About
"A Phoenix, to be transformed, must burn!"
Music can be medicine
NghtPhnx has spent the better part of their life navigating joy and hardship through expression in both arts and the sciences. The journey of self-discovery is arduous, but the dark night of the soul can either be the undoing or the proving ground. NghtPhnx chooses to use love and pain as grist for the mill; becoming a loom of creativity through the use of music and the visual art as paint for the canvas of life. Sound and color are the vehicles by which NghtPhnx creates environments and moods where one can be transformed or lose themselves.
NghtPhnx's primary musical style comes from a love of Prince, Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell - see Prince’s songs "Ballad of Dorothy Parker" and "My Computer" and Kate Bush’s "Why Do I Love You" for clues to how these fantastic artists are connected. Add to that a mother who painted and sewed while listening to smooth jazz, country and pop (think Dolly Parton, Gloria Gaynor, Olivia Newton-John and Donna Summer) and a father who worked and studied to a background of funk and soul, (think James Brown, Miles Davis, Rick James, and Curtis Mayfield). NghtPhnx uses these influences to pepper an eclectic mixture of 80s New Wave and Hip-Hop, 90s House and Techno, and the queer culture and beats of the gay clubs and festivals of New York and Los Angeles. This creates a genre-bending style that goes beyond categories to bring the party and get the vibe turned up or sets a chill energy for that perfect backdrop to life's meaningful events. With NghtPhnx at the decks, you will hear their attention and intention in every mix.