Charlie Nieland has evolved a seamless mix of production, songwriting, musicianship and engineering with his own
solo material,
Her Vanished Grace,
Lusterlit with Susan Hwang,
Leslie Graves,
mtf8,
Joe Geni,
Ronan Conroy,
Oh Halo, with the film scoring collective
Emboznik and with the production team
Super Buddha with Barb Morrison.
Charlie has worked with
Rachelle Garniez,
John S. Hall,
Palmyra Delran,
Scissor Sisters,
Rufus Wainwright,
Debbie Harry (on her 2007 album
NECESSARY EVIL, which he co wrote and produced),
Blondie (co producing and writing three songs for their 2011 release
THE PANIC OF GIRLS) and has scored the films
THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS (starring Glen Close) and the documentary
NY77: THE COOLEST YEAR IN HELL.
Charlie's breadth of skills continues to grow, with mastery of many musical instruments, songwriting, arranging, video directing and all facets of modern recording technology. Most importantly he has the special ability to connect with and motivate the wide variety of artists that he works with. He specializes in bringing out atmosphere and emotion with his production to make musical cinema.
Charlie was awarded a Gold record (UK) for his production work on
Blondie's GREATEST HITS SIGHT & SOUND and achieved a
Top 10 Billboard Dance Chart Position with Debbie Harry's single
"Two Times Blue", which he co-wrote and produced.