Steve Nieve – HuffPost 10.24.13

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists?

Steve Nieve: Well one of things I think is great about the last two projects is the involvement of new artists. On this record, there’s Tall Ulyss, a new French singer, and some other young people, because they come to things from a different viewpoint than someone like me who’s been through it, making music for thirty years. Sometimes, they’ll show you something you won’t believe and it’s very exciting, you know? They bring a sort of fearless energy to things. So I love that aspect of this project, I think Tall Ulyss, for example on the first track, pushed the sound into a completely new and exciting world that I’d never have the idea to go in. The same working with Joe; I love his band, Fiction Plane, but I’d never go anywhere near that world. Just working with people from different worlds is really enlightening and exquisite.