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Joell Nicolas
Musician, composer, producer and singer solo project - Verveine / electronic hardware /head of VRVN records / member of CAF? records (DJ)
Professional activities:
- Ableton Live
- Arrangement
- CDJ
- Coaching
- Composition
- DJing
- Homestudio recording
- Keyboard
- Maschine
- Music live
- Piano
- Producing
- Songwriting
- Sounddesign
- Vocals
Hobbies and interests:
- Ableton Live
- Arrangement
- Artwork / visuals
- Blog / Vlog / Podcast
- CDJ
- Club
- Coaching
- Composition
- Cultural organisation / management
- Cultural politics
- Digital Performer
- DIY
- DJing
- Engineering studio sound
- Festival
- Graphic design
- Keyboard
- Maschine
- Mastering
- Mixing
- Musicology
- Music studio
- Music video
- Producing
- Sounddesign
- Vocals
Projects:
VRVN (Verveine)Pronoun:
Joell, Verveine, she/her
VERVEINE is a music project that began with Joell Nicolas (CH) as a composer, songwriter and vocalist. Her classical background (piano) together with a strong taste for the pop, electronic and avant-garde cultures have allowed her to build something we could name « pop of the extremes » with her machines and her voice. After a few years in Berlin and Brussels, she is back in her home country, Switzerland, flirting with new codes, in search of tension and transversality. Her work asserts its own identity and centers around an aesthetic duality, shaped both by a cerebral quest for sensation and a more visceral quest for emotion.
After the releases of «Peaks» (2013, DKLK Records) and «Antony» (2015, Creaked Records), she first sparks the interest of the Swiss cultural actors and then half-opens the doors to European success thanks to her remarked performance at the Transmusicales de Rennes (FR), Le Printemps de Bourges (FR), MaMA Festival (FR), Iceland Airwaves (IS), Eurosonic Nooderslag (NL), Plissken Festival (GR), Zemlika (LV).
VERVEINE wins the Suisa Foundation Awards at the Demotape Clinic Electronic in Zürich in 2017. She released her debut studio album HOTDRAMA in September 2020.