Crossings

…the understated cool of the Pink-Floyd-meets-Steve-Reich gem that is Nicky Hind's Crossings for guitar and live electronics (I could have listened to a whole disc of Nicky's work)…
– Guitarra Magazine, USA
Seven Visions

…a beautiful taste of experimental electronic music … a psychedelic journey to the center of your mind…
– Skylight, Greece
Hindsight

Hind's compositions use simple, flexible, melodic and rhythmic components
to create an evocative, layered soundscape. Jazz soloists Steve Kettley and Dick Lee…add a distinctive voice
to the music's constantly modulating flow, setting up a complex and fascinating musical dialogue. Hindsight makes excellent musical sense of the relationship between
writing and improvisation, maintaining an integral relationship between the individual voice and the base composition.
– The Wire Magazine, UK

…this remarkably accomplished piece … a treat from beginning to end, but 'A Far Cry', which tells of the yearning for a distant loved one, and the spook-filled 'Dead Of Night' are particular stand outs.
– Zeitgeist, UK
Quest and Slumber

…took me to the Australian wilderness where mysterious winds elicited harmonics from barren rock formations, accompanied by aboriginal rhythms…
– Computer Music Journal, USA

…as you move from one garden to the next, perspectives
change as the sounds overlap and fade. Begin at the garden marked Slumber, and feel a gentle hypnotic
pulsing, like a heartbeat…In Quest the music – throbbing and pulsing, almost choral – becomes more
directional. At the final garden, Confluence, the sound, built around the fountain, is like a
chattering dawn chorus…Intriguing and fascinating.
– The Herald, UK
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