on our toilet yesterday. The information’s all out there now isn’t it. From drum tuning to plumbing tips. Handy. $8.00 for the part 👍🏽 #allhandstothepump #teamwork
Grandma’s corner. Have a great weekend. Peace ✌🏽 #rescuecat #lifeofriley
Up the funky junction “I never thought it would happen” ☺️ #skippy #homestudio #squeezedinthecorner #selfsufficiency #ratherniffty #squeezelyrics #deepjoy
Got my kit into the car! “I told a girl I can start right away. And she said, "listen, babe, I got something to say. I got no car and it's breaking my heart. But I've found a driver and that's a start.” #recording #songwriting #drums #newrhythms #beatleslyrics #rocknroll
A dragonfly watched us put the third raised flower bed in yesterday. They’ve been around for 300 million years. Well successful!
Great gig. Going Back To My Roots, obviously 👢
Found a local band. Looking forward to the show 🤩
Today Matthew, I’m going to be a yellow hibiscus 🤩
Use the winds of change to power your view of life. Utilise and vitalise. Surprise yourself again and again. Well, that’s what a local spider told me this morning. I thought they’d died but they were just lying LOW like Bowie in Berlin towards the end of the 70’s. I love that about some creatures. They know just how to survive 🙌🏽 #amarsadayhelpsyouworkrestandplay #spidersfrommars #beckenhamplacepark
Raw confidence, charisma and zero arrogance. Excellent beings!
Hello there! I'm sharing works in progress and posting daily on Patreon (a platform for directly supporting artists - link in bio). Right now your patronage will help me finish my new album and in return, I'll be answering your questions and comments, sharing exclusive new songs, performances, chat, and merchandise. Here's a snippet of a preview of Songbirds, a work in progress about COVID-19 shared on Patreon. #patreon #songbirds #workinprogress #newalbum
Thank you very much! 🪁 x