Nina Hynes

Nina has been playing with recorded sound since about the age of seven when she used to collect the tapes of bleeps from the heart machines in an hospital where her auntie worked. She used to record herself singing over the bleeps. She started the piano around this time also and wrote her first song at the age of eight. Since then, she has learned the guitar and her solo shows often incorporate live-layering and sampling using guitar pedals, spoons and whatever is at hand. She writes songs on guitar, piano, harp, computer or whatever instrument is lying around. She tours mostly solo but has been involved in many bands, instrumental, experimental, acoustic, electronic and electro rock.

Often, her shows are atmospheric using costumes and visuals edited live to the music. She has performed on over twenty compilations and releases and has collaborated with many people including the experimental French composer Hector Zazou and Brian Eno collaborator, Harold Budd. Actress and Singer, Jane Birkin (“Je t’aime”) has recently covered a song of Nina’s on a collaboration album with Hector Zazou. Her first solo release “Creation”(mini-album) was in 1999 and her subsequent debut album “Staros” in 2002. Both are critically acclaimed in Europe and America and have been released throughout Ireland and the USA, (where she has toured extensively). They are also available on Amazon.com and on many sites the Internet.

She releases hand-made limited edition Eps on her own label Transplant Records and in the last two years has begun touring solo around Europe. She is currently working on two albums and at college studying sound engineering and music technology.