# UK Avant-Pop Artist NICK HUDSON Gears Up For New Album ‘Kanda Teenage Honey’ 

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/uk-avant-pop-artist-nick-hudson-gears-up-for-new-album-kanda-teenage-honey/
- Published: 2024-03-13T13:00:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **UK avant-pop artist NICK HUDSON gears up for new album ‘Kanda Teenage Honey’**

#### **Previews two new tracks + video for ‘Khevsureti’ **

_“Beautifully written, recorded, produced and arranged… all complimented by vocal
that lives up to the same standard. No cheating, no fronting, just honest crafted
musicality”_  ~ **Billy Gould (Faith No More)**

_“Kanda Teenage Honey is shockingly emotional, thoughtfully orchestrated and wonderfully
curious lyrically. It is a record for true music lovers” _~ **Jamie Stewart (Xiu
Xiu)**

_“There isn’t really anyone making music like Nick Hudson“_ ~ **The Quietus**

_“Nick Hudson is a unique talent. His song writing and performances are breathtaking.
He is long overdue being heard by a wider audience. This solo album is a peak in
an already stellar career”_ ~ **Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai)**

[⌊Nick Hudson⌉⌊Nick Hudson⌉[

_“Scott Walker channeling Coil”_ ~ **MOJO Magazine**

_“Genius”_ – **BBC Radio (BBC Introducing)**

Brighton alternative pop artist **[Nick Hudson](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/)**
presents his new album [**‘Kanda Teenage Honey’**](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/album/kanda-teenage-honey),
an expansive collection of 16 tracks, recorded largely in a huge former Soviet movie
studio in Georgia under the shadow of the Ukraine war. Previewed this week by the
tracks** [‘Ortolan’](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/track/ortolan)** 
and [**‘This Heat’**](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/track/this-heat),
Hudson recently released the singles** **[**‘For My Silence’**](https://youtu.be/qj_xFZBhfTE)
and [**‘Khevsureti’**](https://youtu.be/nz9rzb94dtk), which recently garnered him
coverage in [**Billboard**](https://billboard-com-ge.translate.goog/2024/02/28/nik-hadsoni-saqartvelosi-mcxovrebi-britaneli-musikosis-semoqmedeba-da-xevsuretistvis-mizrvnili-simrera/?_x_tr_sl=ka&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp).

Mixed by and featuring [**Toby Driver**](https://www.instagram.com/tobydriver/) 
of [**Kayo Dot,**](http://kayodot.bandcamp.com/) this album is graced with numerous
talented guests, including **Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite**, **Stuart Dahlquist (
Asva, Burning Witch, Sunn O)))**, **Lizzy Carey (Bat For Lashes)**, Robert Wyatt
collaborator Alfreda Benge, Christopher Nell (legendary German performer and collaborator
of US theatre visionary Robert Wilson), and 14-year-old soprano prodigy Poppy Efemey.

Recorded with [**Ilya Lukashev**](https://lukashev.studio/) at [**Leno Studio**](http://lenorecords.com/#projects)
and [**Sano Studio**](https://www.facebook.com/p/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9D-%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A3%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%90Sano-Studio-100063716586882/)
in Tbilisi, this album was mastered to analogue tape by [**Paul Pascoe**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-pascoe-01076514/?originalSubdomain=ca)**(
Barry Adamson, Beat Hotel, Sleaford Mods)** at [**Church Road Studios**](https://www.churchroad.net/)
in Hove, Hudson collaborates with some incredible Georgian musicians and his friend**
Seva**, a Russian dissident who fled the FSB, having worked for Navalny. Hudson 
explains, “He contributes a poem narrating his thoughts on exile, through which 
I’ve layered field recordings of the recent Tbilisi and Paris protests, where many
of us got tear-gassed.”

Nick Hudson - For My Silence (Official Video)

[⌊Nick Hudson - For My Silence (Official Video)⌉⌊Nick Hudson - For My Silence (Official
Video)⌉
Watch this video on YouTube

**‘For My Silence’**

“Russia attempted to invade Georgia most recently in 2008 and we’ve seen a vast 
influx of Russians fleeing the conflict and resettling in Tbilisi (which endures
and suffers a pro-Russian government ideologically in conflict with most of its 
citizens). This geopolitical tension has inevitably made its way into the lyrical
and musical texture of the record via the songs** ‘Hollow Man’ **and **‘Sky Burial
While Alive’**. It also contains oligarch-hexing magic realism and a tribute to 
that vastly-neglected demographic – the old-school homosexual. Musically it encompasses
art rock, black metal, ambient music, agitprop folk, charred goth rock, symphonic
vastness and piano ballads -all infused with the energies and landscape of Georgia,”
says **Nick Hudson**.

Nick Hudson - Khevsureti (Official Video)

[⌊Nick Hudson - Khevsureti (Official Video)⌉⌊Nick Hudson - Khevsureti (Official 
Video)⌉
Watch this video on YouTube

**‘Khevsureti’**

In 2021, Hudson released his **[‘Font Of Human Fractures’](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/album/font-of-human-fractures)**
album and the [**‘K69996ROMA:EP’**](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/).
His band [**The Academy of Sun**](https://www.facebook.com/TheAcademyOfSun/) released
their opus album [**‘The Quiet Earth’**](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/album/the-quiet-earth)
the year before. He’s collaborated with such legends as **[Wayne Hussey (The Mission)](https://www.themissionmerch.com/product/wayne-hussey-the-divine-live-at-yellow-arch)**,**
Matthew Seligman (David Bowie, Tori Amos, Morrissey)**, **Massive Attack’s Shara
Nelson**, plus **David Tibet (Current 93)** and queercore icon **GB Jones**. His
vast output also encompasses painting, film and a novel.

[⌊Nick Hudson⌉⌊Nick Hudson⌉[

“As an album, [**‘Kanda Teenage Honey’**](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/album/kanda-teenage-honey)
explores ideas of preserving the sacred from the corrosively kleptocratic institutions
of church and state: spiritual and material kleptocracy.  The title itself refers
to a very real preservation of innocence derived from a story I heard of a local
villager whose teenage son was shot and killed: the father had his son’s body preserved
in honey. As such, there are secular hymns for peace and lucid stillness, tales 
of saints de-martyring themselves and falling in love free of judgement from anachronistic
scrutiny – a thinly veiled parable of queer love.  

“Two very close friends died within six months of each other during my first year
in Georgia – there are requiems in the songs **‘Archipelago’ **and **‘Bardo’**, 
plus an acappella tribute to the Siberian husky that helped me grieve them during
a retreat to the sublime mountainous region of [**‘Khevsureti’**](https://youtu.be/nz9rzb94dtk)
by the Chechen border, where despite being an ostensibly Orthodox country, pagan
traditions are still passionately observed.  I dreamed eighty-percent of ‘Bardo’
in the energised serenity of this beautiful region while mourning my friend Jesse.
Patrick, honoured in ‘Archipelago’, was one of my earliest mentors and a dynamically
brilliant pianist.  They are much missed,” explains **Nick Hudson**.

“**‘Ortolan’** references the summer of 2021, when I fled to the same Isle Of Wight
monastery at which Scott Walker had sought refuge in the sixties, as my mental and
physical health hit a nadir and I was forced to leave the city I’d called home for
twenty years.** ‘This Heat’** refers to a return journey from a plague necropolis
at the Chechen border, where giddily drunken park rangers piloting a 4X4 hurtled
us passengers down a treacherous mountain pass and I briefly thought it might be
the last song I’d ever write.  Since then, I’ve come to learn that Georgians are
some of the virtuosic drivers in the world, even drunk, and I need not have feared.”

Hudson also just released his book [**‘The Land Exists So The Seas Don’t Argue’**](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/merch/the-land-exists-so-the-seas-dont-argue-collected-lyrics-2013-2023-limited-edition-of-50-numbered-signed-copies),
showcasing a decade of lyrical output in five albums plus ephemera  – satellite 
poems that inhabit the same world as each of the primary cosmologies. With a foreword
by renowned Scottish author **Chris Kelso**, this collection embodies a searing 
intensity and unity of vision – paganism, queer love, grief, death, ecstasy, radical
politics, social satire, hymns to nature, her rhythms and forces.

As of March 15, ‘Kanda Teenage Honey’ is available via [**Bandcamp**](https://nickhudsonindustries.bandcamp.com/),
as well as other fine music platforms, such as [**Spotify**](https://open.spotify.com/artist/5t6l342JKBDVl2NFddWOJl?si=FVqRAZasQGOLbuRXNFioSQ)
and [**Apple Music**](https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/nick-hudson/280008410). 
On March 16, Hudson celebrates with an album launch concert in Tbilisi, Georgia,
which will be [**livestreamed**](http://www.facebook.com/events/381914011349149)
for those who cannot be there in person.

**CREDITS**
Composed, arranged and produced by Nick HudsonEngineered by Ilya Lukashev&
Nick Hudson at Leno and Sano Studios, TbilisiSteinway recorded by Ilya Lukashev &
George Gvarjaladze at Leno Studios, TbilisiMixed by Toby DriverMastered to analogue
tape by Paul Pascoe, Church Road Studios, HoveNick Hudson – piano. acoustic guitar
on 2, Faemi 1M, programming, vocals, foley, protest field recordingsBeqa Minadze–
electric guitarsGigi Koberidze – drumsGreg Massi – guitar on 4Lizzy Carey – all 
stringsToby Driver – hammered dulcimer on 10Poppy Efemey – soprano on 10Stuart Dahlquist–
bass on 13Samuel Gottlebe – classical guitar on 10, 12 and 15Kianna Blue – Issa 
G Thang on 13Alfreda Benge – cosmological rhetoric on 3Oliver Hill – guitar on 8Christopher
Nell – duet vocal on 12Stuart Braithwaite – black metal Ivor Cutler on 8Vsevolod
Osupov – poem and recitation on 11Oli Spleen, Kianna Blue and Jon Griffin – choir
on 9Ana-STASI-a – thelemic seduction on 14Wolfgang Dubieniec – mood on 3Videos directed,
filmed and edited by Nick Hudson‘For My Silence’ artwork by Kenneth Anger’Khevsureti’
cover painting by Berdia ArabuliAlbum artwork by Nick Hudson and Gary MallardArtist
photography by [@_Carl_Solomon_](https://www.instagram.com/_carl_solomon_/)Rings
featured in photos by [@Fauda.Silver](http://www.instagram.com/Fauda.Silver)

[⌊Nick Hudson⌉⌊Nick Hudson⌉[

**TRACK LIST**

 1.  Khevsureti
 2.  For My Silence
 3.  Sky Burial While Alive
 4.  Hollow Man
 5.  This Heat
 6.  Hachiko
 7.  Archipelago
 8.  Bardo
 9.  Hunters
 10. Unspent Youth
 11. Seva
 12. In Praise Of Venerable Jorge
 13. Catherine In The Curate’s Garden
 14. Ortolan
 15. Bad Ghost Vs Good Boy
 16. Danube Blues

**FOR FANS OF: **Tori Amos, Coil, Kate Bush, Laibach, Danny Elfman, Nico, Scott 
Walker, Nick Cave, These New Puritans, Eric Satie, Robert Wyatt

**Keep up with Nick Hudson / The Academy of Sun**
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| [Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/nick-hudson/280008410)

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