Jazz Articles about Nick Storring

About Nick Storring

Album Review

Nick Storring titles his ninth album with a Portuguese word meaning “lookout," though the music rarely lets you settle into any one view. His connection to Brazil is indirect--two tracks were written before he ever visited--but the album carries the energy, textures, and rhythms of a place half-remembered, half-imagined. Instead of leaning on familiar Brazilian cues or predictable frameworks, Storring builds unusual structures and unexpected sonic pathways, conjuring streets, markets, and open skies through fleeting rhythms and delicate timbres. The ...

Album Review

Nick Storring: My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell

Read "My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 9, 2020

Now here is a strange one. My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell was conceived and composed by Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist Nick Storring as a homage to Roberta Flack. But it contains none of her tunes, not even snatches of them. Instead Storring, a sonic sorcerer who is also a fully paid-up Flack connoisseur, has taken phrases from her lyrics and used them as the titles for six deeply evocative, multi-multi-multi-layered instrumentals, which on occasion summon up emotions which have nothing ...