Charlie Nieland

Charlie Nieland has been writing, playing and producing music for decades, with a focus on the atmospheric and imaginative. He played power dream pop with the band Her Vanished Grace for over 20 years before establishing himself as a solo artist with a mix of nuanced songwriting and sonic exploration. Along the way, Charlie wrote and produced material with Debbie Harry, Rufus Wainwright, Scissor Sisters and is currently half of the literature-inspired songwriting and performing duo Lusterlit with Susan Hwang. He scored the feature film THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS (starring Glen Close) and the VH-1documentary NY77:THE COOLEST YEAR IN HELL. 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.


"The themes of transcendence and the illusion of separateness emerged over the past year or so and, combined with a desire to revisit all the musical threads that have woven together in my life, snowballed into a thirst to see these songs come to life as widescreen musical produions.
As the pandemic took hold, so did my plan to produce Divisions. I wanted these tracks to be mini-epics, where you hear something new every time you listen. This whirlwind journey is heard here in the obsessive and passionate, surreal and visceral, dream-like progressive rock and dream pop of Divisions"