Nick Jaina

I’ve done two recording sessions over at the Daytrotter studios in Rock Island, Illinois. The most recent one came out last April and features some live in-studio recordings of some of my songs, including an older unreleased song. Sean at Daytrotter always writes beautiful summaries of the bands on the site, and he wrote some really flattering words for me:

“He’s made a spectacular jaw-dropper in the just released ‘A Bird In The Opera House,’ an album that startles and makes you swoon to it and its easy beauty. Its songs are full of delicate loves and the troubles with them, floating on flimsy clouds and negligent stars/moons and sentences, working themselves into heady folk country as well as undeniably sleek and ruffled pop in the style that George, Paul, Ringo and John used to make way back when.”

Thanks, Sean. Listen to the session over at Daytrotter.

I did a session at the beginning of the year on KDVS radio in Davis, California. I called in from a landline at my parents house in Folsom, California and played a few songs. The thin phone fidelity led an eerie quality to recordings, like I was phoning in from the 1930′s.

I played a couple old songs, a couple new songs, a cover and some other stuff. You can listen to the session here.

OPB Music is debuting a new song from my upcoming album of different female singers. This particular song features Jolie Holland singing a song I wrote and produced called “You Were So Good To Me”. I played Scrabble with Jolie a few weeks ago and she knows ALL the two and three letter words, and she’s perfectly willing to play them all.

I recorded a bunch of covers over the winter for supporters of my upcoming album. People who gave a certain amount got to choose three songs for me to record. I’ve collected the best of those and am offering them to you in one convenient place.

It’s called Sleeping on the Covers, and features songs by Madonna, Kate Bush, and Sting. Yes, Sting.

I did it all in my friend’s studio while he was on vacation. All the songs that seemed like they would be the hardest to do something with ended up being the most touching, including the Sting song which I turned into a waltz and found to be rather sweet.

Daniel, the website guy here. Eleanor is one of my favorite Nick Jaina songs:

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Special treat from me.