eMusic

Start Your Trial

Nick Forté

Nick Forté

Rate it!

(0 ratings)

  • Years Active: 2000s

Biography

Brooklyn's Nick Forte, a noise pop musician in the best sense of the word, is a master of everything from avant garde guitar to ambient textures to musique concrete to disorienting sound collages. Born in 1971, Forte began experimenting with a guitar in the early 90s, later adding computer processing into his musical evolution. As half of the ambient punk duo, Christmas Decorations, Forte crafts lulling melodies with dark undercurrents bubbling beneath the surface. He's inspired by composers such as Gert-Jans Prins as well as German genre-breakers like Can and Neu which, on Christmas Decorations' brilliant debut, Model 91, results in beautiful, succinct pieces where anti-folk meets Brian Eno. Forte's first solo record, Pasted Lakes, was released on Schematic in 2003. The title describes the music aptly -- with this album Forte constructs epic and natural vistas out of chunks of synthetic sound, creating an audio pastiche that is both grand and detailed, emotive and confounding. He assembled the music out of the scraps and remains of his first foray into computer music, essentially remixing his own work until it was indistinguishable from the source sounds. Forte claims to have been inspired structurally by Wire and the Minutemen, and has used these influences to make a computer album that applies the pacing and attitude of old punk records, but would fit perfectly alongside Mego recording artists.
— Charles Spano , All Music Guide

Related Artists Ancestors, Peers and Acolytes

Similar Artists:

Dino Felipe, Fennesz Sakamoto, Kiyo, Merzbow Vs Nordvargr

“ The indie iTunes — Hardcore music fans are migrating to eMusic, the iTunes Music Store's cheaper, cooler cousin.”


Rolling Stone
Start Your Trial

Recently Viewed

Back
Forward

© 1998-2009 eMusic.com Inc. eMusic and the eMusic logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks in the USA or other countries. All rights reserved.

All Music Guide © 1992 - 2009 All Media Guide, LLC
Portions of content provided by All Music Guide, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC

Facebook®, YouTube, Flickr™ and Wikipedia® are registered trademarks of their respective owners, Facebook Inc., Google, Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Neither Facebook Inc., Google, Inc., Yahoo! Inc. nor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. are partners or sponsors of eMusic. eMusic uses the Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and Wikipedia API but is not endorsed or certified by Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and Wikipedia. eMusic does not pre-screen, monitor, endorse nor assume any liability for websites, contents, products, services or claims made by Facebook, YouTube, Flickr™ and Wikipedia®.

Legal or copyright question regarding Facebook, YouTube, Flickr or Wikipedia content on eMusic? Please email us.